Personal Computing

It’s Official: Intel Macs Will Run Windows XP

by J. Angelo Racoma
by J. Angelo Racoma 12 comments

Boot Camp

Yes, it’s official. Intel-based Apple computers will run Windows XP. And Apple will give you the drivers and will help you install XP on your machine (original, standalone installation copy needed, though). The system, dubbed Boot Camp, should be included in the upcoming Mac OS X Leopard, but a public Alpha edition has been released.

More and more people are buying and loving Macs. To make this choice simply irresistible, Apple will include technology in the next major release of Mac OS X, Leopard, that lets you install and run the Windows XP operating system on your Mac. Called Boot Camp (for now), you can download a public beta today.

Now this is earth-shaking news!

[via ForeverGeek]

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J. Angelo Racoma is an economist by profession and IT executive by occupation. He served the Philippine government for three years before moving on to join a leading firm in the local ICT industry. Having a passion for writing since his more youthful days, Angelo has been active in the online community since the time he operated his own Bulletin Board System (the Cyber County BBS) in the mid-1990’s, to actively participating in online tech forums, and now authoring his own blog, the J Spot, which he started late 2003. This personal publisher regularly and frequently posts commentaries on information technology, business, economics, politics and government, public relations, and family matters. A present personal advocacy is to increase local awareness and accessibility to alternative/I.P.-based means of content distribution. Angelo is married to educator Caren Marie Guevara, with whom he has two daughters, Sofia Bernice and Agatha Clarisse.

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raincontreras April 6, 2006 - 3:21 am

Have. To. Resist. Buying. A. Mac. Mini.

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J. Angelo Racoma April 6, 2006 - 3:48 am

Won’t even work on a Mac Mini. Try new iMac or MacBook Pro. That’ll set you back at least twice the cost of a mini.

Have. To. Resist.

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raincontreras April 6, 2006 - 4:47 am

Uh, bakit? Intel-based Mac daw e. May exclusion ba sa minis?

Then again, I did just buy a DSLR….

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hip2b2 April 6, 2006 - 8:11 am

This is nice marketing ploy by Apple.

I believe that this makes it easier for Apple newbies. They can have the comfort of knowing that they can boot to MS Windows at any time.

Then a few weeks down the road, the user will simply forget the MS Windows partition. Then a few months down the road, the user will be forced to erase the MS Windows partition to recover the space.

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banksxs April 6, 2006 - 8:13 am

so you connect the monitor to a mac mini? since i dont see any screen..

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Punzi April 6, 2006 - 8:13 am

I think it was just a matter of time given the Intel jump.

For Apple, I think it was a product integrity issue. They would rather do this themselves than leave it to the hackers. At least they protect the integrity of their hardware.

Hey! The new Mac Minis have Intel solo processors naman a. Why are they excluded from this?

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nox April 6, 2006 - 3:15 pm

I think I hear John Dvorak laughing somewhere…

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J. Angelo Racoma April 6, 2006 - 3:47 pm

“Hey! The new Mac Minis have Intel solo processors naman a. Why are they excluded from this?”

Ah, meron na pala. Ahehe. 😉 So pwede na rin pala mini. [drooling with desire]

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Mike April 6, 2006 - 5:59 pm

Now that’s thinking different.

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Punzi April 6, 2006 - 7:39 pm

I’m sorry. I stand corrected. The Mac Minis have Intel Core Duo processors also… not core solos.

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