“Apple’s new tool to enable Intel-based Macintosh computers to run Microsoft Windows XP could lure more PC users to Mac hardware, but support and performance questions remain, solution providers said,” Russell Redman reports for CRN. “Plans call for the final version of Boot Camp to be part of Mac OS X 10.5 “Leopard,” the next major release of the Mac operating system, due to be previewed in August at the Apple Worldwide Developer Conference in San Francisco.
“Boot Camp gives Windows PC users more incentive to switch to the Mac because they can use one computer to run Windows and Mac applications, said Sonny Tohan, CEO of Mac Business Solutions, a Gaithersburg, Md.-based Apple solution provider,” Redman reports. “Mac customers that needed to purchase inexpensive PCs to handle functions that required Windows apps will no longer have to do so, Tohan said. ‘The biggest loser out of this is Dell. We’ve got so many clients who buy Macs to do most of their Mac stuff and then buy a cheap Dell to run certain [Windows] apps that they couldn’t run on the Mac. Well, they won’t be buying that anymore.'”
“Boot Camp could sway a ‘huge percentage’ of PC users to go to the Mac, said George Swords, marketing manager at PowerMacPac, a Portland, Ore.-based Apple VAR,” Redman reports. “‘The biggest issue of all is going to be for end users to understand that when they install Windows on their computer, they’ll be responsible for the support of that,’ Swords said… Boot Camp also may not prove practical to users because they would have to reboot their computers to switch between the Mac and Windows environments, said Apple specialist David Salav, president of Webistix, a Holbrook, N.Y., solution provider. ‘I’m not sure if it serves a useful purpose right now,’ he said. ‘When they create a scenario where you could have fast user switching between the two operating systems, then that would be good.'”
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By the time Leopard arrives, it won’t be Boot Camp (although that may be an option), it will be fast OS switching with an option to suspend activity on one OS while working in the other. Better offer 8 Gigs of RAM in laptops.
Time to advertise. ” Whats windoz doing inside a Mac”
Dell will come back – they’ll just do something creative..
You know, better marketing…
Maybe “Dell Fuglion – it’s a Dell PC with an even UGLIER design!”
Or maybe “Buy a Dell, get a mail-in rebate for a free prostrate exam!”
It could happen.
I’m hoping this is just a warm up for the REAL MS/Dell slayer, a way to run Windows apps (read that as Office and Games) without having to load or run that large piece of malware known as Windows XP or its mythical step child Vista
‘When they create a scenario where you could have fast user switching between the two operating systems, then that would be good.’
I can switch between my mac and windows partition on my new iMac in less than a minute. No real delay there. It boots AMAZINGLY fast in both os’s
Every other desktop PC is now obsolete before leaving the assembly line.
MDN word: Period.
…and yes I know Office for Mac exists but the majority of Pee Cee users don’t, heck I doubt most of them know OS X exists…..
Paul Thurrot review Boot Camp; Says Leopard will ship in LATE 2007 and that Mac marketshare is barely 2 percent.. Idiot.
http://www.winsupersite.com/reviews/apple_boot_camp.asp
Oh yeah, Thurrot also complains about Boot Camp being “overly simplistic.” See above link.
Boot camp is a clever title. It conveys two things:
1) the option of booting in both OS X and Windows
and
2) Working in windows is comparable to the torture that is going to boot camp.
The patent reads that Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux will run simultaneously with the virtualization layer making all data copy/paste ready across operating systems.
When Leopard ships, game on.
I love all the articles over the last week.
Maybe. Might. Could.
Anyway. The real killer will be if Apple figures out a way to run Windows apps in OSX and somehow apply the OSX interface look and feel.
There is your holy grail. There is your Dell killer. There is your MS killer.
Almost without fail the first thing a Windows user tells me about his or her machine is how cheaply they bought their computer.
The second thing they brag to me is how many applications they they can run despite having about a dozen or so applications loaded on their hard drives, using about half of those with any regularity.
Third thing they go on and on about is all the trouble with adware, viruses, OS problems and the like.
Point is that many, many people will continue to buy cheapo boxes and feel that they are getting the same thing as a Mac. They balk at the price of a Mac without really knowing the big difference between the two.
Schools, government agencies and businesses are three biggies that I can think of off hand.
Redman’s point is well taken, however. I believe that a lot of people will buy a Mac now because of Boot Camp.
The Mac has a great OS, industrial design and the hardware is very reliable. And I hope that 10.5 has the APIs and such to run Windows and Linux programs in a Darwine-like fashion.
Macromancer is right! That’s what I’m talking about!!!!
“I can switch between my mac and windows partition on my new iMac in less than a minute. No real delay there. It boots AMAZINGLY fast in both os’s”
Yeah, but you can’t currently carry clip board items from one OS to the other because of the, albeit fast, shutdown/restart.
Here’s a priceless screenshot of Paul’s newly installed XP on a Mini.
Kinda says it all, eh?
It would be nice if Apple included a set of Windows-2000 drivers, so I don’t have to buy any more M$oft S/W.
i think Apple is testing the waters with boot camp to see the intrest level in it. Then when Leopard hits they will have a program that would let you run windows apps on the Mac without installing windows. They will also tell the Software companies to make thier programs universal and the software that Apple will supply them with will make sure that thier program will run on both platforms.
Now we can all say….
we were mac users before the renaissance
Intel = Crap
Windows = Crap
But Now:
Intel = GREAT!!!
XP running on a Mac = GREAT!!!
You sheeptards crack me up.
And you notice how no XPs on Apple have gotten any viruses???
Weren´t all the Macwidget heads just screaming a day or two ago about how you start up XP and there are virus and adware and malware infesting it?
No virus or adware on my version of XP.
This is from Therrots article;
… (There is also a new Startup Disk control panel that Apple adds to XP; this allows you to tell it to boot into XP or Mac OS X on the next boot without having to access the boot menu. To my knowledge, there is not a similar applet added to OS X.) I feel this system is overly simplistic, and should be made to work more like the Windows boot menu we get on PCs….
Umm…Sytem Preferences>Startup Disc
how can someone who writes a tech column and claims to have actually used OS X not have a clue what’s in the System Preferences?
I personally never have had any issues with Intel, However I do believe Windows is CRAP.
I also believe that XP running on a Mac is GREAT, not because I will ever want to use it but because 90% percent of computer users in the world do.
XP on a Mac = More Macs sold = AAPL goes up = good for me!
Who you calling a Sheeptard!
Apple ought to rename “boot camp” to “checkmate”.
Paul’s site also has this little nugget of inside information:
“A future version of Boot Camp will be included with Mac OS X 10.5 “Leopard,” due in late 2007. “
He’s hoping.. He’s really hoping…