MAC & PC Co-exist With “Boot Camp”

We’ve seen those rather amusing ( if you’re a Mac fan) television commercials with the casual, hip Mac dude and the uptight, suit-wearing PC geek, trading competitive banter. They seem to always be at adds. But Apple has made it possible to easily run the Windows operating system and the Mac Leopard operating system on the same Apple computer. The PC & Mac boys can safely  do their respective thing while sharing the same hard drive !

What makes this possible is a handy little program called Boot Camp that comes as part of the Mac OS. It safely & easily partions the hard drive to allow the installation of Windows in its own space. Each OS runs in native mode without the use of an emulator like Virtual PC. It will work with Windows XP & Vista and can also use standard Windows drivers. However, the operating systems cannot run simultaneously. Users have to run one at a time. This should minimize any further Mac dude/PC geek arguments ;-)

( Source: Smart Computing, June 2008, p. 38 )
Also see, Boot Camp. Run Windows on your Mac.