I’m running Windows Vista RTM on my MacBook Pro, and B.’s MacBook, using BootCamp 1.1.2 (seems like I just typed that same sentence… ;-).

This works great (so far Vista is fantastic), though some bravery is required because you have to jump through some hoops to get the various hardware pieces working correctly because the installer for the Windows drivers you get with BootCamp 1.1.2 is not compatible with Vista. D’oh! I’m going to try to blog about these hoop jumps to help out other folks trying this. I have some extra resources to draw on since I work at Microsoft and am a Macintosh Business Unit alumni so hopefully I can mitigate some pain.

Some may ask why. Sigh. This is a good question. I had intended to use the MacOS for my personal computing stuff, like managing pictures, music, and email, but I found I just don’t have the bandwidth to setup my life on two platforms. Managing large amounts of data across multiple machines is tough enough, but managing large amounts of data across multiple machines on multiple platforms makes me want to pop a Nerf cap in my temple. Pop. Thump. Ow. Basically I gave up even trying the two platform thing. Either way, though, the MacBook family of hardware is so great it makes me drool like Homer Simpson looking at a display case of donuts. Mmmm…. macbooks…. drooool… slurp…. So to me it’s worth it to run on Apple hardware.

Stay tuned for more posts on this topic.