On 11/22/06 12:19 PM, "Bob R." <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Has anyone used the new G5 macs that run Windows XP?  If so, what do you think
> of 
> performance in both OSX and WinXP?  Is it noticably less in either OS vs. a
> regular Mac or 
> PC? I sampled one in a Mac store and noticed a definite sluggishness in mouse
> response 
> when it was in XP but not in OSX.
> 
> Thanks,
> Bob R.
> 

The only Macs that will actually boot into a Windows system are the Intel
models, not G5. Where I've used Boot Camp to install Windows, I've not
noticed latency issues that could compare with those observed when running
Windows in emulation on a G5 using Microsoft's Virtual PC, but I've not
installed with less than 2G memory. I have also used the Parallels
virtualization software, and my experience is that the interface runs more
smoothly when using Parallels than when actually booting into the Windows
environment installed using Boot Camp. Intel virtualization technology is
quite impressive.

-- 
Laine