MacBook Pro as a Mac and a PC

Anandtech has a great article up where they take Basecamp for a spin and talk about the use of a dual-boot MacBook Pro that can load up into OS X 10.4 and Windows XP.

Early on in my Mac experience I would’ve done anything to be able to run Windows, and I’ve heard the same request from many users looking to give Macs a try but are worried that they won’t be able to do everything they do today with their PCs. Boot Camp and Parallels’ Workstation 2.1 are the best transition tools you could hope for, so now there’s really no longer an excuse not to give it a try. While I’d like to see a more polished set of drivers for Windows XP included in Boot Camp, it’s a start. To Apple’s credit, the application is still in beta and isn’t supposed to be released until OS X 10.5; that being said, it seems like the problems that do exist with Boot Camp wouldn’t take much time to fix at all.

I really can’t wait to try a MacBook Pro and Basecamp to see what the experience is like. I have seen videos of people playing Counterstrike on their Apple computers.

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