24" imac 3.06ghz owners ???

[steveo]

just looking for some advice on one of these machines with the 8800gs cards in them as i have been looking at getting my first apple machine. now the reason i would get one of these is that it would have to last me years as there is no way i could afford another one next year or some thing when the new models come out.

i plan on using bootcamp at first so i can slowly start to come of the windows programs i use for work and home and start the transition with ease, now my first question is would it be possible to use a external hard drive to put xp on via bootcamp and install all programs and games on that and leave the internal 1tb (getting it upgraded) to osx and apple programs,

the other reason i plan to get the 8800gs version is for gaming via bootcamp (tf2,cod4 and dawn of war 2 when its released) how easy is it to set up the imac to game via xp and what games is the imac capable of playing,

also plan on upgrading the ram myself as theres no way i will pay for that with apple

 

[steveo]

cheers for that guys think i will just use the externals for storage and keep 20gb for a partition of xp, so the 1tb will come in handy then, didnt think about the warrant void for the ram but is the memory not user upgradeable anyway so the warrenty should be ok, i was going to get the corsair ram from some where else unless the sticks the ocuk sell are good enough