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If you run the install you'll seee that most of the drivers are not signed (they have not passed WHQL). While they may be good enough to get the devices to function, there's no way of knowing they are of any specific quality or if their performance is up to par.

Wow. This is genuinely significant news - Apple hardware able to run windows, and endorsed by Apple?

OSX for x86 available to buy seperately please.
I want OSX and XPSP2 as a dual boot please, and I don't want to do it on anything manufactured by Apple.

Hey, wait... this is a big deal in a much different way. Tech Report will finally be able to do apples-to-apples benchmarks in OSX and XP, since the hardware is exactly the same. This is going to be very, very interesting.

At a recent course I was taking, the instructor was convinced OS-X would be eventually abandoned. His reasoning was that Apple has always maintained they are a hardware company first, software second. I don't really know if it is true, but this makes them one step closer. I for one wouldn't mind, Apple has some damn nice hardware. The OS drives me nuts though.

Ok, as Boot Camp has ATI XP drivers that work on the X1600 gpu....I wanna see some damn benchmarks. Anyone see any?

well, this about makes game developers less likely to port anything to OSX. With the ability to boot windows on a mac just for windows aplications (games are mostly what's missing for me) this could prove very useful.
What would be really cool is simultanous booting. I read a paper on booting two operating systems a while ago. I thought it was useless at the time, but it would be really cool to have two different enviornments just so you could get rid of compatability issues.

I just want to run XP INSIDE of OS X. VirtualPC minus Emulation, I suppose. I just need to pop XP open to run certain apps for work, everything else can be done inside of OS X.

Windows are everywhere where is the Door ;-}

WinXP Dual-boot solution - PC box, Acronis Boot Manager, XP, Linux with OS X visual cues. Done.

when memrom comes out, i'm getting an apple laptop!

i want teh 64 bitness . . .

I'm failing to see the usefullness of this....why not just find a way instead to port OSX to PC. THat would make waaay more sense in my opinion. I'm gonna pay some 1900+ for Apple Hardware to load virus prone/crash prone Winows???? You have got to be kidding. Now bring the stability of OSX to PC then we got something innovative here. If you want the strength of having multiple processors, just get a SMP system sheesh. Other than that what's the benefit for having Windows on a MAC? Maybe someone can explain it to me, I'm not getting it obviously........

I wonder if Apple will eventually start selling copies of Windows as an option with new systems?

If Boot Camp is going to be included in Leopard, they might as well make a pre-installed Windows partition an option when you buy it.

Almost guarantees my next computer will be a Mac.

I have been one of those guys who has assembled his own PC's for over a decade and have been hacking on computer since soldering reset button on my Commodore 64, or putting hack memory modules into my Amiga 1000.

But I have finally come to the point where I decided I would buy a pre-built next time. Let someone else do the integration testing. I was wondering where I would get my quality pre-built.

I have used Amigados, Dos, OS/2, Windows, Linux, Solaris, HP/UX, but these days it is primarly Solaris at work and Windows at home. I am interested to give OSX a try. Seems like the perfect opportunity to make the move risk free and buy some well put together/integrated hardware at the same time.

I will be waiting for Merom/Conroe, but that won't be long.

First time In a long time that I am getting excited about an upgrade.

As I posted in the thread on this, what I wonder is whether this was going to happen anyway, or whether Apple got pressured into doing this by the onmac project succeeding.

Uhm...how about Windows Media Center on a Mac Mini?

Wow, this just tipped me over the edge... I know what my next purchase will be.

XP for games and rare software.
OS X for everything else.

from teh apple site

"Macs use an ultra-modern industry standard technology called EFI to handle booting. Sadly, Windows XP, and even the upcoming Vista, are stuck in the 1980s with old-fashioned BIOS. But with Boot Camp, the Mac can operate smoothly in both centuries."

"Windows running on a Mac is like Windows running on a PC. That means it’ll be subject to the same attacks that plague the Windows world. So be sure to keep it updated with the latest Microsoft Windows security fixes."

"A printer for the instructions (You’ll want to print them before installing Windows, really)"

"Don’t forget to follow best practices for updating and protecting your Windows system (see “Word to the wise” to right). "

Those silly Apple PR guys...

Very smart move on Apple's part IMHO, and I suspect this has long been in their plans. People like my wife, who are not geeks/enthusiasts, would really go for this option as her workplace environment (university) uses mostly PCs, but her department is one of the Apple holdouts. While she currently uses a PC, the next time she needs a new computer, this would be a very tempting option. Hmm . . . which means she would not be buying a Dell. Geez, she'd probably want one for the home, as well. And despite being a PC enthusiast/builder, I'd be interested in one as well! This would be especially compelling with the new Vista. Geez, could you imagine buying a new Mac with Vista pre-loaded as well. Whoa.

It's a good idea to have this type of solution officially available.

A lot of people only want/afford one computer, and they may desire a Mac but they have a need to use Windows.

This means that they can have both, at a small cost increment over the Mac alone. It could help Apple's sales, and their share price has gone up accordingly today.

Not sure why they didn't do this sooner.

This greatly increases the chances that I might buy an Apple computer.

and jobs was saying it would never happen, officially anyway Lol