Boot Camp for CAD

CADalyst has an interesting two-part series on what Apple's Boot Camp means for CAD software. (Boot Camp allows Intel-based Apple computers to run Windows XP and related applications.)

Kenneth Wong interviewed a number of CAD vendors for their thoughts -- which turn out to be mostly negative. Brian Mathews of Autodesk provides this summary:

Apple's move to Intel x86 technology is more significant than Boot Camp. The ads and the marketing literature that came out of Apple and Intel mentioned this, but no one really explained to the end user why this would benefit them. Something like Boot Camp is made possible because of Apple's move to Intel. With a common processor, it becomes far easier to support multiple platforms, and Autodesk customers will ultimately benefit when they wish to run Autodesk software solutions.

Part one.
Part two.