Apple Mac Pro fastest Windows XP PC ever

PC PRO magazine has decided that the Apple Mac Pro is the fastest Windows XP PC in the UK.

The magazine compared a quad core Apple Mac Pro Macinteltosh with other PCs in the same price range and it broke all records.

The first thing the reviewers did was ignore the the pre-installed copy of Mac OS X and run Windows XP Professional on the machine using Apple's Boot Camp beta.

Once the machine was free of its Unix based software, the beast soared. It managed record-breaking speeds in a PC Pro multiple applications test. It could run Microsoft Office, Photoshop and a music decoder at high speeds simultaneously.

The reviews said that the results spoke volumes about for the ability of Intel's new 3GHz Xeon 5160 processors more than anything else.

Not something that the Apple faithful want to hear much. If you have just under £5,000 to spend on a good Windows XP machine it looks like you should buy an Apple and ditch the operating system.

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