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."

Comments

Re:So what you're telling me is...

[Ohreally_factor]

I started to reply "I want to have a threesome with your mom and dad", but I caught the typo before I hit submit.

Re:Apple's Confidence

[morgan_greywolf]

It's a definite statement of confidence by Apple that they will *support* the means to run a competing OS on their system.

No. Boot Camp is currently unsupported. Apple also refuses to provide support for running Windows on the machine.

While there may be drivers lacking initially, I have full confidence that the open source community will fill this void.

I sincerely doubt that many from the "open source community" are going to step up to write drivers for closed hardware running on a closed-source OS. Now Linux or *BSD drivers for the Apple hardware are more likely to happen. But writing drivers for closed hardware is difficult enough without having to write them for an operating system that doesn't provide you with source code.