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LoOkOuT

Apple announces Boot camp, support for booting Windows on an intel mac: http://www.apple.com/macosx/bootcamp/

Bergamot

Yeah, pretty much

Minisweeper

oh my god. *scrounges round his newly empty account to try and get enough money for a mac mini

c-unit

I'm actually really happy my iBook's motherboard got fried for the third time, now I have an excuse to buy a MacBook Pro, yay!

jeffbax

Testing it out on my iMac now, wish me luck :) Not that its for anything but the occasional Half-Life 2 or Sin Episodes game or IE testing. Not a big fan of Windows anymore since getting my two Macs and will do my best to rest dual booting - Mac software needs support!

LoOkOuT

Good luck jeffbax... let us know how it turns out. Thinking further into the future: Well, if this is just the beginning, and Leopard includes some kind of symultaneous virtualisation (rather than dual boot, like Boot Camp) then what's the future relevancy of terms like 'Operating System' and 'market share' when Apple's machines can run all software (assuming Linux drivers etc also included). Maybe it's just an assumption, but it would certainly be a paradigm shift. Especially with web apps and all. Things are a changing. At any rate, this Boot Camp is a big announcement and I just bought a small amount of Apple shares last week. Happy days. It won't make me rich tho.

Bergamot

Whether I step up to a Macbook in the next few months will be entirely determined by whether they end up using the same crappy integrated video chip as the mac mini, or the awesome^TM one in the iMac/Macbook Pro.

jesusphreak

Yeah I'm hoping they don't skimp on the new iBook (aka MacBook).

nathan

I am getting a MacBook Pro next month, but I don't use Windows. I have never had a use for it. I will probably install it and give it a whirl, but my entire workflow has been optimised for my osx apps. A great step for Apple though. I assume they will gain a fairly solid piece of marke share when it is all tested, working and properly released. A big step in the right direction I think.

Bergamot

Does anyone have any benchmarks as to how a BootCamp-enabled macbook pro does in comparison to other core duo laptops?

c-unit

I've been follow TUAW.com and no mentions of any stats yet. But it was only released about 12 hours ago...

Bergamot

Yeah, but I have a strong feeling they'll be cropping up soon. I'm especially interested in game-related benchmarks...

Kosmo

Now if they would just make it so that I could choose any Graphics card to my Mac it would be all good. It would definedly be bye bye to PC for me and my friends (we have been talking alot about hopping to Mac but the matter of games and gaming in general on Mac has kept them away from Macs).

LoOkOuT

http://www.afterglow.ie/articles_onecomputer.html At first I thought he must read this forum and pinched my title, but no, this is an old article (07/05) that has merely been updated to include Apple's BootCamp announcement. I must have read it before and subconsciously remembered it when posting here. Hmmm, the power of the subconscious mind! Interesting points, like a lot of his articles (see the one on ideas for re-designing the Finder/Desktop).

DigitaLink

I still fear it's one step closer to Apple leaving the OS arena behind and going hardware-only ... with Windows becoming Apple's new OS. Paranoid? Sure, but I'd hate to see the day. Sorry, but I'd prefer to be able to buy OSX for x86 and boot Windows off every machine on earth than see Windows running on a pretty Mac box.

jtyler

I love how the Bootcamp logo is a perfect blend of the OS "X" and Windows logos. Slick Apple.

LoOkOuT

Things are hotting up here. VIrtualisation beta already from a third party company. There were rumours of this a couple of days ago, and then Apple came out with BootCamp. Were they forcing Parallels' hand (and vice versa)? http://www.macrumors.com/ DigitalLink: I don't think we have anything to fear there. Apple want to be a wholistic company providing soft/hard/ware. At least that's what I think, but I'm obviously not privy to any insider info. And have you seen Pirates of Silicon Valley? Even tho Jobs conceded the OS wars long ago, I think he wants Microsoft blood, rightly or wrongly! (That's a joke by the way, but I think it's more or less true).

Bergamot

I still fear it's one step closer to Apple leaving the OS arena behind and going hardware-only ... with Windows becoming Apple's new OS.

Thankfully, that's retarded, as are predictions that we're any closer to legit OS X on commodity hardware.

jeffbax

Yeah, so Half-Life 2 finally hits my Mac ;) Operation Successful! Best part, one installer for ALL drivers, no bloatware, just crisp as XP can be... cept the 40 or so service pack updates I had to get and the like 5 reboots :p

Bergamot

Sweeeeeet.

c-unit

Another report for you to chew on Bergamot