No - BootCamp (at least in Tiger: don't know what the story in Leopard is) is the facility that allows the disc partitioning. AND it was only ever beta software in that version - you should read some of the horror stories in the blogs! When it went wrong, it went wrong bigtime.

In any case, Apple have now withdrawn the BootCamp download for Tiger (I assume it's attained Alpha status in Leopard). Theoretically the Tiger user can partition the hard drive him/herself (that's what they told me in the shop) but in reality there are no firm instructions and it's not clear at all, and being such a newbie I was worried about screwing something up; and - get this - even the HELPLINE couldn't do it! I finally took the puter back to the shop and got them to partition the HD for me and install the Windows OS. (It means wiping everything on the drive, but at that stage I didn't have anything on there to wipe.)

It now works fine, but I find I need faster & more direct switchover, which is what Parallels is supposed to be about - though the paranoid in me is a little worried that access to Windows is also access to their security problems. I only use the internet in Apple (via both Safari and Firefox, who get along beautifully) so am hoping that cyber baddies won't sneak in my Windows somehow. (Like with those macros that can lurk in Word documents - ??)

But for Leopard users, I think BootCamp may well be just the thing -