Yep! It's true... people have a hard time believing it, but it's true. Not only true but it's also faster than your average PC. And it does Aero. Click-on the pic and see the transparencies and all. Trust me on this... I been there! All fine and it does it kinda slick... Only... (dammit, there is always a friggin' 'yes but'...) only, I was saying... it crashes. Big time... I mean, with blue friggin' screen of death and all... you get memory dumps and a scary character based screen as if you were busy on a retarded IBM 3270, for cryin' out loud. As if your average user had a clue what's goin' on! What were they thinkin'? What's so wrong with those MSFT developers? Good thing though, Vista seems to recover on the next restart... not like the good old pre-Vista Windows versions that meant your system went to the cleaners... and you had to start all over again with installs and recovery, if that last ever worked, so to say... I reckon (just a gut-feel by seeing when crashes occur) it all depends on the hardware on your specific Mac; I suspect the graphics card is screwing this up. I am saying this because same Vista appears to be quite stable on a Macbook. But not on the iMac shown here. Eventually, I decided to abandon good lookin' Aero and to fall back to the Windows classic look-and-feel. Other than its ugly old look, this one seems to crash less. I guess with Leopard around the corner, they may well improve their Windows graphics drivers and maybe the crashes will go away. You see, no software developers are God smart. Apple's are close but still... they all make mistakes... think of my adventures with OSX crashing everytime I looked at the screen as a result of their recent bug-fixin' update...Anyways, this WinMac marriage seems fine... and you know what? If you are taken by the Mac slick and super-sexy hardware, but you want to run Windows on this (what an idiot), don't forget that if one solution gives you some trouble (Bootcamp for instance, like shown here) you can always try Parallels or the VMware equivalent. It might cost you a few bucks more compared to the free Bootcamp, but what the heck... your spouse or girlfriend also spends a fortune on the hairdresser, right? :-)
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