I’m a frequent PC user and I’m so sick of how slow and annoying a Personal Computer can be. Apple computer seam to give a little colour and enjoyment while working so many hours in front of a screen.

My work in mainly graphic. I have a small clothing buisness and so I wor a lot with software such as ilustrator or photoshop. But my work is industrial design and on that 3D CAD software field the windows platform wins the game. When I heard about boot camp I was really glad that now I could finally have a computer that would help my sanity and would not crash whenever I’m on a hurry. Boot camp seam perfect. I can run my 3D CAD Software such as Solidworks or AutoCad on my Windows side. And do all my graphic and rendering work on the confortable MacOs. Is this me drifting away on a idealistic and perfect enviroment for my work? Or is it just another try to seduce windows users to a more friendly and fashion way of dealing with computers?

Manel

He told me bootcamp was not supported, and could in fact damage the MAC side of the system. Then asked why I would buy a system from a vendor that didn’t support the software.

He talked me out of the purchase. I guess that I will stick to Windows where almost everything runs, and not use the enhanced graphics editing capabilities of the MAC. If Apple stock went up 10% because of this announcement, investors are very gullible.
CharlieA

Aren’t they? I’m the IT admin for a corporate network and i can’t WAIT to get one of the new 17″ apple laptops. Finally, Windows and OS X on the same machine!!! A very, very, very intelligent move for apple. HEAPS of people love OS X but unfortunately, NEED winpoos… so all those people such as myself, who love OS X but need XP, can have it, and you gotta buy a mac to get it. Very smart move. And wait till the average user gets a clue about how to use OS X. Another plus is faster hardware too =D

My installtion was fairly simple but the Apple drivers for the wireless card didn’t let me join a LEAP authentication required network. So I went Hunting. The Windows system identified the hardware as an Atheros AR5006x card. Turns out to support a, b, and g networks! Don’t know if the Apple implimentation limits joining an A network or not. But I hunted for an updated driver (the included one was 4.1 something.) Sure enough there is a 4.2something. But getting it from Atheros was impossible. Gigabyte Inc. turned out to have a nice update but the Amercan download failed. I had to go to Asia to get it downloaded (the Europe one started but ultimately failed.) But to find that I had to work through an eBay web page that actually had an old link but it kind of got me there…. quite the hunt.

But it worked great when done and rebooting and using the network seemed stable enough!

Here’s where the driver was ultimately listed:
http://tw2005.giga-byte.com/Communication/Support/Driver/Driver_Wireless_GN-WI01HT.htm

I picked the 1.01 version which is the 4.2something version (versions of versions!?) and I used the Asia (not Asia(China)) and it installed and ran well. Yes I even had a virus checker check it!

So what else can be updated??

I’ve given this a lot of thought and I think it’s going to benefit MS more than Apple.

1. Very few PC owners are about to trash $1000 in hardware to switch to Mac.

2. If they do, they will still have to install a new version of Windows and will have to pay $100 for it.

3. Many Mac users will be more than willing to spend $100-200 for Windows so that they can play PC games – long a sore point for Mac owners.

4. Corporate IT admins are not going to buy [expensive] Macs and pay for *2* operating systems so that they can migrate to Mac. The bean counters would laugh so hard that they would pee their pants.

In short, I see only some cross-pollination sales which mostly benefit MS. Granted, Apple will make some sales of Leopard that they might otherwise get – to existing owners of Tiger who would like to try Windows XP.

I don’t see where there’s so much benefit to Apple that their stock should shoot up like it has. Do these analysts really believe that hundreds of millions of dollars in PC hardware is going to suddenly end up in landfills with the owners scrambling for new Macs? I don’t see it. These switchers would have to be retarded to spend that sort of money to continue to run XP. Maybe when they upgrade, they can consider spending more money on Macs. Once that happens, you have to convince long-time Windows users to boot Leopard (or it’s successor) and try it ot Apple would risk a reverse migration.

Now – if only Apple would offer Mac for PCs (very do-able), they would have a reason to w00t it up.

by that you mean “exposed to the versatility and expansive malware selection of Windows” right? Or perhaps “exposed to the overgrown, bloated mess of bad and broken software selection of Windows”? Or perhaps “exposed to the large number of games…” oops you got me there.

I dont know about you but I switched about 6 months ago and I haven’t ever had a single problem doing some work because I couldn’t find software for it. Safari is better, Mail is better, Colloquy is better, iTunes is better, iPhoto is better, Textmate is better, Xcode is better, Transmit is better, the list of osx native softare that murders it’s (millions of) windows counterparts goes on and on.

Frankly it is awesome!!

… (putting flame suite on) …

Dual boot is very simple… just hold down the alt key while the machine boots and you get a selection screen that allows you to booth either OS X or XP. You can select which start up disk you want , either OS X or XP in OS X.

How you install it? And how the dual boot works i guess? :)