Dual Booting an Intel Mac - Are you insane?

OK, Ted here has a point: We should be past the need for dual booting. Now if everyone out there is willing to drop the money on VMWare and VirtualPC, then more power to them. But I believe most people want to run their alternative OS’ native so that all of the speed is there when they need it.

I’m really surprised by the furor over dual (or even triple booting) Intel Macs. It’s perfectly legitimate to want to run some Windows or Linux (or OpenBSD, or GNU Hurd, or L4 or Plan9) on your Intel based Macintosh. It’s just that rebooting into a different operating system is so 20th century. The only explanation I can think of is that people are forgetting about technologies like VMWare, VirtualPC, Xen, and Bochs. When I used an Intel box regularly (not that long ago), I had triple boot. It was a nightmare. Managing all the different partition types, figuring out how to layout the partitions so they could boot, and so on. That was bad enough. But rebooting?! [Read the rest]