I was listening to the new TWiT podcast today, and they were (for much of the show) discussing Apple's "boot" camp, and what it meant for Apple and if it will get people to switch to Apple computers. In my opinion Apple makes some excellent windows machines. CNET has an excellent comparison of 4 different laptops running windows and it even compares the OSX Macbook with the Windows Macbook. And based on some reviews I understand that the gaming capabilities of the Macbook are good as well. Since I am a gamer, and that is the only reason my massive windows box is my main computer, this especially interested me. If when the Conroe Intel chips come out (supposed to be better at running both operating systems together), Apple releases a way to run the Windows environment within OSX, and the gaming capabilities are good, I will be completely sold. Apple will also be able to take a huge chunk out of Microsoft market (for people that only use windows). But the best part of this is that everyone wins. I get my beloved Mac OS, and I get the great gaming capabilities that I would find on a comparably priced Windows box. But most importantly is that Apple gets another computer sold, and Windows gets another disc sold. No one looses here. MS wins, Apple wins, the Comsumer wins, and that is the most important part. The only people that might be affected are Dell and Gateway and other manufacturers. But if anything this will spur more compition among the PC makers, and compition is all ways good.

Well that's that, basically I am glad that apple has taken this direction, and I would like to see what happens once OSX.5 Leopard comes out. Send me an e-mail at hosvos@gmail.com, and until next time (sooner then later I hope) its Irreversible Progress.
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