Apple XP Dual Boot Mania Continues

Apple booting XP. Apple running XP on virtual machines. The mania continues seemingly unabated on the road to convergence. It has entered a new twist as the virtual machine vs dual boot camps are now coming out. And of course lots of reports of I can run this, I can run that. (Unfortunately Marc Orchant and friends couldn’t get their Vista experiment to work, but we kinda new that would happen.)

Timing is everything in every facet of life and I found myself thinking a bit about this today. Although I don’t use my desktop very much these days, I had been planning to replace it the end of this year. I’ve been planning the same thing with our home pc and was going to go the media center route there. (Of course I’m also planning on a new Tablet PC at some point, but that is way up in the air at the moment as I wait and see what happens with the UMPC market.) Point being, Apple has caught my eye with this move and here’s why.

I do most of my work on my Tablet PC and I expect that to continue. What do I use the desktop for? A file server mostly, but I also use it for some heavy duty graphics work and desktop publishing. You can probably smell where I’m going with this. This move now offers a new option for the desktop at the office and a dual booting Mac Mini could be an interesting solution at home.

Some serious thinking going on here. If Apple comes up with a Tablet PC of some sort, I’ll be bankrupt by Christmas, but hey, it’d be a fun ride.