Thurrott likes the MacBook...that's good, right?

Keeping up with his recent tradition of destroying the status quo and confusing the Mac world by praisingAppleproducts, Paul "Closet Fanboy" Thurrott recently bought himself one of those slick new white MacBooks and put it through its paces...primarily by installing Windows and seeing if it behaves well as a standard PC. His conclusion? Yes, yes it does. In fact, Thurrott writes, "I've thrown my entire collection of always-installed applications at the MacBook, and the performance has been incredible, quite a bit better than any of the low-end Windows notebooks I've tried over the years.... Overall, I'm quite satisfied... Apple has a winner on its hands." Thurrott also discusses some roadblocks (right-click, anyone?) and how he got around them.

So, let's mark that off on our Impending Apacolypse checklist:

• Apple Makes iTunes Available on Windows - Check

• Apple Switches to Intel - Check

• Apple Enables Windows to Run on Macs - Check

• Paul Thurrott Buys a Mac to Run Windows - Check

All that's left is "Apple Switches OS X to Windows Kernel" and "Bill Gates Becomes CEO of Apple" and we'll have a full-blown Revelation-esque Judgement Day ahead of us. Stock up on canned goods, folks.

On a slightly related note: On his blog, Thurrott wonders how well Vista will run on the MacBooks, considering they don't have a dedicated video card. I also wonder this -- so let's hear it: have you installed Vista on a MacBook? How does it work?

[via MacDailyNews]