Hmmmmm…

Something just occured to me. Basically – I want one of these….

It’s one of the new iMacs that I was wittering on about in my last post. I tried one today in the Apple premium reseller in Cardiff, and I’m smitten. Sad I know, but there we go. What I’m trying to work out is whether this machine (a Core 2 Duo-based monster) with XP and 2Gb of RAM, would be enough to successfully run my current recording software well.

I’d love more than anything to get rid of my big-box PC and replace it with a single one of these with a dual-boot of Windows XP and OS X. I’d use OS X for everything apart from the recording. The only reason I stick with Windows for the recording is that all the software I have for recording is Windows based, and having to rebuy everything on Mac would be prohibitively expensive, as well as being a total pain in the ass.

The main problem is that I’m not sure how good the architecture of the Mac is when it has Windows running on it. I’d need at least 2Gb RAM, which isn’t a problem, but I still dont know how well everything would run.

Obviously, I’d be using Windows drivers, but I dont know what potential problems there are for compatibility etc. Thing is, after a quick google, I’m none the wiser. Nobody seems to have tried this yet – or at least nobody seems to have documanted their attempts…

If anyone has tried this, please get in contact – I’d love to know how it went. Until then, I’ll keep looking.