Running Windows on Apple Mac - Bootcamp
Steve Jobs officially gave in the idea of running Windows on his Mac computer. There is a new version of dual booting Windows XP of Apple on the Intel based Mac which is called as Apple Boot Camp or Public Beta and it is now let to be downloaded from the official Apple website. This download is not for the hacker types, possibly the best features of it is the user friendly interface which lets average people dual boot with ease. The successfully addressed issue of BIOS from Apple also adds driver support for video cards and speakers which would bring in plenty of excitement to the entertainment and gaming community. This boot camp does not come without disclaimers as not everything might work and the Windows partition would be open to virus attack.
There are already assumptions about the official support for Windows with the joining of Apple BAPCO which is the new Windows based benchmarking company, after two programmers had figured out how to boot Windows on a Mac system and so the Boot camp download was their next logical step to drive sales. However Apple has already specified that they would not provide any technical support for Windows platform on the Mac system which can probably cause some concerns for non technical savvy community. Microsoft will however support the software issues and not any Mac hardware problems assuming that the user has a licensed copy of Windows XP SP2. It does not matter whether you are a Windows user or a Mac user this move would likely send several latent buyers to the nearby Apple store. Additionally the best thing is that it will also be in built as a part of upcoming Mac operating system X version.
The Boot Camp is the boot utility which lets users with Intel based Mac system to easily boot Windows. However it can only work if you have Windows XP SP2 which is also asked to submit. Therefore, make sure you have the blank CD-R disk ready as Boot Camp will require you to make drivers disk for all the Mac components so that you easily work XP. Some other things like running firmware and software updates are also necessary to make the Boot Camp run which should also be the first thing to do.
Procedure for installing Windows on Mac
There is a partition manage built right in the install procedure and so there is no need to create any separate partition for the new Windows XP on Mac. You just have to drag the bar that indicates how big you need the partition to be for Windows, and make sure that you write down the size that you are partitioning. Then the software would ask you for the bootable Windows XP SP2 disk in order to start the installation. This entire process might take you around an hour, and during the process if you decide that you don’t need Windows then Boot Camp can also revert back to Mac only computer. As you hold down the options key during startup, you can easily switch between Windows XP and Mac OS X.
