BetaNews reports that Apple senior vice president of worldwide product marketing Phil Schiller said the company would not specifically block the use of Windows on Mac hardware. Instead, limitations in Windows itself will prevent its use on the new MacBook Pro laptop and iMac.
With the announcement of the first Intel based Macs yesterday, many users have rejoiced in being able to dual-boot both Mac OS X and Windows. Unfortunately, this is not the case; due to Apple's use of the extensible firmware interface (EFI) rather than BIOS, current Windows releases will not run on the systems. [BetaNews]
It would be great to have a single machine that can boot Windows, Mac, or Linux OS. This would be especially useful for laptops and notebooks. For home or office deskbound environments, I believe using a KVM switch with three machines is a more realistic and more productive solution, if you really need to juggle between operating systems. (But of course, it is a more expensive approach.) :)
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