Dual Booting Awesomeness.

So here is the plan. We want to replace at least two computers with a single, machine of awesomeness. But the main issue with that is the fact that one of the computers runs OS X and the other is running WinXP. WinXP is dead but the laptop is so slow that upgrading to Windows 7 is kind of useless. And the iMac is running out of gas. The 1 GB of RAM is keeping us from going anywhere. So here is the recipe for our machine of awesome:

One Intel CPU

One Intel compatible Motherboard

One GPU [NVIDIA or AMD]

One awesome computer case [In the works right now]

One power supply

One DVD burner

Two 60GB SSDs

One 2TB+ HDD

8GB RAM

The plan is to install OS X on one SSD, and Win7 on the other SSD. The larger hard disk will be used as a storage drive for music and documents and such. We want to keep OS X due to the software library we have. And Win7 for its general computing and networking abilities. What is unsure right now is the input handing. We could use the Magic Mouse and Mac keyboard. Or we could purchase a nice Logitech or Microsoft wireless desktop. Or we could use both. I would prefer to only use one set of input devices.. But it is not my choice. As for the monitor situation… Dual Monitors. We are thinking somewhere in the 20 inch range. This way we are actually gaining some screen space from the iMac monitor we are using at the moment. And I think with this setup, we might invest in the wireless print server. This way we never have to worry about the printer being offline. We want to have a nice, powerful machine that we can use for everyday computing tasks while utilizing the creative suite we purchased for OS X. And believe it or not, we love both operating systems. This way we can get the best of both worlds. Our goal is to get the best of both while replacing multiple machines. We got this.