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There are some interesting figures in this Mac Mini review. The reviewer creates a dual boot with the Mac Mini. Has OSX as well as XP on the same Mac Mini. The interesting part is the benchmarks.

http://lifestyle.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=5900&page=1

What's weird is that Quicktime Pro conversions / tasks are faster in the XP version than the OSX version on the exact same Mac Mini. There are other flattering benchmarks for XP on the Mac platform.

In other words, if anyone wants a great bridge system where they want the elegance of OSX / Apple hardware, and the mainstream of the PC, Apple has a strong solution. You won't suffer at all with XP on a Mac. And once Adobe releases their products for the new Macs for OSX, things should get fast again for Apple design software. I think this is a brilliant move by Apple. At least from a hardware point of view.

Apple really needs to improve the speed of their native apps like QT Pro for OSX though. Slower Adobe products make sense because of the emulation, but native apps that Apple has bragged about.... Being faster on XP is kind of embarrassing.

My next system will be a dual core Mac to be sure. So go out and get a Mac if not having the best of both worlds was an issue before that was holding you back. Very Happy

Brian
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