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I still don't fully get it, but what I found pointed to NTFS as the better choice. Much Googling was done before I proceeded. This concerned me, since I wasn't really sure what they meant by that.

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However, the installer warns that NTFS is not good if you want your Mac OS to be able to read the files in the Windows partition. I know from my Windows experience that NTFS is better for XP because it allows more advanced security features like encryption, and in general is better for stability. The other decision is one I wasn't expecting: you have to decide if you want the partition formatted in FAT32 or NTFS.

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I picked 20GB for Windows, as I don't really want to take too much space away from OS X, but I think 20GB will be enough to install a decent amount of games, which is all the XP partition will really need to hold. Thankfully, you can do this without erasing the whole drive.

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The install software will guide you through the process of partitioning your hard drive to make a partition for Windows. It was certainly fast enough to feel like a real computer, not like the slow-motion experience of running VPC.ДЄbout a week later, I had my XP disk and some games from home sent up to me, and installed XP under Boot Camp. So that's how I first tried Windows on the MBP, running my old VPC image. I did have Virtual PC running on my Powerbook, and was happy to find out that VPC disk images can be easily converted to run on Parallels. I was stupid when packing for the summer and didn't bring my Windows XP install disk from home, even though it was obvious I'd be getting a MBP at some point over the summer and would need this to install Windows with Boot Camp. Parallels was the first to come out with a solution, and I didn't really become aware of VMWare's Fusion until I began seriously researching this after buying the MBP. I knew that Boot Camp was the best method for running games, because it addresses the actual computer and all its resources, but I knew I'd also want virtualization software so that I could quickly access Windows while getting actual work done. So now that I finally have one, I've been catching up on all the options available and playing around with it. Having a Mac laptop running Windows fast enough to play games is something I've been looking forward to as long as we've known about Apple's switch to Intel.

So I quickly got tired of throwing my money away on such crap and decided I would be better off building a PC and having access to all the games I wanted, I just couldn't play when away from home.

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If the same problems existed in PC games there would be a patch out immediately. And from what I can tell, the developers don't care, because there's no competition (it was basically Aspyr and Macsoft), and so few people playing the games that it really doesn't matter. They're buggy, they're slow, and in general don't play as well as the PC version. I knew this going in, but what distressed me even more as I came to own more Mac games, is that the few ported PC games there are are usually terrible ports. When I first switched to Mac I tried to like the games, but the selection is limited to only the few most popular PC games, and they usually aren't released until long after PC users have tired of them and moved on to something better. I have a gaming PC (which I swear one of these days I'll actually make a post about), but since my primary computer has to be a laptop because of my job, and a Mac because of my sanity, the prospect of taking my games with me was previously an impossibility.

The one thing I use Windows for on a regular basis is gaming. I have always owned Virtual PC as long as I've been a Mac user, just because every now and then I'd find something that absolutely couldn't be done without a PC (not your everyday tasks, but things like flashing a hacked ROM onto my cell phone). One of the reasons I was originally excited about Apple's switch to Intel processors was the prospect of running Windows at a reasonable speed on my Mac.