Turns out, Apple could?ve won that $13,854 if it had just released Boot Camp a month earlier. Instead of crippling a hack, Apple has released a legitimate version that does what the hack did ? and in true Apple fashion, a whole lot more.
Unlike the winning hack, which required some seriously geeky tricks, Boot Camp walks you through the process: it dynamically resizes your startup disk?s partitions to create a new one for XP (no reformatting required), automatically burns you a CD full of Windows drivers for Intel-based Mac hardware, and then reboots you into Windows to start the installation procedure.
Apple?s integrated the concept of booting into Windows into the Startup Disk preference pane: Windows volumes now appear in the list of bootable volumes. And Boot Camp even installs an Apple-written Windows utility that lets you set the default startup disk when you?re running Windows, too. You can even hold down the Option key when you start up the Mac, and as always, you?ll be provided with a list of bootable volumes ? but now your Windows volume will appear in the list there, too.
