Besides the ability to run Windows XP, the other "thing" that boot camp creates is a whole new ball game for Apple's marketers to pitch Apple boxes (with OS X) in the corporate environment.
Seems to me Apple faced two major obstacles: one was that OS X required new hardware and wouldn't run existing enterprise or other Windows-specific apps used in the corporate environment, and the other was the 20 year-old mindset of corporate IT managers, many of whom to this day still describe the Mac OS platform as if it we were all still living in 1990.
Now Apple can offer machines to business that no other hardware manufacturer on earth can offer: the best of both worlds. For approximately $600 a seat (and possibly less in bulk) employees can use a space saving and quite powerful mini, run the corporation's installation of Windows-based software natively and have OS X waiting and ready to go for environments where it makes perfect sense to use it. For employees that only need web access, word, and excell, they can run OS X natively, have full interoperability with Windows clients, and be free of Windows security concerns. No anti-virus management and maintenance required. For employees who need more and use Windows-specific enterprise apps, the same mini can handle the job.
Blaming the physical medium (Sony's UMD or Blu-ray) is a red herring. The fact is (was), UMD movies for PSP initially sold well but then dropped off dramatically. What does that tell you? UMD is a fault? Bullshit.
The lesson to be learned here is that the market for full-length feature films played on a tiny device with a tiny screen isn't going to be the boon that it's being hyped as, it's a novelty at best. And sometimes the novelty will wear off sooner than you think.
The problem here is with the concept of movie playback on small, portable devices like the PSP (and for that matter the iPod in it's current incarnation). The screen is just to small to keep the viewer engaged over the course of a full-length feature film. Resolution and quality are a non-issue. Even if it was incontestably pristine quality, can you imagine watching a movie like King Kong on a little two inch screen?
This is just another example of placing the value of someone's hardware gadgetry ahead of the value of actual real world user experience. It doesn't matter if you put the movie on a chip or a disk or stream the damn thing from a satellite in HD, the concept of movie playback on a device with a miniature screen isn't sustainable in the long term. It's a solution in search of a problem.
GATES (laughing): Good. Use your Windows emulator, boy! Let the hate flow through you.
Balmer's Son looks momentarily toward Gates, then back to Balmer, and realizes he is using the dark side. He steps back, turns off his iPod, and relaxes, driving the hate from his being.
BALMER: Steve Jobs has taught you well.
BALMER'S SON: I will not fight you, father.
BALMER: You are unwise to lower your earbuds.
Balmer tries to grab the iPod away from his son, but fails. The young Jedi leaps in an amazing reverse flip up to the safety of the catwalk overhead. Vader stands below him.
BALMER'S SON: Your iTunes purchases betray you, father. I feel the Apple in you...the conflict.
BALMER: There is no conflict
BALMER'S SON: You couldn't bring yourself to brainwash me before, and I don't believe you'll MSN me
now.
BALMER: You underestimate the power of the dark side. If you will not use Windows, then you will meet
your destiny.
GATES: Good...good!
My experience was that 10.4 was noticeably faster that 10.3. Not eye-bulging, jaw-dropping speed increases, but things seemed - I hate to use this word - snappier.
Here a few things I remember noticing right after upgrading: Boot time was much faster. OS Windows opened faster and resized more responsively. Get info panels appeared instantly and revealed their contents instantly. The GUI updated itself instantly as well, i.e., in Panther, if you right-clicked an icon on the desktop and selected "move to trash," there was a slight lag before the icon would disappear from the desktop (you could hear the trash can sound and see the trash can icon bulge - just before the icon disappeared from the desktop). In Tiger, everything is in sync now, the icon removal, trash can sound, and trash can icon bulge all happen at once.
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Besides the ability to run Windows XP, the other "thing" that boot camp creates is a whole new ball game for Apple's marketers to pitch Apple boxes (with OS X) in the corporate environment.
Seems to me Apple faced two major obstacles: one was that OS X required new hardware and wouldn't run existing enterprise or other Windows-specific apps used in the corporate environment, and the other was the 20 year-old mindset of corporate IT managers, many of whom to this day still describe the Mac OS platform as if it we were all still living in 1990.
Now Apple can offer machines to business that no other hardware manufacturer on earth can offer: the best of both worlds. For approximately $600 a seat (and possibly less in bulk) employees can use a space saving and quite powerful mini, run the corporation's installation of Windows-based software natively and have OS X waiting and ready to go for environments where it makes perfect sense to use it. For employees that only need web access, word, and excell, they can run OS X natively, have full interoperability with Windows clients, and be free of Windows security concerns. No anti-virus management and maintenance required. For employees who need more and use Windows-specific enterprise apps, the same mini can handle the job.
And that's just scratching the surface.
Blaming the physical medium (Sony's UMD or Blu-ray) is a red herring. The fact is (was), UMD movies for PSP initially sold well but then dropped off dramatically. What does that tell you? UMD is a fault? Bullshit.
The lesson to be learned here is that the market for full-length feature films played on a tiny device with a tiny screen isn't going to be the boon that it's being hyped as, it's a novelty at best. And sometimes the novelty will wear off sooner than you think.
The problem here is with the concept of movie playback on small, portable devices like the PSP (and for that matter the iPod in it's current incarnation). The screen is just to small to keep the viewer engaged over the course of a full-length feature film. Resolution and quality are a non-issue. Even if it was incontestably pristine quality, can you imagine watching a movie like King Kong on a little two inch screen?
This is just another example of placing the value of someone's hardware gadgetry ahead of the value of actual real world user experience. It doesn't matter if you put the movie on a chip or a disk or stream the damn thing from a satellite in HD, the concept of movie playback on a device with a miniature screen isn't sustainable in the long term. It's a solution in search of a problem.
GATES (laughing): Good. Use your Windows emulator, boy! Let the hate flow through you. Balmer's Son looks momentarily toward Gates, then back to Balmer, and realizes he is using the dark side. He steps back, turns off his iPod, and relaxes, driving the hate from his being. BALMER: Steve Jobs has taught you well. BALMER'S SON: I will not fight you, father. BALMER: You are unwise to lower your earbuds. Balmer tries to grab the iPod away from his son, but fails. The young Jedi leaps in an amazing reverse flip up to the safety of the catwalk overhead. Vader stands below him. BALMER'S SON: Your iTunes purchases betray you, father. I feel the Apple in you...the conflict. BALMER: There is no conflict BALMER'S SON: You couldn't bring yourself to brainwash me before, and I don't believe you'll MSN me now. BALMER: You underestimate the power of the dark side. If you will not use Windows, then you will meet your destiny. GATES: Good...good!
My experience was that 10.4 was noticeably faster that 10.3. Not eye-bulging, jaw-dropping speed increases, but things seemed - I hate to use this word - snappier.
Here a few things I remember noticing right after upgrading: Boot time was much faster. OS Windows opened faster and resized more responsively. Get info panels appeared instantly and revealed their contents instantly. The GUI updated itself instantly as well, i.e., in Panther, if you right-clicked an icon on the desktop and selected "move to trash," there was a slight lag before the icon would disappear from the desktop (you could hear the trash can sound and see the trash can icon bulge - just before the icon disappeared from the desktop). In Tiger, everything is in sync now, the icon removal, trash can sound, and trash can icon bulge all happen at once.
This is on a 1ghz eMac with 1 gig ram.
Thanks for the nick! lol