MacBook and Windows

Hey,
I have been browsing the forums, particularly this section for quite a while now. Some information has been useful, but I kind-of need some specific advice now.
I've been a Windows user since May this year when I got the new 2.4GHz MacBook. Mac OS X is fantastic, and the sleekness and features the MacBook provides makes me want to stay up all night just to play with it. But I've probably spent £150+ on games throughout the time I used Windows, and it would be a shame to have all my old favourites lieing around useless. So this is where the situation begins.
I have 160GB on my MacBook (Considering an upgrade to 320GB), and I have allocated 25GB to my Windows XP. No problems with Boot Camp or anything, but I need to run my games on Windows. I have the following games on my Windows XP and they work flawlessly:
- Trackmania United Forever
- Rollercoaster Tycoon 3
- Some old GameHouse games I collected
- Deus EX
- Forsaken
- Call Of Duty
It all sounds well and good, but I want to futureproof myself and install Vista on the MacBook. I used to have Vista Ultimate on a 30GB partition on there, but I recently found myself with no space left. With Vista though, Half Life 2 and Counter Strike: Source were working brilliantly, Age Of Mythology installed, and the Sims 2 was working great. Three of my favourite games no doubt, but Vista takes up so much space I could never have them all on. I was wondering if I should put Vista Home Premium on my MacBook and allocate more space to the Boot Camp partition, that way I might have more space to live with. But then arises the problem of possibly not having enough space on OS X. Ahh!
Any ideas?
Sorry for the long post, but this is a big problem for me (I'm installing games for my holiday on saturday)
Regards,
Alex

Apple has stated that they will not go out of their way to prevent people from running Windows on Macs with Intel processors. That said, there are plenty of design decisions that could have been made that didn't "deliberately" break Windows compatibility, but nevertheless made it very difficult to run Windows. I don't think, for example, that running a dual boot Windows/OS X Mac will ever be as easy as running a dual boot Windows/Linux PC. Installing Windows on a Mac will likely be nontrivial, and Apple certainly won't provide technical support for it.
Short version: no one really knows yet.

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