Going To Boot Camp

An anonymous reader writes "PC World has first impressions of what it's like to run Windows with Boot Camp, the recently announced official dual-boot software for the Intel Macs." From the article: "Back in Windows, I got right down to business and installed a few games to put the graphics and sound support to the test. The quick and dirty verdict on performance? Most impressive. Doom 3 and Far Cry both ran smoothly with high-end graphics options turned on. In both cases, I had to tweak visual settings manually, since the games automatically set themselves to very low settings. Far Cry, for example, autodetected very low settings, but it ran without a hitch when I bumped the resolution up to 1280 by 720, with all visual quality options set to 'High.'"

Comments

comments from a non-gamer... awesome

[macadamia_harold]

In both cases, I had to tweak visual settings manually, since the games automatically set themselves to very low settings. Far Cry, for example, autodetected very low settings, but it ran without a hitch when I bumped the resolution up to 1280 by 720

Has this idiot never played FarCry before? Of course it starts out at a default, low resolution. And of course you can set it higher, if you want.

I mean, if the game had started out at 1600x1200, he'd be making the inverse of this same "complaint". What a moron.

Re:More info on Boot Camp

[fm6]

KW!

Microsoft Tax?

[rubberbando]

Does that mean that now that it's possible to run Windows on a Mac that Microsoft will expect everyone who buys a Mac to pay their tax reguardless of whether the buyer actually plans on using Windows on it?

Re:More info on Boot Camp

[Palshife]

O RLY?!

Final Nail in the Coffin for Desktop Linux

[netglen]

I just see the Boot Camp as the final nail for the idea of a consumer level linux desktop system.