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Jan 19, 10 - 06:21 pm Comment from: montex

Good to hear. Now I can install that Windows 7 Ultimate that's been sitting on the shelf for 2 months. But then I have to think of what to use it for...

Jan 19, 10 - 06:29 pm Comment from: TowerTone

My Boot Camp feels Booty-er!

Holy crap, I downloaded this, and poked around in the Resources folder, and found all kinds of PNG images and property list files that point to Boot Camp running on the tablet. It also installs private frameworks that emulate Windows APIs and maps stylus events to Windows mouse events. I can say this much definitively from the resources: this bitch is going to run Windows natively in a sandbox.

Can't wait until Jan 27.

Jan 19, 10 - 08:00 pm Comment from: Ampar

I thought this was the big announcement for the 27th.

What a letdown.

Jan 19, 10 - 09:30 pm Comment from: breeze

no more excuses for the windows crowd holdouts to note switch now.

Switch and forever hold your peace or if you'd rather - your piece.

had windows 7 beta on my macbook pro a while back, ended up deleting the partition, just found no use for it.

Jan 19, 10 - 10:22 pm Comment from: ken1w

Only 19 days late! That seems appropriate for a Mac feature that supports Windows.

@breeze.
Perhaps the tablet will be called Codpiece.

Jan 19, 10 - 10:59 pm Comment from: s

@montex

So, Chinese government (and probably other foreign and domestic governments) can check out your computer...

But – but – you can play SOLITAIRE in Windows!

Windows is GREAT for one thing... and only one thing. And it's the reason why all of my Mac's have Windows (XP) installed on them, yes, every single one of them (4).

Gaming. The Mac STILL SUCKS for gaming. Not that this is ENTIRELY Apple's fault, but it is still my biggest problem with the whole OS X platform. It's just a pain to explain to my 7 year old why he gets to use OS X for iTunes/iPhoto/iMovie/Safari, but then he always has to reboot to go play games. It's just lame, and ALMOST enough to justify just using Windows 7 (ok, not really).

And don't suggest VMWare/Parallels/etc because I recently tried them (the most recent versions), and it is not stable enough or fast enough for all the games that we play.