XP on Macs

Apple Launches Software to Run Windows XP is the announcement (wisely not released on April 1) announcing a patch for Intel-based Macs to boot either MacOS or Windows XP:
The computer maker said its new "Boot Camp" software is available as a download beginning Wednesday. It allows users with a Microsoft Windows XP installation disc to install Windows XP on an Intel-based Mac computer.

"Apple has no desire or plan to sell or support Windows, but many customers have expressed their interest to run Windows on Apple's superior hardware now that we use Intel processors," Philip Schiller, Apple senior vice president of worldwide product marketing, said in a statement.

Boot Camp makes it easier to install Windows software on an Intel-based Mac, with a step-by-step guide. It also lets users choose to use either Mac OS X software, or the Windows software when they restart their computer.

Users can download the new Boot Camp software from Apple's Web site. A final version of Boot Camp will be available as a feature in the upcoming Mac OS X version 10.5 "Leopard."
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It's due for shipping on the 10th... Woot -- it shipped today! Replacing the piece-o-shit laptop I bought from Fry's and forced them to refund me money for (after 6 months!).

But it'll have a slower CPU than the MacBook (I didn't feel the need to upgrade it), and I suspect the video card will make the MacBook slaughter it (the 1400 is better than the Intel video, but still doesn't hold a candle to the 1600). I'm not familiar w/ Cinebench though, so I dunno

Man.. you've got new babies arriving daily!!


Cinebench is really only good for knowing how well a machine will run Cinema4D, which is a high-end rendering/animation package AFAIK.. I guess it gives the machine a pretty good workout in some ways, but mostly people run it because it's available on a whole bunch of platforms and the scores are all derived from some reference system, so one can pretend to extrapolate meaning from them

That MacBook at 1.83GHz, for example, turns in pretty impressive results compared to my Dual 2.5 G5/9600XT -- it's only just a little bit slower in all tests except for hardware OGL, where it quite predictably wins by a hair. I don't think the engine uses any special G5 optimizations, but even still, the results posted on XLR8 are very impressive indeed for a laptop..

Give it a run on your new machine just for kicks if you get a chance.. I'm curious to know how Apple's machine stacks-up to Dell's in XP.

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