I have a little problem. I am easily swayed by aesthetics. In fact I am a marketers dream. If it is in a shiny or sexy package, I will become infatuated with whatever product it holds. Currently I am the proud owner of beautiful yet useless items like: 1” glow-in-the-dark mouse (wires became exposed within a week of use), a Marilyn Monroe purse (hiding in the closet because the face really is rather large), and cow cookie jar that moos when opened (enough said about that!). So when it comes to technology a lot of times I am side tracked by its sexy appeal rather than its compatibility with my life style. Case and point: I recently sold my ibook because while it was so adorably small and white and beautiful, it did not support many of my software demands such as CAD.

The along came Boot Camp, and the apple was tasty once again!

For those of you who haven’t been following Apple in the last little while, they recently announced that they would be moving their Macintosh computing platform to Intel processors. This will be the third major transition undertaken by Apple – the first was from Motorola to PowerPC in 1994 and the second was from Mac OS 9 to Mac OS X in 2001. This third change promises greater performance for Apple users at reduced power consumption

Okay so there is the cake. Now for the icing. Meet Apple’s Boot Camp. This is Apple’s answer to being able to operate more than one operating system on their computers. Now you can dual boot between Windows and Mac OS! But wait….it gets even better for you penguin lovers! Rumor has it that Linux has now been added to the list of booting possibilities. Dubbed Triple Boot, the tweak for Macs on Intel hardware running Boot Camp is reportedly not for the technically faint-of-heart, because it “chain loads” Linux from an already-installed copy of Windows XP using the LILO boot loader.

So, now I can have the beauty of the Apple, the comfort of my Windows software and the just plain coolness of Linux. Wow, dreams really do come true.