[pardaughters]

I'm using a Macbook Pro, 2.16ghz Core 2 duo. I partitioned my harddrive using boot camp and run Windows XP primarily for music software.

All sound, even booting Windows XP "chimes", crackles and glitches. I write music using computer software (acidpro, reason...), and though I'm growing more familiar with osx applications, which run fine on this machine, there are still some core Windows apps that I was hoping would run smoother on my new notebook.

I am not so defeated as to surrender to the idea that windows xp just runs poorer on the macbook pro as I have a friend using a Boot Camp partitioned Windows XP on the same model Macbook Pro as mine, running multiples of the same music software apps that stutter on my setup. On his mbp they run flawlessly. It frustrates me to no end that my new pristine laptop hinders and fumbles where his excels even though his setup mirrors mine exactly.

I have talked to apple, waited at the genius bar, only to be turned away as boot camp (being beta) and especially windows xp are not "supported".

PLEASE any help or suggestions would be vastly appreciated!

Thank You