It'll be well broke in 3 years, probably taking 5-10 minutes to boot up
Anyway Ian, ignore all the bootcamp gibberish, unless you need certain programs which are only available for windows, there is no reason to use it. I haven't used/set up bootcamp since I made the leap to iOS.
I only use Windows now because I have to, my accounts package isn't made for Mac so I run Windows 7 via Parallels, works a treat.