Boot Camp
2 years, 4 months ago 
There have recently been several different contests and attempts to run Windows on the new Intel Macs, with one being particularly successful. However, there were many problems with the lack of driver support on Windows for the various Mac hardware components, and there were certain machines that it didn’t work particularly well. Until today.
It’s called Boot Camp, and is a beta piece of software from Apple to allow you to dual boot Windows XP on any of the new Intel Macs. Because it finds a way to avoid the problems with different types of BIOS, it means that Microsoft’s new operating system, Windows Vista, will also run without a problem using the software.
It is designed to be integrated into the upcoming Leopard operating system from Apple, and I’m really looking forward to seeing what other changes and additions will be present in the next operating system iteration from them.
But what will this new piece of software mean, and how will it affect the reasons people purchase a Mac? Right now in it’s early stages and I imagine that it won’t have a huge impact on sales or switchers. The real effects will begin when it is implemented by default in Leapord. It will become a very stron marketing tool for Apple, eliminating one of the reasons for people refusing to switch to a Mac - ‘I won’t be able to run x, y or z’. Now you will be able to, you’ll be able to run them legally, and you’ll be running them on a very very fast Intel Core Duo machine.
It’s great to be working on a machine built by innovators. Microsoft have another reason to quake in their boots.
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April 6th, 2006 at 12:33 am
I believe the correct spelling is “Leopard” not “Leapord” :).
All I am going to say is that this seems very interesting and that it almost backs up John C. Dvorak’s article about Apple Switching to windows:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1923151,00.asp
April 6th, 2006 at 10:54 am
Thanks Patrick
Spelling corrected!
I just read the article. One question, do you use a Mac?
April 9th, 2006 at 12:52 am
Unfortunately, no :’(. I would absolutely love to own one but I don’t have the money (must go to college!) and even if I did, my parents probably wouldn’t let me buy one.
April 9th, 2006 at 8:23 am
If you used OSX on a regular basis (or of that John Dvorak did), he’d know what a huge step forward it is from Windows, and how much more advanced an operating system it is. Apple have invested way too much time, money and effort into something to just ’switch to Windows’, and it would be like swapping from a Bentley to a Skoda.
April 9th, 2006 at 7:07 pm
Yeah, I totally agree. My school uses OS X on their macs and I love it. I seriously agree that apple has spent so much ‘time, money and effort’ on OS X for them to just switch to windows. I was just stating that this almost supports the article.
My real thoughts are that OS X Leopard will include something similar but instead of booting into windows you can simply run an EXE using windows files and it will emulate the API and such.
April 25th, 2006 at 4:03 pm
“It will become a very stron marketing tool for Apple,”
Strong =P. Love the site, hope you could update more though.