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Boot Camp For Suckers?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the bet-it-works-too dept.

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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  1. Message for Captain Obvious by MoxCamel · · Score: 5, Insightful
    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?

    Next up: Publishers put nice pictures on their book covers so you will buy them. Bastards!!

    Mox

    1. Re:Message for Captain Obvious by Em+Adespoton · · Score: 5, Insightful
      One word: GAMES

      --This has nothing to do with the office environment, and everything to do with shoring up the gaming system on Macs. One OS for games, and one OS for everything else... you don't generally need to have both running at the same time.

    2. Re:Message for Captain Obvious by KillerDeathRobot · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Most Windows users actually like their OS and would not want to switch.

      Congratulations! You've just won the Made Up Fact of the Hour Award!

      There's no way whatsoever to prove that. You completely just made it up, probably from your own experience. Which is exactly what you're decrying (though the post you quoted doesn't really seem to have anything to do with that).

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      Thinkin' Lincoln - a web comic of presidential proportions
  2. How did this guy even get a job? by scrondle · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I knew there was a reason I haven't looked at PC Magazine since 1998. That's not an article, it's a rant. How about some technical details/reasons why he doesn't like boot camp? What a tool.

  3. The More Effete Among Us by American+AC+in+Paris · · Score: 5, Insightful
    From TFA:

    The more effete among us have embraced BC because now they can run all their favorite Windows apps on a saucy, sexy Mac.

    Wow. Nothing says "class" like a thinly-veiled "Macs are for fags" joke.

    You'd exect this sort of thing from a random blogger or Slashdotter, not the freakin' editor-in-chief of PC Magazine.

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    Obliteracy: Words with explosions

  4. Praising with Faint D@mns ... by rewinn · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Once you've .... been frustrated a few times with Windows limitations, what are you going to do? .... start spending more and more time in OS X

    I don't know whether the article is confused or trying to be clever, but I don't think Apple minds 'criticism' such as that.

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    --- Attorneys Assisting Citizen-Soldiers & Families -
  5. Re:Jealousy is a terrible thing. In the meantime.. by Lewisham · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "Seriously, why does this guy care so much?"

    Apparently he's noticed that John C. Dvorak's trolling puts the hit count through the roof. Only makes sense to start using the rest of the magazine's brand to start trolling as well.

    He's obviously got some sort of logic malfunction, his arguments are both bizarre and full of emotive language. It's professional trolling.

  6. Warning: Humour Alert by ickoonite · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Guys, guys, guys! Calm down, calm down!

    I think he's trying to be funny.

    I am English. I know sarcasm. It's what we do. And I think that's what he's trying to do here. It's not very well done, but there are little hints. It's why he links to himself and calls himself "some idiot". It's why he specifically mentions the M-Audio and Kona kit (the latter is Mac only). Of course it works with the Mac.

    So all those who are praising him for his insight, for debunking the Mac myth - stop now. Same goes for the Mac fanbois who are trying to find fault with his article.

    It's subtle, I'll allow that, but remember: always consult the nearest Brit before responding to something that sounds a little bit too stupid to be true. It probably is.

    iqu :P

  7. Logical Analysis by Kelson · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The logic of the piece appears to be thus:

    1. I don't like Macs, Apple, or Steve Jobs.
    2. I don't like anything that can't be tinkered with.
    3. Boot Camp is an Apple Product.
    4. By #1 and #2, anyone who likes any of the above is an idiot and/or brainwashed.
    5. By #3 and #4, Boot Camp is for idiots.

    While #5 may proceed logically from #3 and #4, #4 does not proceed from #1 or #2.

    I'd say the author has a wonderful future ahead of him in either Slashdot trolling, talk radio, or writing about politics. Editing a computer magazine? Not so sure about that one.