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Bunk Camp - Apple Gets It Wrong?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the see-it's-a-clever-twist-of-one-letter dept.

An anonymous reader writes "CNET.com.au has posted a commentary that attempts to cut away the hype surrounding Boot Camp. From the article: 'Boot Camp will do little to coax Windows XP users into switching to Mac OS X. For this to happen, Apple needs to either license out OS X to all users -- not just Mac owners -- or support a true Mac virtualisation application.'"

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  1. Re:FP? by davidesh · · Score: 0, Troll

    considering the cost of a new mac $ + windows xp license $ + mac software $ + windows software $ + the hassle of dual-booting + learning a new system... who wants to deal with all that? The average user? uhh no!

    Besides what is oh so great about boot camp anyways? so what, it is a fancy interface to a boot-loader, and they supply drivers for windows... yay hooray? I've been dual-booting on my PC hmmm... FOREVER. OSX moves to intel hardware and suddenly now wants to make dual-booting possible? DUH! Why wouldn't that have happened? Even if apple didn't do it, i'm sure a 3rd party vendor would have come along and made it really simple.

    iMac (lowest model) = $1,299.00 + Windows XP Home (not OEM or upgrade, if you want to do it legally... retail license) $199 = $1,498.00
    17-inch widescreen LCD with 1440x900 resolution
    1.83GHz Intel Core Duo with 2MB shared L2 cache
    512MB (single SO-DIMM) 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM
    160GB Serial ATA hard drive
    Slot-load 8x double-layer SuperDrive
    ATI Radeon X1600 graphics with 128MB GDDR3 memory
    Built-in AirPort Extreme and Bluetooth 2.0

    Dell XPS 400 - $1259 + MacOSX $129 = $1,388
    20 inch UltraSharp(TM) 2007FPW Widescreen Digital Flat Panel
    2.80GHz Pentium® D Processor 820 with Dual Core Technology
    1GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHz- 2DIMMs
    160GB Serial ATA Hard Drive (7200RPM) w/DataBurst Cache(TM)
    Dual Drives: 16x DVD-ROM Drive + 16x DVD+/-RW w/dbl layer write capability
    256MB nVidia Geforce 7300LE TurboCache

    So $1,498 for the Mac with windows or $1,388 for the Dell with OSX and superior hardware...

    (besides... I still have yet for anyone to show me what I can do on a Mac that I cannot do on my PC. I run winxp pro and different flavors of linux in VMware & dual-boot.)

    so please... remind me what the author doesn't get?