Gotta love it. Most kool-aid drinking Mac enthusiasts have said that the new release of OSX codenamed "Lepard" will have virtualization built-in. Much like Xen, or perhaps Xen ported to Darwin? We will all know finally in June at the Annual Apple Developers Conference.Boot CampAnyways for now, Apple has released Boot Camp Beta, it allows customers who've bought an intel based Mac to dual boot Windows and OSX.Wait...someone has already done this!True, someone has done this already. The "other" method involves resizing partitions, re-installing OSX, then finally installing Windows. Then once Windows is installed, you come to find that none of the hardware is supported, like the 1000/100/10 ethernet card, 802.11g wifi card, and bluetooth, even the display drivers are running some Generic Display so you cannot even take advantage of the awesome Apple lcd displays. Apple has made it dumblingly simple, to install Windows on an Intel Mac. So once again the, "If my mom can do it" question holds true. Boot Camp will even burn a CD with all of the required Windows drivers for the Intel Mac hardware. It's awesome, elegant, and of course it's Apple!What about Virtualization?This only re-enforces the theory that the next release of OSX will have Virtualization built-in. It makes perfect sense cause now this will drive/enforce the transition from PowerPC based Macs to Intel based Macs. It's a win/win for new and the old die hard Mac customers.
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