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After being a pc user my entire life I decided to give Macs a chance, really I cannot say that I needed to switch from pc to mac but after having an ipod and seeing how much better they were than all the other mp3 players on the market I got curious about other apple products, that is what lead me to the macbook. When I placed my order for the 13 inch macbook core duo I figured that the worse case scenario was that I would not like OS X and have to install Windows via Boot Camp, which is a feature that I think has helped apple’s sale more than anything else. By allowing macs to run windows on it’s own partition you are giving people the chance to have a mac and if they want a pc. Well after having my mac for almost a year I had not installed Boot Camp, because to be honest I love OS x and saw no reason to run windows but curiosity got the best of me and I had to break down and see if it is really true about how easy it is to install and if it really runs as good as apple says. First let me say that Boot Camp is still beta software but I cannot imagine it getting any better or easier to use in the final release. The first thing that Bootcamp does is let you create your windows partition at whatever size you want (5 gig min.) then after that it asks for a blank cd to create a driver disk for xp and that is it, All you have to do is put in your xp cd, reboot and install windows. After windows is installed you put in the mac drivers cd and it does everything else for you. I know when bootcamp was first released there was some issues with not having all the drivers for everything like bluetooth & isight but all that has been resolved in the latest release, which is pretty amazing considering it is less than a year old. Now one other thing to talk about is that I have only installed boot camp with Windows XP SP2 (which is microsoft’s best OS to date) but boot camp does support Vista, which if you read my last post you would know that now is not the time for Vista on a PC let along a mac. All I can say is that if you are curious about macs but still want the windows experience do not hesitate to get a new Intel mac because really you are getting two computers for one.

First off let me say that i am by no means in love with microsoft products but I also realize that you can’t live with out them….My first impressons of windows vista is oh this looks nice, but then i started to run a few programs on my Brand New Computer with specs that way surpass vista’s requirements only to find that half of them either don’t run at all or run so badly that it is not really worth the effort…I think at best this final release of vista was only to save face for being so late and pushing back the release dates so many times kinda like what steve jobs keeps doing with the next version of OS X but I suppose the real question here is it better to rush out a product to appease the public or just wait until it is actually ready for the everyday use? After all it only took XP about 5 years to become a good solid operating system. So in parting I would strongly suggest waiting a year or so before spending the money on a new computer to run a OS that just isn’t ready.