Read about one MacWorld staffer's experience installing XP on an Intel-based Mac Mini in this article. Conclusions: it took way longer than he thought it would to get it running, now that it's running it works, it's missing a few things but is fine for most apps, a couple of the glitches can require a clean reinstall with loss of all data on the disk, he wouldn't bet the farm on it yet.

If you plan to try it, this article is a must. Lots of practical warnings about the gotchas, as well as things that one might think are going wrong but are just how the process works.

In light of what has been said in this thread and todays announcement of "bootcamp": hahahahahahaha.

Well, I guess my remarks about "There's not going to be Apple warranty or support" lasted about 3 weeks.

I guess I could remain technically correct because it's not as if Apple is supporting Windows (says so right on the Boot Camp page), but obviously they have developed their own software to support the Windows booting, so there won't be any hardware warranty issues and such.

Hey, whatever works. I personally would only find dual boot useful in a select few instances (which don't exist for me right now). If someone gives me virtualization, though, as I mentioned above (ability to put Windows on the box and then run Windows apps *without* rebooting), then I'll be impressed and somewhat more interested. I still don't have an immediate use for it, but it would mean that I could fire up the occasional Windows app without rebooting, and I could see that being much more useful.

are really not that bad on mac portables...i;m guessing that one could possibly down and up in 5 minutes for osX to winbloze...or vis versa.

So for work life balance, i could just shut off work in the hotel room and go into os X for the evening...and with the MAC address being tied to the hotel broadband it should all be good.

I wonder how long it will be till vendors start selling Macs with XP pre-installed...

I bet we won't see vendors doing the preinstalled thing, there is still a license requirement, that would simply add to the cost.

I'll try the install tonite, see how it goes.

My guess, this was out there already, apple just wants to get SOME level of support for it, doing it right the first time. Lots of people might have tried the homebrew version, but would have screwed theirs macs.

Since the technology is reportadly going to be in the next version of OSx, my guess is they are just getting it out there in advance.

Nice stock pop though.

Looks like a company plans to release a product making virtualization possible on the Mac perhaps as early as this week. This article says that details will be available later this week. Not sure what that means. Maybe just an announcement of when it will be released. shrug. we'll have to see.

Mr SWise is also anxiously awaiting virtualization, so that he can do away with carrying two machines everywhere. I, for one, will be happy when the Thinkpad finally takes up permanent residence in our in-home computer retirement community.