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Apple to Charge for Boot Camp?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the now-wait-a-minute dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Looks like I'll stay with Tiger then by Macthorpe · · Score: 1, Troll

    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.

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  2. Re:Apple milking its users? I'm shocked! by nurb432 · · Score: 1, Troll

    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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