Hell freezes over? Intel Macs dual-boot between OS X and Windows

To remarkably little fanfare (some of the Mac news sites I read haven't even published the news yet), Apple released a beta version (called "Boot Camp") of the next version of OS X – one that allows users with new Macs based on the Intel chip set to boot their computers either into OS X or Windows XP. This will be highly convenient in the future as there are a few specific tasks that I need to accomplish with Windows, but overall I'm not crying in my beer about the fact that I don't have a Macbook Pro. Especially since it has a dumb name like "Macbook Pro."

I kept checking the announcement article on Apple's site for signs that it might be an April Fool's hoax, but no such signs jumped out at me. I'm sure that, if that is the case, we'll know soon enough.

[Thanks to Scott for the early morning e-mail pointing this out.]