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MacBook Pros Across Akihabara Running Windows XP

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Reader Warren emailed to say:

I was wandering around Shinjuku and noticed that in every store selling Macs, well over half of them were running Windows through BootCamp! All the actual OSX machines could be found stuffed in corners with crappy old iBooks. Guess Apple found a way to finally market their computers; Microsoft.

He didn’t provide us with a photo to confirm so we did a Googling and found the shot above at the PinoyMac.org forums, taken by poster bmsantillan at the (fake) Mac Store in Akihabara. We can understand how this might raise a few eyebrows, especially among you Windows nuts and Apple die-hards out there, but John Gruber expresses our sentiment best:

Instead of choosing between a Windows PC or a Mac—which decision, as I wrote recently, for most people is more accurately stated as “choosing between a familiar Windows PC or an unfamiliar Mac”—you now get to choose between a computer that can only run Windows or a computer that can run both Windows and Mac OS X.

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