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More OS choice to the Users by Intel Macs

January 15, 2006

Apple has given a new opportunity to its users for a dual booting, Apple's own Mac OS and its rival Microsoft Windows.

Apple introduced two new Intel-based machines, an iMac desktop and the MacBook notebook, at MacWorld. The iMac is available now, with the MacBook scheduled to ship in February but available for ordering on Tuesday.

Microsoft, for instance, sells Virtual PC for Mac, virtual machine software for Mac OS X that lets customers install Windows and Windows applications into a virtual system. That application, however, won't work on the newest Intel Macs, the currently-available iMacs and the to-release-in-February MacBook Pro notebooks.

It's unclear what version of Windows might work on an Intel Mac. At Tuesday's MacWorld Expo roll-out of the new systems, Apple executives said that the company wouldn't specifically block the use of Windows, but neither would it go out of its way to encourage the practice.