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# Wednesday, April 05, 2006

At long last, and what a great name

Leave it up to Apple finally acknowledge that they are in fact a hardware company. And what a great name for a product… Boot Camp will finally raise the bar for the PC OEMs. You are now on notice and either need to figure out how to make your commodity business work or risk losing all the folks like me who care what our PCees look and sound like. Any company that spends time designing a good power supply for a laptop in a market where no one else even thinks about that has a special place in my heart.

Imagine if we named this thing! It would be called: “Microsoft Windows XP Professional Boot Selector Beta for Windows and Macintosh Systems”. But Boot Camp says what it does in 2 words :-).

Kudos to Apple, especially Steve Jobs. Off to store.apple.com to find out what new shiny object I need for a computer. Maybe I’ll start with a mini.

What’s next? WMA support on the iPod? (don’t I wish)

 

Wednesday, April 05, 2006 6:38:30 PM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)
I started with the Mini for all my photos & video and I am so glad I did. All of my media is now on my Mac.

I also love dropping out to their terminal where the UNIX geek in me can live.

Good luck with your shopping.

Wednesday, April 05, 2006 8:32:32 PM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)
I managed to get MCE up and running on my Macbook today. Wow. The video card smokes on XP - fastest laptop video I've seen.
Wednesday, April 05, 2006 10:40:30 PM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)
Hmmm... My new Vista laptop perhaps? :)
Wednesday, April 05, 2006 10:49:38 PM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)
It would be something to first see the big apple logo on a laptop and then see that it's actually running Vista.

A good question was raised though. How many people using Apple hardware are really looking for a Microsoft operating system to be on it?
Samuel
Wednesday, April 05, 2006 11:13:12 PM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)
Or rather how many people prefer an MS OS or need to run an MS OS and are willing to pay a 'slight' premium to get sexier and/or 'better' hardware.
Thursday, April 06, 2006 1:45:50 AM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)
Do the mac laptops even have a second mouse button on their trackpads?
Thursday, April 06, 2006 9:39:36 AM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)
And whats a boot camp?
Is that where your apple mac goes to join the army?

Honestly, i had to go to the website (even after reading this post) to figure out that what it was.

At least "Microsoft Windows XP Professional Boot Selector Beta for Windows and Macintosh Systems" says what it does...
Thursday, April 06, 2006 6:03:59 PM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)
My friend considers this a genius move on Job's part. He sees a group of people who really are going to want Apple hardware but still want to have XP. So these people will load up XP onto their new power books or whatever the Apple laptops are and they are bound to give OS X a ride and they might even switch.

I personally think if you're savy enough to put XP onto a MAC, then you've probably already seen and used OS X and havn't switched for a reason.
Samuel
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