When You read the fine print you see that the laptops have 256 MB of VRAM while the imac has just 128. and it beats the HP. this seems really promising for the Mac-Intel towers. then the comparison will be more interesting when you can see the same card with the same amount of ram. also i would like to the the MINI vs. Wintel with the INTEL graphics... i am kinda sad i bought my mini back in the fall.
Sean

That's about what I'd expect given the system configurations. The iMac is only a few frames slower than the fastest machine in the bunch. Realistically, a few frames per second isn't going to be noticeable by most players.

I wonder if iTunes running on the Windows and Mac partitions are counted as two of the five permitted machines under the iTunes license...

Seeing as iTunes is a free download for both platforms, does it really matter?

"Seeing as iTunes is a free download for both platforms, does it really matter?"

Yes, because it's not about the software itself. Suppose at home you have a family using a LAN of five computers -- each running iTunes. Apple's EULA (for iTMS) allows music sharing among these five computers, but suppose on one you install Boot Camp and Windows -- and then run iTunes there as well. Would this be considered a sixth use, even though it's not actually an additional computer?

Thiis is the question as I understand it.

I'm saying that you can have iTunes installed on as many computers as you like. But as I understand the iTMS user policies, music you have downloaded from that particular source can be shared on a LAN (or outside a LAN, for that matter) only among five computers. This is why it is necessary to de-authorize one computer before newly authorizing another (once you have hit that five-computer limit).

For example, I have authorized my mother's computer to listen to certain AAC files I have purchased from iTMS. She lives 250 miles from me but her computer is one of only two which has such authorization. That gives me three others. But when I hit that limit of five, then I need either to de-authorize one of the computers or just make my peace with the whole DRM thing, (which readers of these forums will know I'm not inclined to do in any event).

So the introduction of Windows and OS X dual-boot capability raises some interesting implications in this regard. It's still one box but it may represent two or more platforms. I think Apple will need to make allowance for this in future versions of iTunes -- and perhaps in other software as well.