| There's no good reason to run XP on a Mac unless you have an unhealthy obsession with Macs.
Mac hardware isn't that amazing for its price (it's good, but expensive as hell to go along with that); the only real draw for Macs is MacOS, which is a very good operating system. To use XP on a Mac kind of defeats the purpose of having a Mac - unless your friend is just dual booting in order to use XP for things the Mac can't do (games, etc.).
However, to answer your question - yes, it is viable. I don't think it would slow down the computer to be dual-booting, but I'm not totally sure on the performance differences between MacOS and XP. |