New and Noteworthy: Walt Mossberg's take on Boot Camp; Apple Creates Braeburn Capital to Manage .7 Billion Stash; more

Walt Mossberg's take on Boot Camp Walt Mossberg from the Wall Street Journal sings praises for Boot Camp in his column, saying "In Windows mode, the iMac was blazingly fast -- far faster than my two-year-old H-P Windows computer. And every function of Windows I tested, including Web browsing, email and music playback, ran flawlessly. In fact, I wrote this column in Windows on the iMac, using the Windows version of Microsoft Word. And I emailed it to my editors using Outlook Express, the built-in email program in Windows. When I was done using Windows, I just restarted the Mac and the machine turned back into a regular Macintosh, running the Mac operating system and Mac software." More.

Apple Creates Braeburn Capital to Manage $8.7 Billion Stash Mac Observer reports that Apple has set up Braeburn Capital, a Nevada-based corporation that will manage the company's US$8.7 billion hoard of cash and short-term investments and take advantage of the state's loose tax laws. BusinessWeek's Arik Hesseldahl noted that Apple's cash position is up 91% from the $4.6 billion it had at the end of 2003; the company is also debt-free. More.

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• Drivers included on the Boot Camp Mac Windows XP drivers CD
• What will not work in Windows XP on an Intel-based Mac
• mac.column.ted: Apple's April Surprise: XP on a Mac!
• Firmware update (required for installing Boot Camp) will not install if previous Windows XP hack was attempted
• Apple announces Boot Camp: Enables Intel-based Macs to Run Windows XP
• Mac OS X 10.4.6 (#3): iSync issues; Update failure fixes; Fix for Photoshop crash-on-save; Font issues, fixes; more

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