Installing XP on your Intel Mac

Our favourite company just released this public Beta :
http://www.apple.com/macosx/bootcamp/
Pro music users among us should at least be, well, very very cautious before experimenting with this new opportunity. I for one will not go for it - there
simply is no need for me. The important bit that matters is the 'Word to the Wise' part in the above link ...

It could come in handy especially for converts who were working in a windows only DAW, now they can just sell that machine to finance the new Mac and boot into XP when they need to work on legacy projects. For me this pretty much seals the deal that I will get an intel based Mac laptop and sell my G5 tower. I am in the IT biz, so I need a Windows machine around but I don't want to spend the money on a purely work machine. But now, I can have the Mac for all my stuff and XP for work stuff- I can do about 80% of what I need to do from OSX, but there are tools that I use that necessitate a windows environment. Anyway, glad to see Apple making aggressive moves to get market share.

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