Apple’s Boot Camp
Today Apple announces a public beta of this Boot Camp bootloader that allows Windows XP to dual boot on a Intel based Mac. Besides the bootloader, it also comes with Windows drivers for the Mac hardware. Boot Camp will be part of OSX 10.5 when it comes out. The release of Boot Camp pretty much makes the effort of the 3rd parties to run XP on Intel Macs moot. This is a good thing because you get a nice bootloader to choose which OS you want to use and you get official Windows drivers from Apple. This makes buying a Mac more attractive for Windows users. If and when I can afford a new laptop, I would seriously consider a Mac.
As I look through the forums on many tech sites a lot of people seem to love the comment Apple makes on the Boot Camp page:
Windows running on a Mac is like Windows running on a PC. That means it’ll be subject to the same attacks that plague the Windows world. So be sure to keep it updated with the latest Microsoft Windows security fixes.
This is just silly and give me a friggin’ break. Of course Windows on a “Mac” is just like Windows on a PC, because there isn’t a whole lot of different between “Mac” hardware and PC hardware. Stop making it as if Macs are totally different than PCs, especially after Apple switched to the Intel platform. Running Windows on *any* platform will give you the same exact troubles and annoyances. I can run Linux on PC hardware or like some hackers do, slap x86 OSX on PC hardware and I would be just as “safe” as using a Mac. (I never have problems with worms and viruses in Windows, so I don’t know what’s the big deal. Not needing to waste resources on anti-virus/anti-spyware/firewall programs is a plus though.)
Another silly comment I read is “Muwahaha! Dell must be pretty upset now!” Come on now, upset about what? Dell doesn’t give a damn until Apple drops the price of their hardwares to Dell’s range, and/or large enterprises start buying Macs in bulk. To think that being able to dual boot XP on a Mac is going to greatly effect Dell is simply being ignorant and silly.
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