PC to Mac Transition - Basic Information

I am transitioning from a Dell XP to a Mac Pro 8 core and need some
basic information. When I format & install Leopard on the machine (which I will later partition with Boot Camp for XP) do I do it as
"journalled and extended"? Forgive me if I dont have the terms correct yet...just want to get started on the right foot.
Tom
PS I will also be installing FCP 6 on the Leopard side and CS3 on the
XP side, in case this has any bearing on the process.

A number of places to get you started:
http://www.apple.com/support/bootcamp/
http://www.apple.com/support/macpro/
http://www.apple.com/support/switch101/
The best book to get started and understand OS X:
http://books.slashdot.org/books/08/02/27/1551206.shtml
Unless you move (clone) your OS X boot drive to another (which a lot of people do, either now or later) you don't need to worry about format and in any case, just leave it as default.
Best boot drive, WD 640GB, 1TB drives:
http://www.barefeats.com/harper9.html
http://www.barefeats.com/harper14.html
http://www.barefeats.com/hard94.html
You might want to put XP on its own drive.
CS3 - nice to have add'l drives for scratch and data, along with more memory (3rd party), and to maximize memory bandwidth, fill all 8 DIMMs.
http://www.barefeats.com/harper12.html
http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/memory/Mac-Pro-Memory
Guide to Photoshop for OS X:
http://homepage.mac.com/boots911/.Public/PhotoshopAccelerationBasics2.4W.pdf
If you want to use more than 2GB memory, and use both cpus I would take a close look at Vista 64-bit Ultimate personally, which runs quite nicely on Mac Pro. You can't use a Dell version of XP, most OEM XP SP2 will, but not vendor-specific such as HP, Dell, etc.
The Help menu in Apple's Disk Utility, which you use to format, repair, create RAID, is a good start on documentation for how to use it (though it gets under-used by most).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_Utility

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