Apple has released their own solution to installing Windows on an Intel Mac – Boot Camp. Apple’s complete solution, though still in beta, provides owners of Intel Macs to easily partition their hard drive and install Windows XP SP2 (Home and Pro) with a cool GUI for changing bootup drive. When booting hold down the option (alt) key to select between OS X and Windows.
For your convenience, Boot Camp burns a CD with all the Mac-specific drivers for Windows:
- Graphics
- Networking
- Audio
- AirPort wireless
- Bluetooth
- The Eject key (on Apple keyboards)
- Brightness control for built-in displays
This CD also installs a Startup Disk control panel for Windows.
However, iSight isn’t supported, nor is the MacBook Pro’s backlight keyboard or the Apple Remote. Granted, these things are the ones we wouldn’t have expected to work off the bat. I, for one, am glad to see Apple do this, and I think it is a very positive thing, because now you don’t need to spend ages in getting Windows running using the hack (by Narf2006 and blanka) but you have an Apple distrubuted installer. This takes away all the pain, so now anyone can do it, relatively easily. Be warned though, you need to have 10.4.6 and Apple’s newest firmware update or you might end up like this guy, who already had is Blue Screen of Death (in Windows, that is).
So if you’re feeling adventerous the give it a whirr, it is a 83MB download (not counting the firmware update and 10.4.6 update) and tell me how it went!
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