Apple’s launch of Boot Camp is good news. Boot Camp’s webpage, however, is full of Apple’s “Windows sucks” and “OSX — the most advanced OS” attitude. As a Windows user, I did a little interpretation of the things I absolutely cannot believe are on Apple’s website.

The italics are my inserts.

More and more people are buying and loving Macs. To make this choice simply irresistible (expensive), 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.

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Boot Camp will burn a CD of all the required drivers for Windows so you don’t have to scrounge around the Internet looking for them. Scrounge on the Internet looking for drivers? They come with Windows. Although the plug and play feature is not perfect, it works. On a Mac, you plug something in, a lot of the times, OSX either does not recognize the hardware (does not support it) or the driver has to be manually installed from the installation CD of the plugged-in hardware.

Run XP natively

Once you’ve completed Boot Camp, simply hold down the option key at startup to choose between Mac OS X and Windows. (That’s the “altâ€? key for you longtime Windows users.) Oh that’s what the option key is. We longtime Windows users have standard keyboards, so we wouldn’t know what a key with some weird 4-square icon means.

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• A printer for the instructions (You’ll want to print them before installing Windows, really.) Really? Now if only I could get a regular printer to work with OSX…

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• The software also helps you set aside hard drive space for the Windows installation, without moving any of your Mac files around. Just drag the intuitive slider to choose the size that’s right for you. Boot Camp also helps you remove the Windows partition, should you so desire. Reminds me of that guy who got “Apple Rocks” for the engraving on his iPod when he wanted “Microsoft 4ever” (link).
• Next, insert your Windows installation disc, restart and follow the Windows installation process. The only tricky part is selecting the C: drive manually. Be sure to get this right, or you could erase your Mac files accidentally (How hard could that be? Not very hard at all). Remember, Apple Computer does not sell or support Microsoft Windows. You only wish you did so you could make millions a day.

Using Windows on a Mac

Mac hardware operates differently from PCs (Finally, something that everyone will agree with), and this public beta does not support all features of the Mac in Windows. Learn more about running Windows on a Mac.

EFI and BIOS

Macs use an ultra-modern industry standard technology called EFI to handle booting. That’s because your Macs only need to support one kind of hardware — the white non-upgradeable Apple hardware. Sadly, Windows XP, and even the upcoming Vista, are stuck in the 1980s with old-fashioned BIOS. Windows ensures backward compatibility. Mac OSX is compatible with… no wait it’s not compatible with OS9. But with Boot Camp, the Mac can operate smoothly in both centuries. Because you’ve still got a load of OS9 users living in 1999.