XP's familiar, pixelated installation process went normally, and the Boot Camp manual provided intelligent directions about how to tell XP which partition to use and how to format that partition. I chose to give XP a 100GB partition and inserted my XP Service Pack 2 CD to begin the installation process. Once you've properly updated your system, you can download, install, and run Boot Camp Assistant, which burns a CD of Windows drivers for you and walks you through the process of repartitioning your Mac and installing Windows XP. (See our gaming tests results at the end of this story.)īoot Camp requires the latest version of Mac OS X (version 10.4.6) and a firmware update (a very loud, un-Mac-like system beep is normal at the start of this process). Graphics drivers-the major remaining performance hurdle under WinXPonMac-were solid and responsive under limited testing on our iMac. When we ran the Boot Camp installer on a 20-inch iMac and found the process amazingly smooth. And an Acer TravelMate 8200 that had more RAM (2GB versus the iMac's 1GB) scored a 100. To put this in perspective, an HP Compaq nx9420 that we recently tested, which had a slightly faster processor (2.16-GHZ Core Duo versus the iMac's 2-GHz Core Duo), garnered a Worldbench 5 score of 101, Kirschling said. Update (4/7/06): The overall WorldBench 5 score for the iMac was 96, slightly at the low end of what we've seen for systems with the same processor, according to Senior Performance Analyst Elliott Kirschling. And that's more than you could say a couple of days ago about the promising-but-hacked-together WinXPonMac effort. You can see our detailed test results below, but that's our first impression of Windows XP running under Apple's Boot Camp on our 20-inch iMac.
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