You like macs, but know Windows XP is the standard.

[Sgt. Monocle]

Enough rubbish about people getting XP running on the new apple computational boxes with 'hacked' approaches.

Apple will now allow you to officially boot XP on a Macintosh:
http://www.apple.com/macosx/bootcamp/

[Gusto]

anyone wanna trade a powerpc g4 ibook for an intel macbook? thanks.

[dj_soo]

^ yea, me too

[b0ld]

beats the whole point of being an Apple IMO....
gayest stupidest shit ever

[dj_soo]

^ why? The program basically allows you to run both OSs on the same computer. You can stay on OS X until you absolutely need to use a program on windows, reboot and voila, you're in windoze...

[b0ld]

ya however running this... how will this affect the load off the cpu,fsb and ram?

[dj_soo]

won't affect it at all as it requires a reboot. It's not like you're running them simultanesouly.

People have been doing this for years with Linux/windows.

[Gusto]

its basically just a boot manager/installer, it doesn't run in the background all the time or anything. so yeah, i'd imagine it has no effect really.

[MissBehavior]

Holy. Crap.

*PINES for a MacBook*

[FeelGood]

that's actually VERY VERY convenient.

[clevich]

thats awesome. next lappy is going to be one of those!

[Leviathan]

All it really means is I can now run more games on my Mac :) Other than that I'll run OS X anyday over XP. Whats cool, is they are talking about being able to run windows apps inside of OS X natively without a reboot in the next OS (Leopard)

[Revolver]

Originally Posted by Leviathan

All it really means is I can now run more games on my Mac :) Other than that I'll run OS X anyday over XP. Whats cool, is they are talking about being able to run windows apps inside of OS X natively without a reboot in the next OS (Leopard)

thats exactly what im looking forward to.

windows XP can shrivile up and die for all i care. the only reason i keep a secondary pc along my mac is for pc specific soundforge.

as soon as leopard drops ill drop my PC out the window.