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Apple to Charge for Boot Camp?
An anonymous reader writes "According to a report MacScoop has obtained, Apple will charge current users of Mac OS X Tiger for the final version of Boot Camp that will be released at the same time as Mac OS X Leopard, this Spring."
Did anyone really believe that Apple would make it remotely easy for people to dual boot Windows and Mac OS?
It may well be to assign a perceived discount on Leopard. If Boot Camp is $29, and Leopard w/Boot Camp is $129 dollars, then Leopard is actually only a $100 dollars!
Except that's not true at all, they're just selling something to people that:
a) They already have for nothing, or
b) Is free with an upgraded version of their software.
They've assigned an arbitrary price to a piece of free software in order to make paying to upgrade every 18 months a less bitter pill to swallow.
"It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him." - Tolkien
Heh, this bear trap actually sounds like something Microsoft would pull off.
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Frankly, I'm pleased to hear it. Apple seems at last to be realizing the recent flood of beige onto the Mac platform has been detrimental to the community. Many Mac apps are losing their polish and careful interaction aesthetics as PC users, as customers and complainers, begin to have a role in their design. Seriously, Firefox? Who but a PC user would prefer Firefox to Safari?
Making it harder for people like that to switch to the Mac is the first step in undoing the damage.
And now, a PSA from David Lynch.
If you think you need to run Windows so badly, just buy a PC and GTFO the Mac. You linear-thinking rectangular types are ruining the platform for the rest of us.
And now, a PSA from David Lynch.
Is SOX the new bullshit Mac user answer to everything? Go zap your PRAM and restore your permissions!
so, how does it feel being blown by Jobs
imho, Apple Corporation sucks
No of cousre they should get reimbursed, but they should bundle ALL the features into the inital cost of the OS, not tons of 'extra charges' that piss off their users.
If they want to charge the extra few bucks upfont that is one thing, but i agree all this garbage with 'fringe costs' is really annoying.
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I can't think of any "hardcore Mac users" who don't regard Firefox as an abomination, an attempt to force Windows and Linux user interface paradigms, untranslated, onto a platform formerly uncorrupted by such Frankenstenian horrors.
Jon Hicks (the guy who designed the Firefox icon) dumped Firefox as his main browser. He moved on to Safari when it came out. What does that tell you?
And now, a PSA from David Lynch.
Fee to pay for bootcamp: $29.
Fee to make Vista run better: Priceless.
For everything else, use OS X.
Oh wait. I'm a Win/Lin guy who avoids Macs like the plague.
Bah. BFD.
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THANK GOD!!!
Think of the big picture. Whether this is a feature from an upcoming OS release or not, the end result is you have to pay just to install another OS on your computer... your computer that has essentially the same hardware as a generic PC. You're paying for a boot loader and a set of Windows drivers - the kind of stuff you could get for free if your hardware didn't have pictures of apples on it.
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Well, apple fanbois are addicted to Steve Job's dick. Its their Dharma to defense Apple no matter what. If Apple announces tomorrow that all the existing customer of any Apple product will have to gag on Job's semen, I am sure there will be stampede to get ahead in the queue.
Now lets get modded down to the fanboi hell!