New Macs are out - dual core PC chip:

MacBook Pro At a Glance
15.4-inch widescreen display
1.67 or 1.83GHz Intel Core Duo
667MHz frontside bus and main memory
PCI Express architecture
Up to 120GB Serial ATA hard drive
ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 with up to 256MB memory on 16-lane PCI Express
ExpressCard/34 slot
Dual-link DVI, VGA adapter included
One FireWire 400 port, two USB 2.0 ports
Optical digital and analog audio I/O, built-in microphone and stereo speakers
Slot-loading SuperDrive
Illuminated keyboard, Scrolling TrackPad
Built-in AirPort Extreme (802.11g), Bluetooth 2.0+EDR and Gigabit Ethernet
Mac OS X Tiger with iLife ’06 featuring iWeb, iWork ’06 trial and more

Last I heard, the deal with Microsoft to continue to produce Office on Apple also included an agreement that Apple would not ‘actively’ try and stop XP from being installed…so I don’t think it’s as simple as putting in the CD, but it shouldn’t be too hard either.

Erik

The power of geekdom will get Windows running on these, only a matter of time, nothing can stop the geeks! 

With the announcement of the first Intel based Macs yesterday, many users have rejoiced in being able to dual-boot both Mac OS X and Windows. Unfortunately, this is not the case; due to Apple’s use of the extensible firmware interface (EFI) rather than BIOS, current Windows releases will not run on the systems.

On Tuesday at Macworld, Apple senior vice president of worldwide product marketing Phil Schiller said the company would not specifically block the use of Windows on Mac hardware. Instead, limitations in Windows itself will prevent its use on the new MacBook Pro laptop and iMac.

From http://www.betanews.com/article/XP_Wont_Run_on_Intel_MacBook_iMac/1137003330

Thanks for finding the quote on the not specifically blocking XP part…that’s what I was talking about.

Here’s an article that says it’s prob. possible:

Erik