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Quote:Despite Apple Computer's historic disdain for Microsoft's Windows operating system, Apple's Boot Camp software lets Windows applications run just as well on a Mac as they do on a PC, performance tests confirm.

According to tests carried out by CNET product reviewers, a MacBook Pro and iMac running Intel's Core Duo processor and Windows XP delivers equal performance to similarly configured PCs designed to run Windows. On Wednesday, Apple released a beta version of Boot Camp, an application that lets Mac users run the Windows XP operating system on their Macs...

full article: http://news.com.com/Macs+do+Windows+with...g=nefd.top

Quote:With Boot Camp, Intel-based Mac users can choose between running Mac OS or Windows XP each time they boot their system...

"This solves a lot of potential holdups to Macintosh adoption...," JupiterResearch analyst Michael Gartenberg wrote in a blog posting Wednesday.

"Overall, (this is) a nice tactical move by Apple that will make their platforms and systems much more attractive,"...

full article: http://news.com.com/Apple+Windows+on+a+M...tml?tag=nl
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Quote:Over on the Apple.com discussion boards, a number of people are reporting that Boot Camp--Apple's new software that allows Intel-based Mac owners to install Windows XP--is causing some serious problems.

To be precise, the common crisis is that after partitioning their hard drives and installing Windows XP--which seems to work fine--these people find they can no longer boot back into OS X...

full article: http://news.com.com/2061-10793_3-6059694.html?part=rss&tag=6059694&subj=news

Ahh the ultimate Windows trojanĀ  Laughing7
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