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Boot Camp offers few incentives for Macintosh users to use Windows
Mat Boyle
Issue date: 4/14/06 Section: Sci-Tech
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Your Mac-intosh is now a certified honest-to-god Windows PC. The Mac Anti-Christ, Windows, can be used on any Mac running an Intel chip with Apple's new Bootcamp software. I asked myself who would do such an awful thing to the Mac? It must be Microsoft trying to sell more copies of Windows XP before they release there new operating system, Vista, in the fall. Sadly, Bill Gates is not behind this. Steve Jobs and his apple cronies came up with this software themselves.
Running Windows is possible on the Mac is by the new program Boot Camp. Unlike Microsoft's Virtual PC that runs as a program inside of OS X, Boot Camp runs before either operating system is loaded. When the computer is turned on the user will have the option of running Windows or OS X. Essentially, the new Intel-based Macs can support Windows on it's own, Boot Camp simply takes care of most of the leg work involved in the process allowing easy access for the general consumer. There is no direct swapping between operating systems. The only way to switch between the two is to restart the computer. The two operating systems are keep apart from one another. Each sits on there own hard drive or partition. So in the likely chance that windows gets a virus all your Mac files will be safe while your windows files get ravished.
To me there is little need for this program, if you bought a Mac, why would you go back to Windows? OS X is the faster and the safer choice between the two operating systems. I could see a use for this in the past when Macs were not very windows compatible. Since OS X came out Macs are very compatible with windows. As I write this I'm swapping photos with my friend on a Windows PC, compatibility not being an issue. In my opinion, a Mac can do everything faster than a Windows equivalent PC could do.
Now I may be a strong Mac supporter, but even I can find a use for this program. I will no longer have to wait for Mac ports of all of my favorite PC games. Since Boot Camp is not an emulator no speed is lost and will be able to play at full speed. Boot Camp got rid off the one downside of owning a Mac. If a company were to release a game on OS X and Windows at the same time, I would get the Mac version.
Running Windows is possible on the Mac is by the new program Boot Camp. Unlike Microsoft's Virtual PC that runs as a program inside of OS X, Boot Camp runs before either operating system is loaded. When the computer is turned on the user will have the option of running Windows or OS X. Essentially, the new Intel-based Macs can support Windows on it's own, Boot Camp simply takes care of most of the leg work involved in the process allowing easy access for the general consumer. There is no direct swapping between operating systems. The only way to switch between the two is to restart the computer. The two operating systems are keep apart from one another. Each sits on there own hard drive or partition. So in the likely chance that windows gets a virus all your Mac files will be safe while your windows files get ravished.
To me there is little need for this program, if you bought a Mac, why would you go back to Windows? OS X is the faster and the safer choice between the two operating systems. I could see a use for this in the past when Macs were not very windows compatible. Since OS X came out Macs are very compatible with windows. As I write this I'm swapping photos with my friend on a Windows PC, compatibility not being an issue. In my opinion, a Mac can do everything faster than a Windows equivalent PC could do.
Now I may be a strong Mac supporter, but even I can find a use for this program. I will no longer have to wait for Mac ports of all of my favorite PC games. Since Boot Camp is not an emulator no speed is lost and will be able to play at full speed. Boot Camp got rid off the one downside of owning a Mac. If a company were to release a game on OS X and Windows at the same time, I would get the Mac version.
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Anonymous
posted 4/16/06 @ 12:01 PM EST
Here's a perfect use for Boot Camp: to replace a standalone Windows PC. For example, this here PC I'm using needs an upgrade or replacement. 90% or more of what I do with it can easily (more easily, in fact) be done on a Mac in OS X. (Continued…)
Anonymous
posted 4/16/06 @ 7:08 PM EST
I am finding that browing in IE is faster on the Windows partition of my MacBook Pro than it is on the Mac side. I also now have access to some of the Active X web sites that I have never had access to before. (Continued…)
Anonymous
posted 4/17/06 @ 9:45 AM EST
"Mac-intosh"
"I asked myself who would do such an awful thing to the Mac?"
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Running Windows is possible on the Mac is by the new program Boot Camp. (Continued…)
Anonymous
posted 4/17/06 @ 10:55 PM EST
"if you bought a Mac, why would you go back to Windows?"
It's not a question of going "back" to Windows -- sometimes it's a question of running software that just isn't available for the Mac. (Continued…)
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