Today, Rob asks:

I am planning on buying a mac when leopard is released and I was thinking about running xp with boot camp. Then I thought would Wubi work on the xp side of things if I was using boot camp?

Awesome news on the upcoming Mac purchase, I am sure you will love it. As for adding Wubi to your XP install on the Mac, I think you might simply be better off sticking with OS X and XP. Think I am nuts? Let me explain. First of all, you ought to realize that OS X and Linux share a lot of the same funcionality. Heck, you can even run some Linux applications on OS X directly. If you are bent on it, you may find some help here. I would remind you that it is quite geeky and frankly, I would not do this on our Mac as I prefer standalone machines to dual and tri-booting any day of the week.

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Tags: dual-booting, os x, windows