“Apple Computer has again stunned the IT world by producing software that allows the rival Windows operating system to run natively on its new line of Intel chip-equipped Macintosh computers. The Boot Camp software, seen by some as an attack on the soft underbelly of Windows, will be included in Leopard, the forthcoming new version of Apple’s operating system,” Garry Barker writes for The Age. “A free download of the beta version is available on the Apple website (http://www.apple.com/macosx/bootcamp). It requires a user to have legal copies of Microsoft Windows and application software to run under it. Boot Camp will not run on older Macs.”
“Industry analysts say it is a clever move by Apple to gain greater traction for its hardware, particularly its elegant MacBook Pro notebooks, among corporate and business Windows users,” Barker writes. “It will also expose Windows users to the attractions of Apple’s software, and could accelerate switching to Macintosh. Since the arrival of the iPod, Apple’s share of the desktop and portable computer market has almost doubled to just under 6 per cent in the US.”
“Apple’s Unix-based operating system is widely regarded, even among Windows users, as the best software of its kind. By contrast, Microsoft has been forced again to delay delivery of its new Windows system, known as Vista, which has been nearly five years in development,” Barker writes. “Ben Reitzes, an analyst with UBS Investment Research, said Boot Camp might bring Apple ‘significant benefits,’ beginning in its December quarter.”
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My switcher buddies are estatic about Boot Camp. One almost-switcher is REALLY regretting his laptop purchase last week. I advised him to return it and get a MacBook Pro. The fact I have defects with my MBP didn’t help though and I suspect he’ll remain on the dark side for now.
two words…
cha-ching!
Posted earlier, but bears repeating on this thread…
“I’ve got 4 friends buying 4 iMacs this week, switchers all. One of them is getting an additional 4 iMacs for her 4 hair salons. Simply because of the minimalist design. This “xp on a mac” strategy will work.
Porting itunes over to windows was the big boost behind the ipod growth. Now allowing windows users to experience the mac will have the same effect.
Dell and Gateway are going to take a big hit this year.”
Go apple!
What a load! You zealots are too much.
This news is manufactured and phony. Tunes downlaoding is the best that His Steveness can do.
Wake up and smell the pie, fools. You’re day and Apple’s is done.
Apple is a walking dead man. I don’t have time to explain it all to you, because old people are still kicking me at the park.
Losers!
Hey…. truth hurts/mac dude….
good to see you’re still plugging away
YOU MOTHERF-CKERS!!! I’M GONNA F-CKING KILL ALL OF YOU MAC SCUMBAGS.
YOU MAC LOSERS ARE PATHETIC. YOU [ouch!] DON’T GET IT AND NEVER [ouch!] WILL!!!!
I HAVE MORE BRAINPOWER IN MY [thwack!] LEFT NUT THAN ALL OF YOUR FAT ASSES PUT TOGETHER!!! [ouch!]
SUCK IT!! YOU WON’T HAVE MACDUDE/MARY/6 REASONS/TRUTH HURTS TO [thwack!] KICK AROUND ANYMORE!!!
[thwack!] [thwack!] OUCH!! WILL YOU QUIT HITTING ME YOU STUPID OLD BAG?!?!?!?
Jim – the independent voter,
email me please. I’ve got a question for you.
jeff dot self at gmail dot com
um… yeah.
The article was interesting, wasn’t it? [backing away slowly]
Billy Gates “steals” GarageBand
Story ..Here
And Thurott weigh in on “Boot Camp”
thats Over Here
laaaaydeeeee, enough all ready, ow my eye……….
It’s time for Windows users to finally be able to use quality, well designed Apple computers. Intel certainly has a strong incentive here and a huge pile of talented enginners to help Apple succeed.
If OS X goes away, Windows development stops. This has been proven already with Microsoft’s failure to develop Internet Explorer until someone else started innovating in the browser space again.
So, truth hurts, be careful what you wish for…
Thurot wrote:
“A future version of Boot Camp will be included with Mac OS X 10.5 “Leopard,” due in late 2007. That version, presumably, will support Windows Vista as well.”
Huh? Late 2007? Where did he get THAT from??? Oh … wait … perhaps he’s confused OS X 10.5 with Windows Vista (aka “Longwait”). The last I had heard, 10.5 is due out at the end of 2006 … that “twenty-oh-six” … or early in 2007. NOT late.
And Apple had better be ready to do it about then, because at the rate of update releases they’re gonna run out of numbers around December or January.
10.4.5 — February
10.4.6 — April
10.4.7 — June/July
10.4.8 — September
10.4.9 — November
10.4…… ooops … run out of numbers!
It’s time to think holiday season advertising slogans for Apple:
… with Boot Camp you can run Windows XP, the most suckessful operating system on the planet, in your Mac and still get your work done.
Yeah, I’m sure Microsoft’s “Monaco” is going to be a real threat to GarageBand. Just like Windows Movie Maker is an iMovie killer. Just like PaysForSure is killing off iTunes.
And if it’s supposed to ship as part of Windows Vista, that’s what now, sometime in 2008? GarageBand will be at version 5 by then.
Suck it, MaryJo.
RevNeal,
10.4.10
Those aren’t decimals. Ever seen an IP address? Something like 123.456.789.666.
Ohhhhh.
This moron finds the firmware upgrade instructions “confusing”?
Are you kidding me? 4 steps, one of which is if the firmware is not upgraded properly repeat the first 3 steps?
Does this man actually drive a car? If so I think they need to re-examine his ability to operate heavy machinery.
I can’t wait to see what Leopard can do at NAB here in Vegas. Should be eye opening to say the least.
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