Boot Camp is a beta software program that allows you to install Windows XP without moving your Mac data. With Boot Camp you can burn a CD of all the required drivers for Windows so you don’t have to seek them out yourself. Once Boot Camp is installed you simply hold down the option key at startup to choose between Mac OS X and Windows. Cool! Dual-boot Macs!
The Contest pays a bounty to the first person to post instructions on how to dual boot Windows XP on the new Intel Macs. The contest was created by Colin Nederkoorn who seeded the contest with $100 and via PayPal donations, the bounty has grown to a whopping $4831! I donated my $25 - have you?
It looks like the next version of the KDE Linux desktop shell will fully Support Apple Dashboard Widgets. This will largely happen because of Apple’s use and development of KHTML which is the foundation for KDE’s Konquerer web browser.
Paul Stamatiou offers his list of 10 Apps Every New Mac User Should Download. The list is limited to free applications that are sure to make your Mac experience even better!
This link is a bit old now, but it appears that PC users can Expect Vista to cost significantly less than XP. I wonder if this has anything to do with Apple’s OSX making the move to the Intel plaform and the consitantly low price of the Apple operating system? Let’s hope that Apple can provide some real competition in the OS marketplace - much like what we’re seeing now with Microsoft and IE7, RSS, Office formats, etc. Bring on the competition and the ensuing innovation!
