According to a new support document from Apple, the OS X utility Boot Camp—which allows a Mac owner to run Windows on a separate partition—now allows only Windows 7 to be installed in a fresh OS X Lion installation. This is because version 4 of Boot Camp that comes with OS X Lion requires an authentic 32- or 64-bit Windows 7 Home Premium, Professional, or Ultimate disc.

I have been using the Safari 4 beta for a little over 24 hours now on both Windows XP/Vista and OS X Tiger/Leopard. Apart from the slight learning curve (where’d my Tab bar go?!), I have to say, I love the OS X version. The Windows side of things is, decidedly, a mixed bag. Apple appears to have answered several major criticisms, though I’m not sure this is entirely a good thing.

The release notes detail several major improvements, the first of which is the ability to take an unlimited amount of “Snapshots” of your virtual machine (formerly, you could only have one). The Snapshot feature allows you to save the machine’s settings in a particular state, and return it to that exact state (useful in testing software). Fusion 2 can now also be set up to take Snapshots at regular intervals.

Everyone loves the comedy in the Get a Mac ads, but what do consumers really like the most? Windows, Mac and even Linux are all of different in their own way, but why do you choose each one. Ubuntu got a 4.5 on a scale of 0 – 5, which makes sense as its free more »