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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I’ve seen a couple headlines saying Apple uses Windows now. It made me cringe. This is bad, very bad.
Those headlines will bring attention. It’s all good.
Apple should release the iWheel for cars. It would have to be something like this:
http://customwheel.com/custom_wheels/pimpstar.html
Read it for free here:
http://ptech.wsj.com/ptech.html
all i really feel like adding to all of this is, am i the only one who noticed that apple does microsoft’s windows flag logo better than microsoft does?
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MW: met. apple’s boot camp software was met with mixed feelings.
“or start up, the Mac in either operating system”
I’ve thought of Mac as the software, now THE MAC is hardware. Time to adjust my identity settings.
At last Gates can go to the next CES and give a demo that doesn’t end with the Blue Screen of Death – by using a Mac !!
Ya’ gotta stop saying “Good-Bye Dell” everytime Apple is mentioned in the news. I’m a Mac Fanatic, but I’m able to see that other companies do some pretty amazing stuff sometimes too, better than Apple.
For instance, Dell UltraSharp LCD’s consistently beat Apple displays when they are compared head to head. The reasoning is usually that they offer the same picture quality (Dell maybe a bit better), but Dell offers more inputs (DVI, component, analog, etc) and a lower price. I use them for graphics design and work, and I find them top notch.
This is a small example (honestly, specifically between Dell and Apple, that may be the ONLY one), but it goes to show that there are smart people working for other companies, and they will probably survive in the face of tribulation. Deep down, I bet Dell and HP are just begging for Apple to weaken the Microsoft hegemony, because not having an 800lb Gorilla in the ring makes it easier for many more companies to innovate and profit.
I just reread my post, and dang is it scatterbrained.
bill gates really sounded like a looooooooser in that article.
Commercial script for Apple:
1. It runs your old Windows applications and games blazingly fast (images showing lots of new pc games cut together)
2. It runs all modern software on the state of the art Mac OS Leopard operating system (images showing Final cut, Aperture, Motion, iLife, iWork)
3. We present The Mac family – The best of two worlds. (A parade of beautiful hardware passes by, iMac, Macbook, Macbook Pro, Mac Pro)
4. Apple
Twentybenson – I look to the day when the Windows operating system becomes an option to order installed when one buys a Mac….er, Apple computer.
Not to mention all the PC games available one can now run (that are not avaialable for the Mac) one can also run:
Microsoft Access, Outlook and Publisher; ACT!; Adobe Photoshop Album; Microsoft Money; Family Tree Maker; Microsoft Flight Simulator; Microsoft Age of Empires, Expression, Xara vector illustration program.
Plus Quicken for Windows is better than the Mac version.
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Moho animation program runs faster on PC than Mac.
(Plus you can run all the anti-virus and adware programs
Any other Windows-only programs we can now run???
“Blazingly Fast” – This term sucks. MacMall (arguably the worst and most crooked Mac mailorder company) has been plastering “Blazingly Fast” on their catalogs for over 10 years. Can’t we come up with some new descriptive language?
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.
God I HATED the old MacOS. It was a better interface than Windows, but try doing more than one thing and the whole thing would crash or come to a halt, manually managing memory, ugh. I was thrilled when Apple went with a *nix, and jumped over soon after.
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Though this is a tad off topic, i think it’s funny- in so many ways
Bill Gates: How I Work”
Ozzy that was great but I don’t understand how the richest man in the world fills his office with Dell computers. Of course the article said that all he does all day is meet people and answer email. So I guess that’s all he needs.
Ray, the Intel Macs are not 64 bit (yet).
If people loved windows xp so much they’d stick to their current pc or an affordable $500 dell pc.
I did not want or need Windblows before, I do not want or need it now.
There is no way in hell I will screw my computer up by letting it get infested with all the virus, trojan, malware, spyware crap that will certainly start popping up on those XP partitions.
It is only a matter of time before someone is able to screw with the Mac partition from something they slipped in from the XP partition.
djenurm,
The iSight will probably never work as I don’t expect Apple to make a windows driver for the iSight camera.
As for the bluetooth, Apple said you needed a usb keyboard for the install as the windows installer does not support bluetooth. Once installed, bluetooth should work fine.
4 apple users that want to run games or other pc only software.
Dell won’t disappear. Corporate America will continue to buy Dell. Dell may lose some home users, but many of them just see what they use at office and buy same thing. Unless, smart IT realize most employee really only need Mac mini core duo or even solo. May be Apple just need TO
introduce black version of Mac mini to break into the corporate world (That will be nice. Mac mini with Dell’s black monitor and keyboard. I can live with that.)