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Apple Officially Releases Beta Dual Boot Loader
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."
the majority of mac buyers are booting into windows xp/vista because the majority of people use it, apple will have killed a wonderful OS and regulated their systems to nothing more than exotic pc hardware, and we all know how well high end windows notebooks sell. not well. apple has something unique, osx, why encourage people in any way to defoul their mac like that?
"It's pretty incredible that Apple has decided to do this, to say the least."
Incredible???
OS X is going bye-bye. There is nothing 'incredible' about this next step in the process.
You are living in a fantasy world if you think Apple is going to continue to support the development of an entire OS and software suite to go with it while every other x86 OEM is out there desperately trying to shave pennies off their overhead per system.
Apple is and has been for some time preparing to migrate to Windows. Apple users had better get over that trauma sooner than later. Jobs has a heart of ice and Apple computer hardware and OS/software is a major distraction from the high growth digital media side of the company.
Yeah, THAT's the problem. You know, the Kooky OSS Klub is such an awesome psychological case study that it's almost too perfect. People really do see only what they wish to see.
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Inventor of the term 'pardon my French'.
Anyone remember the "PowerPC" Macs, with the ability to dual boot into MS-DOS or MacOS? They used to sell "PC Compatibility cards" that went in some of the PowerMacs, which were basically en entire PC on a card slot, complete with memory SIMMS, VGA video (output along-side the on-board Mac video output via a splitter cable), and even a PC joystick port.
To me, this whole thing is reminiscent of those days.
You know, the Kooky OSS Klub is such an awesome psychological case study that it's almost too perfect. People really do see only what they wish to see.
As opposed to the Fruity Mac Fanboi Klub? Hello Pot? This is kettle calling.
The Grub bootloader is meant to work on things like serial terminals if necessary. Fancy graphics that make Fruity Mac Fanbois drool on themselves would tend to complicate things. They aren't absolutely precluded but it would make a fairly small piece of code into a really grotty large piece of code. Since Apple's bootloader only has to support Apple's hardware, they can make it as fancy as they want and still keep the number of use cases to a minimum.
Before hurling insults at OSS users and developers, how about you grow half a clue? Incidentally, judging from the amount of OSS code in OS X it would seem that Apple has more of a clue about this than you do.