how much of a shock am i in for???

[Accordion]

but it dual boots, new macs are like sexy squids with ten arms...that can turn themselves inside out
and i was happy with the sexy octopus of yore...

[SnesR0X]

Macs arn't bad, their better at recording music on than pc are

[gamerremag]

but i dont record music so....

when you say dual boot, are you refering to that beta boot camp? is it still beta?

[Cap'n 1time]

but i dont record music so....

when you say dual boot, are you refering to that beta boot camp? is it still beta?

I have no idea what the hell beta boot camp is, but...
He is referring to the now very popular dual boot method linux users have been using for years when they want to switch between Windows and their favorite linux distro or even other linux distros or other os's all together. Lots of open source options such as grub or lilo have been in use for years. With the new x86 compatible processors they are putting in the new macs they can now boot Windows, Linux, Mac and anything else they want whenever they want. Even the new Vista will allow for dual booting options as I understand it. Personally I am happy just using linux, but Macs are indeed sexy machines.

http://deb.user.ba.googlepages.com/Capture-ubugrey.png (near 100 kb, little warning for 56kers )
Here is an example of some fancy graphical grub boot loader (obviously the one from the ubuntu distro, though mine is non graphical). Note different kernel versions are optional as well as windows XP.

[Junixx]

I didn't get that graphical bootloader I'll have to get it sometime......dual booting is good i can use Ubuntu and Win2000.......I installed Beryl on Ubuntu.....but now im having problems with video lagging WAY behind the audio in video playback, even if i shut it off >.<

[ACID]

Well i know the feeling because i just ordered this notebook. Although i have this one here already.

[gamerremag]

http://www.apple.com/macosx/bootcamp/

boot camp is still in beta. It makes it so you can play windows on your mac. its in the new lepard OS

[Accordion]

just to clear things up

yes i will be able to use Boot Camp to fully boot into either windows or any other OS...

and i will also be able to run windows and any other OS from within Mac OS X by using this (go here- http://www.parallels.com/en/products/desktop/) software from Parallels

as soon as i can afford it of course.

[for those saying macs are crap for games...