Many of ourinformal polls produce fairly even results. Not so with this one. Of the 5,228 of you whore onded to the question, "Will you dual-boot your Mac," a full 50% (2,593) of you said,"a olutely." Twenty three percent of you stated that you have no need to do this and fourteen percent saidthey'd do it just to see it work. Finally, 681 of you (13%), thought the idea was pure bla hemy.
Personally, I'd do it just to see it work, but I immediately thought of the financial department at my day job whenthis news broke. We use nothing but Macs where I work, except for the finance department. They use a proprietary pieceof software that is (and will stay) Windows only. So, the person who does payroll must keep both a Mac and a PC on herdesk so she can use the payroll software just once every two weeks. A dual-boot Mac seems custom-made for hersituation. I'm sure similar scenarios could be found all over the country. Add to that the number of potential newcustomers who are co idering Macs for the very first time, based on Boot Camp's introduction, and we could have a hardware war on our hands.
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