Windows Vista Phones Home

[Lemur]

I haven't personally used Boot Camp (my Mac is a pre-Intel flavor), but I know several people who have it up and running. It's very nice, by all reports. Check it out. Free download from Apple.

The essential thing is to create a partition for your Windows loving. After that, it's just a question of which OS you want to boot into. It does, in fact, work for gaming.

If you want to get even slicker, there's Parallels, which allows you to run Windows in a, well, window. In other words, you can switch on the fly from an OS X environment to a Windows window. Not so good for gaming, however; it's intended for business apps.

Don't worry about the BSD Unix. My friend's complaint, in essence, is that Apple took an industrial-strength Unix environment and made it n00b-friendly. Unix guys hate that. Personally, I think it's very cool.

I've used Windows and Max OS X for years, and I've dabbled in Linux. If I have to choose an OS for a non-tech person, and they don't have some legacy app they have to use, I steer them towards Mac. It's harder to break, harder to mess up, and generally more forgiving to the user. Oh, you can break it, but unlike Windows, you have to really know what you're doing to make it go wonky.