Boot Camp For Suckers?

DigitalDame2 writes "PC Magazine's Editor-in-Chief says the whole Mac/Windows dual-boot thing is really nothing to get excited about. He writes that Boot Camp is really just a plan to get Windows users to convert to OS X." From the article: "Once you've laid out a few kilobucks on your BC system and been frustrated a few times with Windows limitations, what are you going to do? Jobs's bet: You'll start spending more and more time in OS X, until you--too--become one of the pod people. It's sad to see so many of my compatriots being turned into lemmings. Perhaps they'll wake up and smell the Apple pie in the sky--and realize they've been taken for a ride. But I doubt it."

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Nice spin

[eln]

It's refreshing to finally see such a non-biased article about Apple.

Honestly, of course Apple did it to get more Windows users to try MacOS. Why else would they do it? They want to grab more market share, that's what the whole Intel shift is all about. To make them out to be evil because they want to improve their own market share at the expense of the competition is silly.

Re:Message for Captain Obvious

[Total_Wimp]

Boot Camp is really just a plan to get Windows users to convert to OS X.
Well...duh! Did anyone think Apple was doing it as a public service?

Why do so many Mac users insist on this fantasy that Windows users really hate Windows and would switch to the Mac OS in a flash if only they had a chance to touch it's brushed chrome goodness? The fact is, your dislike of Windows has little bearing on wether others like it. Heck, you can even hate Windows with passion usually reserved for suicide bombers and it still would have very little influance on whether the general population would like it.

Need, coersion and ignorance are not the only reasons people use Windows. Most Windows users actually like their OS and would not want to switch. This could, in fact, be a good chunk of the reason why the vast majority of Windows users, even the ones who've seen that really cool "Dock," have not switched.

In a year or two, we'll know who's right. You'll either see a significant upturn in switchers, a bunch of people running Windows on Apple's extremely well made notebooks, or, just as likely, not much of a change at all. I can't help but think how absurd the first scenerio is. The Second is possible and, coincidentally could make Jobs Dell rich instead of merely Apple rich. Jobs doesn't need the money, but, did you notice, he does let Windows users use the iPod. And this has made him very happy.

TW

A great plan

[houghi]

People will buy a Mac and instead of just working with OS X directly, they now have the ability to try out Windows, won't like it and then work with OS X.

Re:Message for Captain Obvious

[coleblak]

If Windows ran on proprietary hardware, you'd be singing praises over it like a Mac fan sings over Tiger or whatever their OS is called. Shut up. The problem isn't horrendous code(though that is somewhat a problem, I admit), the problem is millions(probably, I don't code) of lines of code to run on different processors, different video cards, diff mobos, etc., etc., etc. WIndows works. Not well but it works on millions of different kinds of configurations. Apple works on a handful of configurations.