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Submitted by Prometheus 6 on April 6, 2006 - 7:34am.
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Have Your Mac and Windows XP, Too
By Rob Pegoraro
Thursday, April 6, 2006; D01

Good news for Microsoft: It's just gained access to a new base of customers who need to pick up their own copy of Windows XP.

Bad news for Apple: A Mac can now get any of the viruses, worms and spyware that afflict Windows machines.

Terrific news for indecisive computer shoppers: They no longer have to choose between getting a Mac or a Windows machine, because an Intel-based Mac can be both.

All these developments come courtesy of a new, free program Apple released yesterday. Boot Camp makes what was once impossible, then mind-numbingly difficult, easy: You can put a copy of Windows XP on a Mac, then choose to run either XP or Apple's Mac OS X at each start-up.

This isn't like running a copy of Windows inside emulation software such as Microsoft's Virtual PC; XP runs as fast as if it were on a "real" PC, thanks to the Intel processors inside Apple's Mac mini, iMac and MacBook Pro.

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Rob Pegoraro continues to
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on April 7, 2006 - 8:47pm.
Rob Pegoraro continues to slant anything he can so that it reflects on Bill Gates wife who is the Chairman of the Board at the Post.  He has totally knuckled under during the last year and his closing remark really shows it.  He ignored a local to him technology company that has released a $50 emulator that runs under OSX that will outperform M$'s product.  Before anyone goes to the stupidity of using the 15 year old technology in Boot Camp, they should investigate Parallels.com to see how to keep the security of OSX or Linux, and put M$'s buggy, bloated OSs in a safe place - a window on their desktop under the control of a real OS.