The Wall Street Journal’s Walt Mossberg has tested Apple’s new Boot Camp public beta. Mossberg writes that after installing Boot Camp and Windows XP on an Intel-based iMac, Windows ran “blazingly fast,” and all of the Windows applications he tested ran “flawlessly.”
The install time (installing Boot Camp itself plus the Windows installer) came in at 57 minutes, 17 minutes for the Boot Camp install and 40 minutes for Windows XP.
Mossberg did find a few issues – it is a public beta after all – including having to do a clock reset every time Windows is booted (the Mac’s system clock not recognized by Windows). Mossberg also found that he was not able to use Apple’s iSight camera, as Apple points out in their Boot Camp documentation.
Mossberg concludes, “Whether you want to run Mac or Windows programs, an Apple computer may be the only computer you’ll need.”
Full article here.
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