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I prefer and recommend dual boot with Boot Camp. It's not that difficult 
to reboot into the other OS when you need it. Running the two concurrently 
essentially cuts your hardware resources in half and that is going to be 
far more time consuming than a reboot. And Boot Camp is free, included 
with Mac OS 10.5. 

As for setting them up - it takes a real investment of time and brainpower 
to learn how to do this on multiple computers. If you were just doing one, 
it's pretty simple and straightforward - just make sure you make the 
Windows partition big enough at the start! You can't easily resize it 
later. But if you're going to set up one machine and then clone it to 
others, that takes a lot of trial and error and learning. Don't expect to 
get it done in a few days. 

Winclone is great (and free!) for cloning the Windows side from within the 
Mac OS: http://twocanoes.com/winclone/

NetRestore or Disk Utility, also free, are great for cloning the Mac side: 
http://www.bombich.com/software/netrestore.html and Applications/Utilities 
folder, respectively.

NetRestore is supposed to be able to clone the Windows side, but there's a 
whole chorus of techies including myself who couldn't make that work. 

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Technology Services
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Dear LLTIers,
 
We've purchased a few new 20" iMacs (2.66GHz Intel Core 2 Duo). We'd like 
to
install Windows XP and Fusion on one machine, mainly for demonstration 
purposes.
Fusion is supposed to make switching back and forth between the two 
operating
systems "seamless"--no rebooting necessary.
 
Can anybody provide Do's and Don'ts for installing Windows on this nice 
new Mac?
Is any preparation needed? Our machines are not managed by the 
university--we're
on our own.
 
Thank you.
 
David Pankratz
Loyola University Chicago
 
 
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