Reply to how do you sync maschine and traktor?

been a topic of interest over last while, mainly because I am yet to find an elegant solution on a Win 7 PC

so far my assumptions as best practice are:
1) use a mac/osx as it deals with midi clock the best
2) only play very consistent techno minimal style EDM, don't be stopping and starting all the time
3) if one must use windows, manually sync and map host DAW nudge and maybe pitch controls to another midi controller (because chopping and changing in and out of maschine midi mode can be a pain).

interested to hear from those having success syncing the two:
- does it go out of sync over time? how do you deal with this?
- what is your ms latency offset?
- if manually syncing how do you deal with maschine's lack of nudge control?
- what type of music are you doing this with?