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Now Macs can do Windows Too!

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XP on MacBook Pro While visiting my most favorite forum in the whole wide world today, I was greeted by the best news I've had in weeks: Intel-based Macs can now boot Windows officially! No more hacks, no more work arounds and no more jumping through hoops. All a Mac user needs to do is download Apple's Boot Camp. This sure is a real welcome news for me because my iBook is due for a replacement and I was actually contemplating on getting a Windows laptop because I need it to do my job. Using my iBook in a "Microsoftified" company is a big job for me because I have to make a lot of adjustments to make things work. Being a systems administrator helped a lot because all the settings that I need to make my Mac work in my network can be done by me. However, accessing Windows-only applications can be a real pain because I had to connect my iBook to my Desktop Windows PC using Remote Desktop Controller to do it. With Apple's Boot Camp, I can do this natively -- well not immediately because my current iBook still has a PPC CPU (not the Intel CPU the newer Macs have) but I can be assured that even if my next computer will still be an Apple, my problem of connecting to Windows-centric networks will be a thing of the past. But this is not the only good news, the *real* good news is that the functionality of Boot Camp will be built-in to the next iteration of OS X (Leopard)!
A couple of weeks after the release of an unofficial patch that allows Intel-based Macs to run Windows, Apple releases Boot Camp -- a collection of utilities and drivers that allows Intel-based Mac users to officially boot Windows on their Macs.

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What does this move implies towards Apple's future? It looks very very rosy - not that I like to install Windows on my Mac.

Read this and find out why.

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Hmmm. So it can now do Microsoft, Mac and Linux. Interesting! The next questions now would be:
- Do I really need a Mac OS?
- Should I stick to my plans to buy the Lenovo/IBM z60m or just got for the Mac iBook?
- Should I use the Mac OS for my Java development projects? And Zope/Plone. And Apache. And... well... you get the idea.

This would also mean that I need to get a DSLR! :o

Sorry for the wrong link. *blush*

Here you go.

So what does this technology stunt prove? If I buy a mac, its because I want to buy a mac. I don't see the economics of booting windows in a macintosh.

looks like Apple wants to bite into Microsoft's territory and revenue now.

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