Mac supporte officiellement Windows

Apple vient de sortir Boot Camp en public beta, afin de permettre aux usagers d'installer Windows sur leur Mac Intel et choisir sur quel système d'opération démarrer.




Et un gros coup de marteau sur Microsoft :

Macs use an ultra-modern industry standard technology called EFI to handle booting. Sadly, Windows XP, and even the upcoming Vista, are stuck in the 1980s with old-fashioned BIOS. But with Boot Camp, the Mac can operate smoothly in both centuries.

PC World à fait un premier test. Conclusion : Incroyable

Performance :

Back in Windows, I got right down to business and installed a few games to put the graphics and sound support to the test. The quick and dirty verdict on performance? Most impressive. Doom 3 and Far Cry both ran smoothly with high-end graphics options turned on.

In both cases, I had to tweak visual settings manually, since the games automatically set themselves to very low settings. Far Cry, for example, autodetected very low settings, but it ran without a hitch when I bumped the resolution up to 1280 by 720, with all visual quality options set to "High."

Stabilité :

So far, working in Windows on the Intel-based iMac has come off without a hitch: If not for the slicker-looking hardware, I'd think I was working on a standard Windows PC with a wide-screen monitor. And that's exactly what you'd want from a usable dual-boot system.

Firefox downloaded and installed flawlessly, and iTunes streamed songs easily from other PCs on the network. Both wired and wireless networking seemed fine. Little things, like the eject key on the Mac's keyboard worked without a hiccup. Even automatic driver updates downloaded and installed easily.

Un peut plus... Et nous dirions que Windows fonctionne même mieux sur un Mac !!!

Voici un autre EXCELLENT article et très approfondi sur le sujet par John Gruber.