“Boot Camp is for those people who need to occasionally run programs or access services that are unavailable on the Mac. Apple isn’t selling or bundling Windows, and Boot Camp offers only dual-boot capability: You can start up the Mac in either Mac OS X or Windows, but not both,” Jeff Carlson writes for The Seattle Times. “So is this a baby step toward Apple selling Windows machines? Not likely. Apple’s computers are beautiful and induce envy in even the staunchest Windows lover, but day to day you don’t operate a computer, per se, just as you don’t go home and eat a table for dinner.”
“Even given Apple’s engineering feats, it’s Mac OS X that delivers the Macintosh experience,” Carlson writes. “Okay, if Mac OS X is so wonderful, why not forget hardware and license Mac OS X to computer makers, and thereby out-Microsoft Microsoft?”
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Sketchtrain” for the heads up.]
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THURROT’S BOOT CAMP REVIEW!
http://www.winsupersite.com/reviews/apple_boot_camp.asp
Regardless of any naysayers, BOOT CAMP is working!
I went into the Apple store at South Coast Plaza last night and it was packed with Windows switchers testing out the new Macs. I was just buying an iPod A/V cable, but the guy at the checkout counter said it has been an absolute madhouse since Boot Camp was announced.
He said they have probably sold more Macs in the past three days than they did in the previous three weeks before BC!
Hey guys, we just configured an iMac to boot EXCLUSIVELY into WinXP
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Just follow all the instructions for BootCamp. Then when installing XP make sure to DELETE all the existing partitions and install XP on all the available space.
The bootloader remains, and XP is the only OS on the system.
Sweeeeeeeeeeeet
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MDM word: last (as in the “last” hurrah of OS X?
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Cubert,
I believe they will license Mac OS X the Apple way. What’s that?
I still don’t know, but Steve will come with some real clever way of doing it.
It seems obvious that that won’t be for generic beige boxes, but for some select partners. That this will occur I truly believe.
If someone told me 3 years ago that Apple would drop ppc for intel and help someone run Windows on a Mac, I would laugh my skull off, but from what’s coming from Cupertino recently, I now believe everything is possible (and nothing is real).
Is Boot Camp a baby step toward Apple selling Windows machines?
YES, VISTA
Hey you guys can run whatever garbage OS you wish to but the fact remains that OS X is the by far the best OS in the world. So knock yourself out installing inferior OS’s “EXCLUSIVELY” on superior hardware. Apple makes the money anyway.
And excuse my typos. I haven’t slept in days
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Yeah, Macheads. I bought an iMac and all my other Windows friends bought iMacs, too, and guess what? We deleted OS X and all our machines are running XP exclusively. Ha, ha, ha. We won the OS war, we won the OS war!!! We beat you guys silly. Wait’ll we get our iMacs with Merom. Apple is history.
(Just a joke, peeps.)
MacDud, if everyone runs out and buys a mac just to run windows, well Apple will win big time.
Remember we’re talking about Apple, not Mac. Well OK maybe they’re the same thing. An Apple computer is the only computer at this point in time which can legaly (without hacks) run both OSX and XP. Come to think of it, it could probably run all the other windows flavours below XP as well.
MDM, are you telling me you bought an iMac just to load XP onto? Why didn’t you by a Dell or HP for 2 thirds the price. Oh and have fun upgrading the bits to play games smoothly.