Dual Booting and Virtualisation on the Intel Mac
With Apple’s release of Boot Camp for the IntelMacs, they have given official support for installing Windows on their machines. While it is cool that people will not have to resort to hacking their Macs to dual boot with Windows and OSX, I think a more preferable route is virtualization. Which co-incidentally, Core Duo processors support natively. Parallels Workstation(currently in beta) seems to fill this void quite nicely, claiming near native performance for the hypervisor based technology.
Apple has also announced that although it supports dual booting systems on its Intel Macs, the company does not plan on releasing any virtualisation products. Which leaves the market open for vendors like VMWare and Parallels to provide their own virtualisation products.