“It works. Impressively well. With games, even. That’s our first impression of Windows XP running under Apple’s Boot Camp on our 20-inch iMac. And that’s more than you could say a couple of days ago about the promising-but-hacked-together WinXPonMac effort,” Eric Dahl reports for PC World. “XP on a Mac is refreshing, but Microsoft’s idea of an “exciting new look” feels a little last century.Eager to get our hands on a real, dual-booting Apple/Windows hybrid, we ran the Boot Camp installer on a 20-inch iMac and found the process amazingly smooth. It took about an hour. Graphics drivers–the major remaining performance hurdle under WinXPonMac–were solid and responsive under limited testing on our iMac.”
“I got right down to business and installed a few games to put the graphics and sound support to the test. The quick and dirty verdict on performance? Most impressive. Doom 3 and Far Cry both ran smoothly with high-end graphics options turned on,” Dahl reports. “So far, working in Windows on the Intel-based iMac has come off without a hitch: If not for the slicker-looking hardware, I’d think I was working on a standard Windows PC with a wide-screen monitor. And that’s exactly what you’d want from a usable dual-boot system. Firefox downloaded and installed flawlessly, and iTunes streamed songs easily from other PCs on the network. Both wired and wireless networking seemed fine. Little things, like the eject key on the Mac’s keyboard worked without a hiccup. Even automatic driver updates downloaded and installed easily. All in all, Boot Camp looks like an impressive effort from Apple.”
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