Chapter . Apple Boot Camp Public Beta First Look
Throughout your life, you’ll face decisions that will take you, sometimes irrevocably, in one direction or another: Democrat/Republican, East Coast/West Coast, favorite Beatle. For computer users, whether to use the Macintosh or Windows operating system has long been a mutually exclusive decision. But now, with Apple’s Boot Camp Public Beta and an Intel-powered Macintosh, you can climb squarely onto the fence and run both operating systems on the same computer.
Unlike emulation systems such as Microsoft’s Virtual PC, which translate your Mac’s PowerPC instructions into Intel instructions on the fly—with a terrific cost in overall performance—Boot Camp takes advantage of the fact that your new Intel-equipped ...
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