The Wall Street Journal’s Walt Mossberg has tested Apple’s new Boot Camp public beta. Mossberg writes that after installing Boot Camp and Windows XP on an Intel-based iMac, Windows ran “blazingly fast,” and all of the Windows applications he tested ran “flawlessly.”
The install time (installing Boot Camp itself plus the Windows installer) came in at 57 minutes, 17 minutes for the Boot Camp install and 40 minutes for Windows XP.
Mossberg did find a few issues – it is a public beta after all – including having to do a clock reset every time Windows is booted (the Mac’s system clock not recognized by Windows). Mossberg also found that he was not able to use Apple’s iSight camera, as Apple points out in their Boot Camp documentation.
Mossberg concludes, “Whether you want to run Mac or Windows programs, an Apple computer may be the only computer you’ll need.”
Full article here.
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FIRST MAYBE! Go Mossberg
I thought this booting XP would be a bad thing and figured Apple had gone mad. The logic I’m reasoning I’m using is that Apple can prevent a anti-trust lawsuit this way. I’m thinking Apple must have something up its sleeve to think this far ahead.
You’ll be missed Dell!… NOT!
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Hey, look at me, I am fourth.
(looked like fun so I wanted to join in too)
Walt!!!
This can’t be bad for Apple. Mac users will still buy Macs, of course. Now Windows users who would love to use Apple’s iLife suite or try OS X can simplly buy a Mac and install the Windows that they already own (or buy a new one, whatever is legal – nudge, nudge, wink, wink). More hardware sales for Apple means more revenue and a larger market share more quickly.
As people experience Mac OS X, they stop using Windows unless they have to. After all, they can’t just switch to Windows, you have to restart (not that Windows users mind doing that – they use Windows, after all). But it’s a hassle to be avoided if at all possible. So they stay in OS X most of the time, and eventually become Mac users.
By flawlessly I’m sure he means they dont run any crappier than you would normally expect them to on a PC.
TO:
Michael Dull
SUBJECT:
Stockholders
Dear Michael,
Please sell your pathetic company and give the money back to the stockholders.
It’s over.
-Steve
PS – Happy Anniversary from Cupertino! LMAO
I have to say, working all day on a piece of sh*t dell with XP, it’s like a vacation to come home at night and use my PowerBook with OS X.
If given the choice between the two operating systems, if the user actually gets in and tests both of them, there is no way OS X can lose.
Though this is a tad off topic, i think it’s funny- in so many ways
Bill Gates: How I Work
I don’t really see how it’s a new launch- but funny nonetheless. And such good timing!
Hey, ‘MacDude’ (where ever you’re hiding, err, cowering):
Would you like some CHEESE with that WHINE????
YOU LOSE, BIATCH!!!
Isn’t this where Apple, having joined that PC speed test group thingy, show how much quicker Windows runs on Apple hardware that it does on Dulls?!?
They smoke the opposition, sell millions more Macs, and convert users to the Mac experience too boot.
Though I still think running PC apps WITHOUT having to install Windows is the Holy Grail…
And Boot Camp can eventually go the way of Classic.
All I have to say is…I called a Qwest rep once while I was rebooting my Mac (he heard the start up sound). He said “At least you get to use a Mac”(this is while I was at work). Followed by a diatribe about how he loves Apple…Apple/Mac is the future.
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“Mossberg concludes, “Whether you want to run Mac or Windows programs, an Apple computer may be the only computer you’ll need.””
Mossberg’s got it right. What has effectively happened today is Macintosh ceases to exist. The iMac etc is just another PC – which happens to run this thing call OS X. Hardware-wise – as of today – there IS no Macintosh anymore!
It wont be long before Apple drops the ‘Macintosh’ brand name altogether – firstly from its hardware and then from its software. The alternative OS that Windows people find on their Apple PC will simply be called Apple OS X.
Why? because ‘Macintosh’ is just a name – and an old name which has become an obstacle to Apple and its ambitions – with a legacy of negative associations amongst the PC masses that is hard to shift. This is why Apple have held back at throwing millions of dollars “up-hill -advertising”(TM) a product name just to leverage people’s perceptions towards – at the very best – a less negative idea of what the “Macintosh” might be. Wouldn’t it be better for Apple to rapidly establish a (pedigreed) presence in the PC market and then start REALLY throwing its massive reserves at advertising only “Apple OS X*” (*Apple PC required)?
