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To: Done, gone. who wrote (52133)	4/5/2006 9:57:04 AM
From: OrionX	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 213185

Michal, I know there are those who don't mind dual boots but I'm saying it now, there are going to be many hair-pulling days ahead that will give some pretty ugly bad press to Apple when people start having problems with drivers and compatibility issues. There's no free lunch. Personally, I think Apple should've avoided this altogether and gone for virtualization. Just my opinion.

To: Done, gone. who wrote (52133)	4/5/2006 10:01:25 AM
From: rlev	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213185

>>Secondly, how will you be able to read and write your Window's >>files when running in OS X? >You won't. This is just an easy intermediate step to being able to run windows side by side with OS X (http://www.intel.com/technology/computing/vptech/)

To: Done, gone. who wrote (52133)	4/5/2006 10:21:08 AM
From: Win-Lose-Draw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213185

That was then, this is now; across the product line, equivalent hardware from Apple is currently running about %40 more than Dell. The number of switchers is infinitessmal. An official boot hack isn't going to change anything, IMO. If it had been done back when a decent PC cost $5k, maybe, but not in 2006 when $500 gets you a perfectly useable Windows laptop. All IMO, etc.