I saw a commercial for the super bowl about apple running Intel. Just wondering if anyone else saw or heard about it. ( does this mean apple can run windows if true ) ???

Dont know about the windows thing but yep Apple is going with Intel chips in some of their products.

To be perfectly honest with you, apple's use of intel chips in their macs has gone a little further now, with users putting dual core 2.5 gHz chips inside the new mac mini. Supposedly, it's one heck of a hack because the single core mac was running a 2gig processor.




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Apple unveils official support for booting Windows
4/5/2006 8:38:01 AM, by Clint Ecker

More and more people are buying and loving Macs. To make this choice simply irresistible, Apple will include technology in the next major release of Mac OS X, Leopard, that lets you install and run the Windows XP operating system on your Mac. Called Boot Camp (for now), you can download a public beta today.

Article here

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060405-6524.html


Download link

http://www.apple.com/macosx/bootcamp/publicbeta.html

REMINDER: this is a beta version, which means you may have difficulty.
Be sure to have your system backed up and a Restore point available.

Also... "Word to the Wise: Windows running on a Mac is like Windows running on a PC. That means it'll be subject to the same attacks that plague the Windows world. So be sure to keep it updated with the latest Microsoft Windows security fixes.

Macs use an ultra-modern industry standard technology called EFI to handle booting. Sadly, Windows XP, and even the upcoming Vista, are stuck in the 1980s with old-fashioned BIOS. But with Boot Camp, the Mac can operate smoothly in both centuries."