Apple Boot Camp

Now that they're using Intel processors and after a group of hackers managed to get Windows running on an Intel Mac, Apple have announced Boot Camp. Boot Camp is basically a bit of dual-booting software for Intel Macs that allows you to choose between Mac OS X or Windows XP at boot-up. It's available now in beta and will come standard with the next major release of OS X (Leopard). I imagine it'll do its intended job very well too - encouraging people like me who are still iffy on taking the plunge and getting a Mac to feel a bit safer in the knowledge that their new Mac can always fall back to XP when needed. It'll be interesting to see how XP compares in terms of performance on Apple hardware, but it has put the idea of getting a Mac Mini back in my mind to check OS X out. I wonder if we'll start seeing OS X able to run on non-Apple PCs now that the two operating systems can clearly be handled on the same hardware.