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Abotu Boot camp. In their press release apple mentioned two things
* Their loader is superior to the old BIOS system
* Boot camp essentially emulates a BIOS
Now, i can understand windows running faster on a mac than an indentical spec pc, simply because macs are streamlined for OS-efficiency (because, well, face it, there's not much else they're useful for), but there's a few problems i have with the whole boot camp thing. First off, it's emulating a bios, so obviously it'll run slower than having an actual bios chip, so there goes any hardware advantage. For the same price as a very-low end intel mac, i could have a mid to high spec gaming pc, which eliminates any more hardware advantage it may have. A PC is designed to run windows (well, at least mine is, every component had "designed for windows xp" on the box), so obviously it will run faster than on a mac.
So frankly; it's cheaper to just buy a pc rather than risking -blam!- up your expensive mac with an os that will run slower anyway.