Apple Boot Camp
Now that they’re using Intel processors and after a group of hackers managed to get Windows running on an Intel Mac, Apple have announced Boot Camp. Boot Camp is basically a bit of dual-booting software for Intel Macs that allows you to choose between Mac OS X or Windows XP at boot-up.
It’s available now in beta and will come standard with the next major release of OS X (Leopard). I imagine it’ll do its intended job very well too - encouraging people like me who are still iffy on taking the plunge and getting a Mac to feel a bit safer in the knowledge that their new Mac can always fall back to XP when needed.
It’ll be interesting to see how XP compares in terms of performance on Apple hardware, but it has put the idea of getting a Mac Mini back in my mind to check OS X out.
I wonder if we’ll start seeing OS X able to run on non-Apple PCs now that the two operating systems can clearly be handled on the same hardware.
April 6th, 2006 at 11:27 am
Yeah, you’re going to have to buy me one of those, with the big cinema screen so I can fit lots of pictures of ponies on it at once.
April 22nd, 2006 at 6:29 pm
I’ve always worked with Windows as main O/S, delving into Linux once in a while but never used it as my main desktop O/S of choice, mainly server-based stuff Having tried the Mac OS many a time in Apple stores and always seeing developers, particularly Ruby developers using it, it must be upto the job.
Having thought about it a Mac Mini sounds like a tempting and cheap proposition. A PowerBook is on my shopping list once I justify upgrading my current laptop. They just look damn sexy, non?
April 22nd, 2006 at 8:25 pm
Hehe, a PowerBook would be nice. Maybe if I get a new job