After reading this post from Omar, it reminds me on why I love sub-notebooks so much, and why carrying both a Powerbook and a T40 around for the last 8 months has just about broke my back. And, while I really like the P7120 he’s getting, but the limit of a 60GB drive is just too small for my needs.

Now I’m in a quandary – the Macbook is pretty damn sexy and has all the features that I want, but I really need to be able to dual boot the thing – too much of my life revolves around Windows. It also still a bit heavy at 6+ lbs and only seems to get 3hrs or so of battery life. I’ll just have to wait until they’re released to make that decision.

The other (totally unsupported option) is attempting to get OSX running on non-Apple hardware. This, of course, isn’t supported and is problematic to say the least.

Of course, you’re probably asking: "Why do I want to run both OS’s"? For me, each brings something different to the table. And, just like a power tool, there’s usually a specific one that’s better suited for a particular job. I find the same is true about operating systems and their apps.

At least, that’s how it is today. It’ll be interesting to see what the next few years bring.


3 Comments

    Jimmy Grewal (January 15, 2006 @ 8:21 am)

    As the MacBook uses EFI instead of a traditional bios, you’re best chance at dual-booting would be Vista as that is the first 32bit OS from Microsoft that supports EFI. I’m not sure if development builds of Vista will be OK for you or you really need something that runs XP SP2.

    The other issue is one of partitions. “I heard” that on the original Apple Intel development box and the easiest way to dual boot was to have two drives, one NTFS and one HFS+ and use the bios to set which had boot priority. Since the MacBook can only have one drive, I’m not sure what the easiest way is to have one NTFS and one HFS+ partition and get both OS’es to install without stepping on each other’s boot process.


    Steve (January 15, 2006 @ 12:40 pm)

    Yup, well aware of the EFI issues (since I work on Vista :) ).

    Even though there’s one drive, you should be able to create 2 partitions, both set to ‘primary’.. one as type AF, the other at NTFS.


    Rick Lobrecht (January 16, 2006 @ 9:19 am)

    I’m hoping for VM Ware for OSX on Intel.


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