Boot Camp makes it more compelling to buy a Mac nowadays, I think. I talked with a friend on Sunday whose Windows laptop is dying. Now he is thinking about adding a desktop Mac to go along with it, because of Boot Camp. He’ll run Windows and also OS X. I think he’s wanted to go with Mac for a while, but needed to use Windows for some things. What’s interesting is that he’s not particularly geeky. Maybe the iPod Halo Effect will really start kicking in now – he does have a video iPod.

I’m looking at better ways to do Intel testing. I do have great beta testers, but I think there’s nothing like eating your own dog food. And nowadays you have to eat it on your PowerPC plate and your Intel plate. Or is it in Intel bowl and PowerPC bowl?

In any case, I’m looking to buy an Intel iMac. I was justifying this purchase to my wife by telling her about the Intel testing I needed to do. Then I told her about Boot Camp. She did a double take and then said “Oh so the Mac that you were going to get to do Intel testing now does Windows too? Maybe you can wait another month and it’ll do something else.” She’s great and probably her intuition is right. Leopard is coming and I am betting it has some more tricks up its sleeve, like virtualization.