[X4U] Is there a Mac Pro list? (question about Windows under Boot Camp)

[Jim Robertson]

Macintouch's detailed review of the Mac Pro talks about one problem for
those of us who must run Windows - the fact that Windows (including Vista)
still uses an ancient process for connecting the OS to the hard drive
(BIOS). Apparently this affects the Mac Pro particularly, resulting in VERY
poor performance for applications that do lots of disk access, such as
Photoshop.

Macintouch's review was written quite some time ago, and there are some
discussions on Mac web forums suggesting that this problem has been resolved
with newer versions of Boot Camp, but I don't know for sure, and when I
asked at my local Apple Store, they basically said "duh..." or the
equivalent when I showed them the Macintouch review at

<http://www.macintouch.com/reviews/macpro/followup.html>

(read the part about Boot Camp).

I'm considering buying a computer to replace my PowerMac G5. I do a fair
amount in Photoshop (and will do it in the Mac OS with CS3), so I don't want
to step down in performance in the Mac OS (and I can take two of the SATA
drives I have in the dual G5 into the Mac Pro), but I'm not keen on having
crippled Windows OS performance (my work requires me to run web based
software that requires Internet Explorer for Windows - won't even run in
FireFox for Windows).

Anyone have knowledge of whether this is still a problem with the current
version of Boot Camp in Leopard. Alternatively, anyone know if there's a Mac
Pro listserv akin to this one?

Thanks so much,

Jim Robertson
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