Apple has confounded a lot of people over the past ninety days. First, it rolled out Intel-based boxes with such fanfare in January that you'd have thought they had a sole lock on the dual Core Duos. And Apple did it without taking a penny in Intel marketing dollars – a testimonial to the cult-like following the firm has built among big-name technology writers who gush about how bug-free, virus-free, just-darn-happy the machines make them. During that time and afterward, Apple let a lot of people spin their heels on figuring out ways to run Windows XP on a Macinteltosh, dropping hints that it would be "bad karma" if you tried to bypass The One True Way of MacOS X. Vista After a couple of chaps demonstrated that, why yes, you could get the Intel-Mac to boot Win XP without having to run emulation – GASP! – Apple releases Boot Camp. Why, Apple even is so thoughtful as to provide the drivers for Win XP! GASP! It's user-friendly, too. Disinformation by Apple! DOUBLE-GASP! Perhaps the more interesting question is if Apple will find a way to successfully boot and run Windows Vista, but we'll find out that in the fall or shortly thereafter. Most likely, a Macinteltosh will be able to boot some of the simpler flavours of Vista without breaking a sweat. For those of you out there that think Apple should make Boot Camp boot a Linux version – you're on your own. Now that Apple has shown the way, there's likely to be a couple of utilities that allow multi-partition booting for Mac OS, Win OS, and the twelve flavours of Linux code geeks will port to the machine, but The Vast Majority of Users will be happy with the $99 Unix that comes with Apple hardware. You can read the rest Here.
