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Apple Officially Releases Beta Dual Boot Loader

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the at-least-it-wasn't-an-april-fools-joke dept.

Slippy Douglas writes "Apparently, Apple has made good on one of the 30th anniversary product rumours. Apple today announced the Boot Camp Public Beta, which allows Intel Macs to easily and legally multi-boot. Boot Camp will be a standard feature in Mac OS X 10.5."

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  1. Well, You know the saying... by Phantombrain · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    If you can't beat them, join them!

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  2. Re:Wow, this is incredible by InsaneProcessor · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Actually, it will be going by-by. Apple is evolving into a hardware/media company and to continue with OS and support for such is contrary to the direction. Jobs has got is act together. If you don't believe this, watch in the comming months at the slowdown of software being released on the new platforms. 18-20 months, tops, and OS-X is announce EOL.

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  3. Re:Legally Multiboot? by itchy92 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Or it prompts you to insert the installation media for a previous OS.

    Get your facts straight before posting...

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  4. Re:Few Quick Notes by drsmithy · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    I also use them side by side, everyday and demand -real world- performance out of both and I can reassure you that you mustn't be doing much more than dragging and dropping files around on your desktop to not realise the difference.

    Funny, that's the same thing I'd say to anyone trying to suggest Finder was better.

    Finder works well enough if you're just throwing a few things around on the Desktop or your home directory. Get into complex directory structures and network resources (ESPECIALLY network resources), however, and it falls apart.

    My particular favourite is when explorer takes 30 seconds to re-read a network directory that I use in excess of 100 times a day. (each time rereading the h&w of the images in the folder, despite having turned this off about 10 times already).

    Even assuming your experience was normal - which it isn't - this pales into insignificant compared to the way Finder just randomly locks up completely accessing network shares. Heaven help you if some network share temporarily disappears, because you'll almost certainly have to kill it - possibly even log out and back in again or reboot - just so you can start using Finder again.

    It gets incredibly frustrating. Naturally when it crashes it loses all of the few settings that actually stick when you choose them.(How many times have I selected no preview, just for it to forget this setting.)

    Your PC is broken. You should get it fixed. I can't even remember the last time Explorer crashed.

    This is just the tip of the ice burg. I won't even start on recycle bin or what happens when the explorer window is scrolled down to a section of files and you dare want to add or remove one.

    Sounds like more examples of how you don't know what you're doing.