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April 13, 2006

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Computerworld on installing XP to an Intel Mac

Authored by Cyrus Farivar at 10:04 AM
Category | Software » XP on Mac

XP on Mac From our sister publication Computerworld (and yes, Macworld has several sister publications -- they're all linked at the bottom of this page) comes this piece from Scott Finnie, Computerworld's editorial director:

The first thing you'll notice about running Windows XP on an Intel-based Macintosh is how very fast it is. This is the way Windows XP was meant to perform. It may not sound like a good thing to some people, but after only a few minutes of working with Boot Camp-installed XP, you may entirely forget that you're using a Mac. Windows XP works exactly like it should when Boot Camp installs it.

There's a few more choice excerpts after the jump. Click the link above if you want to read the whole thing.


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When you look at Apple's stars over the past few years, they seem to line up, pointing to a strategy. Apple develops Mac OS X, an operating system that is underpinned by the ever-portable Unix. Apple fixes the problems with Mac OS X and networking in a Windows environment, arguably the first time Macs and Windows PCs became easy to integrate on a small peer LAN. Apple announces that it's dumping PowerPC processors in favor of Intel CPUs for all future Macs. First-quarter 2006: Apple rolls out about half its Mac product line with Intel CPUs, ahead of schedule. It affirms its commitment to finish the job by the end of the year. April 2006: Apple releases a stable beta of a utility that allows you to install Windows XP and run it natively on Intel-based Macs. What's Apple's next step? The company certainly has my attention.

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I don't know about you, but I'm tired of the lack of viable competitors to Microsoft's Windows operating system. Windows has improved significantly in this decade. Windows Vista also appears to be a major upgrade, well worth consideration. But the advent that would go the longest way toward improving Windows would be the emergence of real competition from Apple and possibly others.

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