Comments on: Boot Camp http://joseph.randomnetworks.com/archives/2006/04/05/boot-camp/ cat /dev/random Sat, 04 Jul 2009 08:07:38 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9-rare hourly 1 By: Jim http://joseph.randomnetworks.com/archives/2006/04/05/boot-camp/comment-page-1/#comment-7486 Jim Fri, 07 Apr 2006 03:13:38 +0000 http://joseph.randomnetworks.com/archives/2006/04/05/boot-camp/#comment-7486 Yep, I think this will definitely help Apple sell more hardware, and coincidentally get more people exposed to Mac OSX. I started mentioning this to my wife tonight, and she was totally jazzed about the idea. She had heard something about it on the radio earlier today (on NPR I think). She was very hip to replacing her current (Windows) system with an Intel Mac. She's not very partisan about the O/S--her only concern is being able to run some specific apps for her quilting business. I'm pretty sure that once she got familiar with OSX, she would prefer to do as much as possible with it, and that would actually be quite a bit: email, web browsing, and Office covers over 90% of her usage. She'd still need Windows for her embroidery software and Electric Quilter, but it's a tiny minority of her usage. Yep, I think this will definitely help Apple sell more hardware, and coincidentally get more people exposed to Mac OSX. I started mentioning this to my wife tonight, and she was totally jazzed about the idea. She had heard something about it on the radio earlier today (on NPR I think).

She was very hip to replacing her current (Windows) system with an Intel Mac. She’s not very partisan about the O/S–her only concern is being able to run some specific apps for her quilting business. I’m pretty sure that once she got familiar with OSX, she would prefer to do as much as possible with it, and that would actually be quite a bit: email, web browsing, and Office covers over 90% of her usage. She’d still need Windows for her embroidery software and Electric Quilter, but it’s a tiny minority of her usage.

]]> By: David http://joseph.randomnetworks.com/archives/2006/04/05/boot-camp/comment-page-1/#comment-7421 David Wed, 05 Apr 2006 22:33:02 +0000 http://joseph.randomnetworks.com/archives/2006/04/05/boot-camp/#comment-7421 I've seen this story and for what it is possible to see from the first installations of Windows on Macs out there, it isn't possible yet to use Base Camp to boot anything else than Windows Home/Professional SP2. But I supose that Linux or FreBSD or OpenSolaris will eventually be bootable via Boot Camp. Let's Hope. I’ve seen this story and for what it is possible to see from the first installations of Windows on Macs out there, it isn’t possible yet to use Base Camp to boot anything else than Windows Home/Professional SP2.

But I supose that Linux or FreBSD or OpenSolaris will eventually be bootable via Boot Camp. Let’s Hope.

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