I’m glad I didn’t know back in the fall that Apple was going to have Intel Mac laptops running this newfangled Bootcamp system by now. If I did, I probably would have bought my PC laptop anyway (I needed it this winter and I got a lot of use out of it), but it would have made the decision to buy a PC for the sake of not waiting very very painful.

Also I couldn’t afford it, but’s that’s another issue. Anyhow, if I was buying a laptop now, it would be one of these Intel Mac machines, or the 13 inchers that are rumoured to be around the corner. With Windows dual-booted on it for science applications, and eventually with some sort of virtual machine to eliminate the need to even dual-boot, it would be as close to the perfect machine as I am aware of.

Not that I’m spiritually tied to the notion of finding the perfect computer and making it my own. I’m just not that kind of person.

And the Pulitzer for Mac commentary goes too… this guy over at Daring Fireball, who nails all the angles on the implications of Apple’s decision to support Windows as a dual-boot configuration on Macintosh machines. Heckuva read. If you’re that kind of person.