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April 09, 2006
Pigs seen flying over frozen hell
Apple mooted all the hard work it took to get Windows XP to install and boot on the Intel Macs by releasing Boot Camp, a utility designed to aid installation of XP on a supported Intel Mac. Boot Camp includes Apple-provided XP drivers for the Mac hardware. A firmware update is required prior to running Boot Camp, which Apple considers beta and claims will be featured in some form in Mac OS X 10.5.
Boot Camp is all well and good, but no one really likes dual booting. Virtualization is the way to go, allowing a host operating system to run several different client systems simultaneously. To that end, Parallels has released a beta of its virtualization software for Intel Macs. The Parallels software allows Mac OS X to run various versions of Windows, Linux and BSD at near-native speeds in virtual machines, all without rebooting.
Posted by admorten at April 9, 2006 06:27 PM