Apple Releases Boot Camp Beta

[tawollen]

Two buttons?

Now that there is bootcamp, and Apple seems to be allowing more windows ~things~, do you think they will ever put a 2button trackpad into the laptops? Using a desktop isn't a problem, but so much on windows seems to want to have that other button. As much as I would love to, I can't see using a MacBook pro as my main computer if I need to run windows a lot.

Thoughts?

 

[tawollen]

Two buttons?

Woops, accidently repllied to the wrong thread...

I am not sure if this has been brought up, if so I haven't seen it.

Now that there is bootcamp, and Apple seems to be allowing more windows ~things~, do you think they will ever put a 2button trackpad into the laptops? Using a desktop isn't a problem, but so much on windows seems to want to have that other button. As much as I would love to, I can't see using a MacBook pro as my main computer if I need to run windows a lot.

Thoughts?

 

[Coyote2006]

Ok I am a bit confused right now. According to this http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/index.cfm?home&NewsID=14389 here what they said "He speculates that when Boot Camp ships as part of Mac OS X 10.5, it will offer full virtualization, so users will not need to reboot their machines to move between operating systems." What's going on now?!

This would make me buy a MacBookPro. Since I need to use MacOSX AND WinXP all the time and the MacBookPro ist fast enough for grafics, webprogramming and gaming (of course ).

Finally getting rid of two machines under my desk and having my complete office with me. Sounds nice.

 

[Coyote2006]

Woops, accidently repllied to the wrong thread...

I am not sure if this has been brought up, if so I haven't seen it.

Now that there is bootcamp, and Apple seems to be allowing more windows ~things~, do you think they will ever put a 2button trackpad into the laptops? Using a desktop isn't a problem, but so much on windows seems to want to have that other button. As much as I would love to, I can't see using a MacBook pro as my main computer if I need to run windows a lot.

Thoughts?

Replace the harddrive to a 7200rpm one and you have a really fast "Windows" machine. And buying a mouse will solve the other problem too...

 

[Doctor Q]

When InformationWeek magazine reported on Bootcamp in early May, they totally botched the explanation.

Among the things they said in their article, which is still unchanged on their web site:

Running Windows on the Mac may be sport for some, but it's not likely to be all that attractive to the business world. For one thing, Boot Camp provides a new way for Windows viruses to creep inside the firewall. Corporate PCs have Windows antivirus programs installed. Macs don't.

They also quote an IT professional who speculates that it is a "workaround, allowing some parts of Windows XP to function and others to partially function or malfunction."

I could only laugh when I first read that and imagined I'd see a retraction or correction in the next issue.

Well, sort of. In a subsequent issue, a letter to the editor gives them their comeuppance, pointing out that it's a full version of Windows installed by the user, which can include all the usual antivirus software, and that it's a full installation of Windows in a separate partition, not a portion of Windows installed within Mac OS.

The faulty original article is still on their website, misleading mistakes and all.