Windows on Mac with Apple’s blessing

April 5th, 2006 | by Tim Wilson |

For most of us who use Macs, OS X is the reason why. Sure, the hardware is beautiful to look at, but that’s just eye candy without having powerful applications available. So when Apple announced their transition to Intel chips last year and the buzz began about the possibility of running Microsoft Windows on Apple hardware, I was one of many people who were probably wondering why anyone would want to do that.

But as soon as the Intel-based Macs became available, the race was on. One contest sprang up and quickly established a $13,000 bounty for the first person to get XP running on a Mac. The prize was claimed pretty quickly and the process of getting Windows installed, though long and complicated, got easier as more and more drivers became available.

Everything changed today. Apple announced Boot Camp and things just got a lot more interesting. From the site: “Once you’ve completed Boot Camp, simply hold down the option key at startup to choose between Mac OS X and Windows. (That’s the “alt” key for you longtime Windows users.) After starting up, your Mac runs Windows completely natively. Simply restart to come back to Mac.”

So you’ve been wanting to try podcasting with GarageBand, but you’re “stuck” running Windows? You can now buy a Mac and dual-boot Windows and OS X. Pretty cool.

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  1. One Response to “Windows on Mac with Apple’s blessing”

  2. By Will Richardson on Apr 6, 2006 | Reply

    So let me know when they can dual boot Windows for Tablet PC… ;0)

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