Doggedly searching for the crux of the biscuit.
It can run Windows, but why would you stick an ugly-assed, virus-ridden operating system on such a beautiful machine?
Posted by: apostropher at January 11, 2006 10:04 AMFor the same reason you'd let a monkey throw paint balloons at a Picasso or Monet.
Posted by: John Johnson at January 11, 2006 10:39 AMSorry, couldn't resist the chance to troll.
But seriously, it would be cool if you could dual bood Windows and OS X on this thing. Needs another mouse button, though.
Posted by: Bobby at January 12, 2006 09:56 AMWhy stop at dual? Let's go for Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X all in one machine! You can call it MacBook Multiple Personality Disorder Edition.
Posted by: John Johnson at January 12, 2006 11:25 AMI still have fond memories of the dual-board PowerPCs from the late-mid-90's (the 6100, or something, if I remember correctly?) that had a Mac motherboard, a PC daughterboard and hot-switching between OSes. Only downside was that only one OS or the other could have the TCP/IP stack at a time, so you could only do networked stuff from one or the other at a given moment, and switching meant a reboot. Otherwise? Seriously hot shit. Also, they cost approximately three babies. I worked at the campus helpdesk at UNC, though, so got to play with one there. (UNC was fairly free with the babies back then, I guess.)
Posted by: Robust McManlyPants at January 12, 2006 01:43 PM