Yes, a month or so ago some creative hackers figured out a way to get Macs with Intel hardware to boot into Windows XP. Their method worked, but certainly wasn’t pretty. The difficulty involved in using their method meant that only those who really really wanted to do it could.
Apple today announced their product “BootCamp” – available now to download for free. This will allow anyone to run Windows on an Intel Mac.
In other news: Michael Dell pooped his pants.
WOW
so much for their not ever going to do it…
that is really cool
Apple now must work hard to make their OS easy to develop on, more user friendly, and faster than Windows. Otherwise, this may kill development for OS X…
I think they are betting that once people get OS X and XP installed on the same machine, they will slowly realize that OS X is a much nicer operating system, and will just ditch XP unless they absolutely have to use it.
Of course – this will likely stunt development on OS X for gaming… ports
If Apple had any decent Intel boxes out, it would be tempting to buy one for gaming… but until they get a pro machine that is better than the G5 tower, it’s not really a big deal…
I am still sad that Apple is leavin the Power architecture – because from a geek/nerd standpoint it is a superior instruction-set architecture, and has cool features that Intel only dreams about… And I’m also sad that they went with Intel instead of AMD – but they obviously had their reasons.