Windows Different
This is huge.
First, Apple moves to Intel processors, start making computers no longer different (under the skin) from the others, and now the dual boot, officially supported!
Apple releases Boot Camp. With this application it will be possible to obtain a dual boot machine, on the new Mac Intel inside. You’ll be able to create a second partition, and to install (with assistance) Windows XP on it. The application is still beta (you can download it from that given link), and it will be included in the new release of the OS X 10.5, where virtualisation of the resources will be fully implemented.
Apple say they’ll not support the installation of Windows via Boot Camp, nor any Windows issue (with also a disclaimer: keep your windows system safe with antiviruses… mac users are not used to this 
). But now you’ll be able to run AutoCAD, structural analysis programs, and games, and so on.
Switch will be easier. Moreover, it will be a way to test how really good Mac OS X is, eventually (y)
(thanks to tevac for these images).
April 5th, 2006 at 7:06 pm
Word to the Wise (this is what appears on apple’s site):
Windows running on a Mac is like Windows running on a PC. That means it’ll be subject to the same attacks that plague the Windows world. So be sure to keep it updated with the latest Microsoft Windows security fixes.
April 6th, 2006 at 8:53 am
this must be the same reasoning they did at apple: all the windows user will just start think about it… in a remote part of their brain, but the ‘apple bug’ is there :[
April 6th, 2006 at 9:30 am
Now I haven’t any good reason to not make the switch.
I will surely buy a laptop in the next months. A Macbookpro would be a good choice.
Ahhhh Autocad, XSI on a mac… Cool.
But I think I will wait a little (just to have the money and wait for the new OS release wich will include this dual boot software)… And Maybe the price will be a bit little lower: 2200 Euros for a 15” laptop, that’s a bit much…
April 7th, 2006 at 8:50 am
Well, we might wait a little, since people will have to buy separately a windows license…
After that, benchmarks will show some facts, but I think if I buy a mac laptop, that’s not for his power, but for his design…
Moreover, maybe we will see that some softwares will be quicker on windows than on MacOS… But I don’t think it will change your mind about MacOS, so speed is surely not a good argument… It’s more about interface and habits.
But that’s a chance to let mac appear as an alternative of… linux
Some company developp their professionnal software on linux, but not on mac.
With an Intel based processor, it will be easier, with a growing number of mac owners, it will be much more interesting for them.
The great deal is to know if it will be enough to intend company developp on mac OS, or if they will just developp on windows with specific optimizations with macintel processors… :/
Well, The fact is mac hardware looks very good, MacOS seems to be very interesting and efficient, and maybe in the next months I will make the switch… Learn how to program, and create my own AutoCAD on mac
Think about a world with only mac owners, and a little company that is trying to make a change… Microsoft!!!
April 7th, 2006 at 9:42 pm
Ah ah ah, That’s a great picture to see that windows is able to crash a mac!!!
You see now the superiority of micorsoft OS; they are able to do something apple is not able to do…