BootCamp
I don’t understand why there’s all this discussion around BootCamp.
I thought I’d take a few seconds to summarise John Gruber’s post on the matter . BootCamp is about reducing the risk of purchasing a mac. PC lovers who are already mac-curious can now buy a shiny new imac as their next computer. If it turns out they don’t like this whole OS X thing, they can just use it as a really pretty windows computer.
It’s about Letting You Go Back not about yellow box, opening up mac os to dell or buying microsoft.
Posted on April 13th, 2006 | 2 comments | Commenting Closed
Jeff April 13th, 2006 @ 01:38 PM
No kidding. The reaction is strange and it shows just how poorly served we are by most trade press and industry analysts. Especially in this case when you consider that Apple endorses and promotes VirtualPC (from Microsoft) and has done so for some time.
Aaron Blohowiak April 15th, 2006 @ 03:38 PM
1) Games—the final reason most pc people hold over apple’s head.
2) people should be more excited by Parallels, which enables near full-speed virtualization (ie: it whoops VirtualPC) and only costs 40 bucks.