Installing Windows XP on MacBook

I bought a new MacBook just after they were introduced. One of the main incentives to me was that I could, if I so chose, install the Windows XP operating system. I don't need this OS except in two critical areas: My scuba dive computer data can be downloaded and analysed by a program which is available in Windows only. I have been waiting for the firmware upgrade to appear on the download page of the Apple website (which, I have read is required as a prerequisite for using Boot Camp). It has not appeared yet to my knowledge, yet I just read an article which appeared in a Time magazine online article written by a journalist who has installed Windows on one of these new laptops. Where did he get the firmware upgrade from? Is one even necessary? I hesitate to try to install Windows OS until I get some expert opinion on the two questions asked earlier. A reply would be greatly appreciated by someone who knows or has done the install on the new MacBook.
MacBook Mac OS X (10.4.6)

don't do the parallels thing! i've heard so many
problems with that that like messes up you $1500
macbook or pro.
Oh, gosh, don't say stuff like this. Parallels is a good product. Not invasive at all, doesn't do anything to your partitions, is self-contained with its own support structure (like Virtual PC of long ago).
Indeed, am typing this reply from within Windows XP Parallels, using Firefox. Parallels is utterly the ultimate to run a foreign operating system on the MacBook, especially if you need a shared PC / Mac environment.
I run Windows XP as if it were a Mac application. At my option, it is in its own application window on my Mac. Just another mere application.
Parallels is doing a great job on getting this product ready. It is still in beta, and the forum there is similiar to the Apple forum: lots of activity, lots of gripe gripe gripe, lots of happy messages.
But, don't say statements that Parallels will kill computers, that sort of thing. If it does, there is something else going on.

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