I agree the performance increase won't be huge. But if I'm going to spend most of my time in one OS vs. the other, then I figure I might as well maximize the performance of the one I'm going to use most.
As for inner vs. outer: yes, the outer one is supposed to provide a higher transfer...
I'm considering purchasing a black previous-generation MacBook and would like to dual-boot Windows XP and Leopard. Since I expect to spend most of my time in XP, I would like to have the NTFS partition be the first one on the drive, in order to get the best performance.
From what I've read...