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Apple Boot Camp

Posted 04.7.2006 in Technology at 12:32 AM

I am by no means an “Internet pundit” on any issue, but a lot of my friends ask me what I think when Apple comes out with something new. I will write short posts when this happens and will link only to the best of what I see–there are plenty of other places to find links.

Earlier this week, Apple announced Boot Camp, beta software and instructions to run Windows XP on Intel-based Macs. In a nutshell, you can buy a new MacBook Pro laptop, Mac mini or iMac, install Windows XP with Boot Camp and have a computer that runs both Mac OS X and Windows XP natively. A “boot” screen appears on startup and you decide which operating system you want to run and away you go. Switching from one to the other requires a reboot.

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