Well, it's being widely reported that someone has figured out how to get Windows XP running on an Intel Mac. Yawn. If you want to run Windows, why not just buy a PC? Okay, okay, so Mac users do have to run Windows apps every now and then.

Anyway, as far as I can tell the only real reason why you'd want to dual-boot a Mac with Windows and Mac OS X is to play games. Other than that, this is really just a good temporary solution for people that need to run Windows applications every now and then. For those people a better solution would be VirtualPC or VMWare so that they can run Windows side by side with Mac OS X. That would be a much better solution in the long run.

Games require graphics acceleration from the video card though. So a virtual solution (VirtualPC or VMWare) still doesn't work well for games. For that you really need to be able to dual-boot. The problem though, is that, at least right now, there is no video acceleration on the Intel Macs when run under WinXP. Yes, the video card is likely just a standard ATI X1600, but from all of the reports I've read so far the driver isn't being loaded for it. Maybe this is a simple fix and maybe it isn't. But at least for now, the Intel Macs won't be great for gaming under Windows.

In the mean time, I've got my XBox and Halo 2. :)