Macs do Windows, too

Posted by admin, Wed Apr 05 03:28:00 UTC 2006

Picture Lori’s jaw dropping and hitting her desk…

Apple – Boot Camp

More and more people are buying and loving Macs. To make this choice simply irresistible, Apple will include technology in the next major release of Mac OS X, Leopard, that lets you install and run the Windows XP operating system on your Mac. Called Boot Camp (for now), you can download a public beta today.

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  1. Craig 04.05.06 / 04AM
    This surprises you? ;) I think the following sentence explains a lot of what Apple does these days: "Gosh, iPods/iTunes are sure profitable."
  2. lori 04.05.06 / 04AM
    Well, I am amazed that Apple would do this. Actually, given all the hype, and that recent contest for people who tried to do this without Apple's help, I find it ironic that Apple has obviously been working on it all along. I wonder if those hax0rs are regretting the time/effort they wasted ;-)
  3. Jay Guidos 04.05.06 / 05AM
    Well really... all you Mac guys are just Windows wannabees. This is just the proof everyone needed. Come back to the Windows fold my little sheep! Back to the world where windows are truely ugly, security stops everything useful from happening (but does nothing to stop malicious code), and every 3 days we get yet another update to Windows Media Player. But new OSs get delayed... and delayed... and delayed....
  4. trever 04.07.06 / 10AM
    dual-boot, tthpptttt! What you want is virtualization so that you can run both os's at once, hopefully with cut and paste working between them, drag and drop file transfer between their desktops etc. Ala VMWare on Linux/Windows. You know, paravirtualization. No, I'm not talking about that stinky VirtalPC. That one is a crutch at best. Like, oh that thing over at http://www.parallels.com/ Of course, many suspect Lepoard aka OS X v 10.5 will ship with paravirtualization as standard. But a free beta and $50 when the parallels thing is release is pretty darn cheap too. Especially if you already have winders install disks laying around. Me, the only annoying things I need to fire up VirtualPC for on the G4 powerbook here are .. Visio (to save it as viso xml and then transfer back to mac to work with in Omnigraffle), and vmware console.
  5. lori 04.07.06 / 11AM
    All I need Windoze for is testing my web application with IE. If it was not for that, I wouldn't need it at all. That Parallels thing is going to be really sweet. I downloaded it, but I have not had time to do a WinXP install yet. Probably Monday...

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