Wow, thanks Dan. I have owned my iBook G4 for 3 months now and love it but was not convinced that I could drag my family into the "MAC" world. Our home PC is a 4 year old Dell and is behaving like its ready to go west so I have trying to sell the MAC idea to the wife who needs alot of the Windows programs. Can't wait to show her all these replies. Thanks again for your input, Mark
On 9/17/06, Dan Johnson <danj at epicentertech.biz> wrote: > > On Sep 17, 2006, at 5:01 AM, Mark Heaton wrote: > > > Hello everyone, new to the group, glad to here. I am just about to > > pull the trigger on the new 24" iMac, will it run XP via "Bootcamp" or > > the software "Parallels" better? > > Mark, > Here's my opinion on the subject... I have the 20" dual core iMac and > I've configured it to run XP and OS-X using BootCamp. The reason I > didn't use Parallels is that the graphics performance on Parallels > suffers a bit compared to XP running with BootCamp. The drawback is > that you do have to reboot to use XP. So if you aren't planning to play > games or use graphics intensive PC apps Parallels is probably OK but if > you want the most out of your graphics chip BootCamp is the better > approach. There are a few sites on the net that compare Parallels > performance to the BootCamp approach but unfortunately I didn't save > any of the URLs. One other thing to note is that you have to manually > reset the XP clock once you reboot to run XP when using BootCamp. It's > kind of a pain.. but other than that I really like the setup. I use my > iMac for music production and video work so being able to run PC and > Mac apps at maximum warp has been great! I'm starting to see more of my > friends transition from PCs to Macs now that the Intel hardware is out > there! After seeing the Vista OS pricing I think more people will be > making the transition. > > One other note, the ATI drivers for XP let you switch between Direct X > and OpenGL so you can really fine tune the graphics performance. In > general I find that I'm getting better over-all performance using XP > with the OpenGL drivers. That's pretty application dependent but I > encourage you to experiment a bit once you get your machine. Be sure to > set up your firewall and install virus tools on the XP side too. Enjoy > your new machine, I love mine.... > > Dan > > ============================================================== > Dan Johnson, Cell Phone: (859) 533-2458, Skype VoIP: VRMAD1 > Web sites - http://bitbucket.EpicenterTech.biz, > http://EpicenterTech.biz > E-mail: vrmad1 at gmail.com, AIM / iChat: VRMAD1, MSN: vrmad1 at hotmail.com > ISPQ Video Conferencing: VRMAD1 (www.ispq.com), VRMAD1(there.com) > ============================================================== > > > > _______________________________________________ > The next Louisville Computer Society meeting is September 26. > Posting address: MacGroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu > Information: http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup > > > _______________________________________________ The next Louisville Computer Society meeting is September 26. Posting address: MacGroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu Information: http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