Expect Windows OS package displays in all Apple Stores soon.
I think Mossberg is blazingly fast!!
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The Mac will continue to exist. What will change is the expectation of what a PC can do. Suddenly, those dull boxes do seem dull. This will be interesting.
Yeah Twenty, you got it right — that would explain why Apple has replaced the “i” in ibook with an emphasis on “mac” in macbook. Freakin moron.
Mossberg concludes, “Whether you want to run Mac or Windows programs, an Apple computer may be the only computer you’ll need.”
CHECKMATE!
Rock on Steve
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… One more thing®
All those boneheads that have been shorting AAPL, how smart do you feel now? Hear that tapping at your chamber door? Yea, it’s your broker and they want their stock back.
Next time wear a diaper before you go shorting AAPL and end up pissing yourself.
I am surprised that the state of the art 64-bit architecture can so easily down shift to antiquated Windows 32-bit mode.
The question is: The fans, how are they running now?
Twenty Benson,
I think you might be on to something there. I think it might be better to call it Mac OS. The X part is awkward. People find it gimmicky. I do too. Everyone knows Macintoshes to have Mac OS. They don’t care that it’s OS X, they just hear that it’s been changed in really exciting ways. It is still a Mac though.
I think Apple would be foolish to abandon a brand name as recognised as Macintosh. I don’t want them to pull a Napster, but most people who knew the “Classic” Mac OS speaks of Macs with great effection, even if they still don’t take them seriously as a Windows alternative since switching to the dark side years ago.
Other people are looking at this as a way to get a Mac, which everyone knows is vastly superior hardware-wise. They know Mac OS is very easy to use and powerful. They do expect compatibility to be an issue though. These people will buy a Mac and dual-boot. They want a Mac, not a fruit.
Besides, Macintosh is a platform, like Newton was. Did they call Newton OS, “Apple OS”? Would they call the OS in an iPod, “Apple OS”? Seems inconsistent to call the Mac OS, “Apple OS X”. What’s the X for? Ten. It was a bold demarkation from the “Classic” OS. Going forward after Leopard, we will have Mac OS 11. You heard it here first!
My MacBook Pro made an immediate switcher. He’s estatic that he’ll b able to run Windows stuff on it. I don’t even know why. He has a PC at home and berely uses it, it’s always broken. The mere perceived ability to run Windows stuff throws down the emotional barrier; the safety net is Windows. The World will soon change.
Maybe Apple is also using this as an anti-trust smokescreen like somethin|Splif posted earlier. Apple will be in a litigation frienzy when they start taking huge chunks of PC marketshare. With their vertical-market model, there’s no room for Dell et al in the ecosystem. A self-sustaining organism has no competition. Smart people with lots of money are going to work very hard to prevent the Apple PC-market takeover by mudslinging and lawsuits.
In the meantime, we’ll get Leopard. There’s been some crazy rumors out there, but I never believed Apple would make such a deep thought into the dual-booting Windows problem. If you haven’t done it, you don’t know. Apple has put a dynamic partitioning program in the Boot Camp setup. It does everything in a couple simple steps. The hardest part is remembering which end of the CD goes up!
When Windows converts get a Mac and see how easy it is to do what is expected to be a very difficult task, they will think real hard about what they are doing installing Windows. They’ll start to poke around and see what else is there.
I expect a Windows convert getting their Mac and turning it on. After the initial setup they’ll just stare at the screen for a while wondering what the fsck (they won’t know that command) to do next. They might find the Applications folder, or they might find the spotlight symbol. They might type in “Boot Windows” and find Boot Camp. finding and using Boot Camp will be so shocking that they will be very curious about what else these Macs do. Appreciation will grow with each application they discover.
well naybe some Window using plebs will find it compelling, however I will not bother with Windows…
The iSight doesnt work! Apple said that a USB keyboard is required but my bluetooth is working right now! I just let windows search the internet for the driver, it found it, installed it and it worked.
I installed this whole mess just to play Half Life 2