How to set up AA3 on a mac with Boot Camp (radio production guys please take note!)

Hi,
I'm the imaging director for some of the Providence Citadel Stations and I want to move all of my production over from PC to a spiffy new iMac.
I know I can run AA3 through boot camp, but as of yet haven't purchased anything until I find out the best way to do this.
I'd love all of your suggestions on what to get and what set up is working for you. I'm done with PC's so don't even bother suggestion it!
My plan is to get an iMac, run boot camp and run windows XP (still available for $89 OEM version from new egg) and move all of my files over using a very large external drive.
Am I crazy?
By the way, the reason I'm doing this is that my current PC is starting to show signs of not being fast enough for AA3 and the plugins, etc.
Okay...I await your advice!
Thanks in advance.

Well, certainly your computer choice is personal - no issue with that - but to claim that a Mac is going to outperform a PC at a comparable price point is something that I don't believe can be verified.
I also build and upgrade my own systems and don't see any particular cost saving over an off-the-shelf model; I just do it because I can design the system exactly the way I want.
Boot Camp is an...interesting...idea but seems overly complicated. Why would anyone want to be required to boot back and forth between operating systems is beyond me, but that's a personal choice.
It just seems vastly more efficient to stick with Microsoft if you love Audition as much as you do. But, if you prefer the Mac OS, Pro Tools LE for the Mac and Apple's Logic are fantastic choices for recording and editing audio.
I'm not really trying to get you to consider PC over Mac but you've made a performance claim that I think has no basis in fact.
Like I said earlier: I run multiple audio editing programs on my PC (AA 3.0 among them) and these programs fly on my PC.

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