Leopard for $69 ? Come on people ... it will be more expensive ... the $69 days are over !
Anyway ... I will get it ;o)
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Final Boot Camp To Be Offered To Tiger Users For $30?
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Leopard for $69 ? Come on people ... it will be more expensive ... the $69 days are over !
Anyway ... I will get it ;o)
Why not do it the other way around. Delete the Parallels Harddrive and boot from the bootcamp partition, gives you the good of Parallels with the good of boot camp. It is what i do, although i do have the parallels harddrive image storage on an external if i ever need it.
$30 is not a lot. Going out to dinner for 2 is usually more than $30, and you end up crapping out your meal the next morning. I think its funny some people complain about software being $30 when they use it every day.
Come on now ...
So I've read most of these posts and I don't understand one thing.
I currently own Adobe Creative Suite 2, so I downloaded Photoshop CS3 beta, now I expect that in a few months I'll have to purchase CS3 and I sure don't expect Adobe to just give me Photoshop because I've been using it. I also know that it is a beta, and therefore, by definition, not final and not mine for permanent use. So why is everyone upset about Apple charging when the beta expires?!?!?!?!?!? This makes no sense at all.
Master Atrus
MacBookPro 2.16
So I've read most of these posts and I don't understand one thing.
I currently own Adobe Creative Suite 2, so I downloaded Photoshop CS3 beta, now I expect that in a few months I'll have to purchase CS3 and I sure don't expect Adobe to just give me Photoshop because I've been using it. I also know that it is a beta, and therefore, by definition, not final and not mine for permanent use. So why is everyone upset about Apple charging when the beta expires?!?!?!?!?!? This makes no sense at all.
Master Atrus
MacBookPro 2.16
BootCamp does not DISallow use of a BT keyboard.. get inventive... You can install drivers after you've installed bootcamp.. nothing says you can't do that. If it isn't set up for you, set it up yourself.
Who said Free?
or Adobe for Lightroom, Photoshop CS3, Boinx Fotomagic 2, etc. etc.
or Adobe for Lightroom, Photoshop CS3, Boinx Fotomagic 2, etc. etc.
Unlike the 'n' firmware, I'm not sure why people feel they are entitled to a free copy of Bootcamp for Tiger. Frankly I'm amazed Apple is even OFFERING BC for Tiger. I am sure if it wasn't people would be whining about that decision. Be glad Apple shared the beta with the public.
$30 may be cheap or expensive, depending on your perspective, but I think the marketplace will be the final arbiter. Personally I probably wouldn't pay $30 for it (moot since I'm buying Leopard). I find Parallels much handier though.
$30 may be cheap or expensive, depending on your perspective, but I think the marketplace will be the final arbiter. Personally I probably wouldn't pay $30 for it (moot since I'm buying Leopard). I find Parallels much handier though.
Because they're even greedier than the "greedy" corporations they're criticizing.
It does.
iMac C2D w/ BT keyboard and mouse. Works. Doesn't recognise it until the system has fully booted up like, but its there.
I will so I can hack it from the same machine using the virtual machine products. I should be able to create a virtual network hosting multiple windows versions to hack into and my packets never leave the machine.
Wow way to be dramatic about it. You remind me of those people who are driving in front of you near a stop sign, then SLAM on their brakes and get out of the car saying "OMG YOU HIT ME! MY BACK OMG I WILL NEVER WALK AGAIN!!!1"
EXACTLY! I was CLEARLY NOT talking about BootCamp with the 30 day trial comparison. And that is EXACTLY my point that these evil companies put out TRIAL software to get us to BUY it. Very DECEPTIVE.
SAME with BETA software NO MATTER HOW LONG IT IS OUT THERE, they expect you to PAY FOR IT someday. This leads to ridiculousness of people complaining. Therefore everything should be FREE. GET IT????
See 'ya,
So I've read most of these posts and I don't understand one thing.
I currently own Adobe Creative Suite 2, so I downloaded Photoshop CS3 beta, now I expect that in a few months I'll have to purchase CS3 and I sure don't expect Adobe to just give me Photoshop because I've been using it. I also know that it is a beta, and therefore, by definition, not final and not mine for permanent use. So why is everyone upset about Apple charging when the beta expires?!?!?!?!?!? This makes no sense at all.
Master Atrus
MacBookPro 2.16
Alas, you have been brainwashed. Since you are using the beta and find it a useful tool, everyone knows that Adobe is just suckering you to spend money so they can make a profit. Filthy dogs.
You probably also think you should pay for food, gasoline, and clothing also. Go ahead, admit it.
Thank you for noticing!
Some people take this all so serious. I'll bet most of the complainers spent more than $30 for fast food last week...
BootCamp I know will be stable because I've been using it since the day it was released by Apple.
I can't say the same about Leopard. So for those who don't want to be early adopters, and ginny pigs this is a good option. I'm going to be honest here. The stories I heard from my friends about their upgrade, and subsequent downgrade, experience with Tiger when it first launched makes me very twitchy about going anywhere near Leopard until 10.5.1.
I'm still someone on the bench about upgrading in an of itself. Right now the feature set for me simply does not warrant the theoretical $130 upgrade price. Now if Apple REALLY wows us with some "Top Secret" features between now and launch I may change my tune. Right now? Meh. Whatever.
Unlike the Pre-N upgrade though I consider this a pretty good deal. Tiger wasn't designed to dual boot with Windows. That is a new, very large, feature for the Mac. Up til now we have been using beta software. Just about every beta out there is usually free, whereas the the final version is paid. This is a very common practice. $30 for the ability it pretty nice considering they COULD simpply put the feature in Leopard and tell everyone to go buy Leopard if you want the feature. I'm been pounding on Apple lately for being very Microsoftian in some of their decisions. This, for once, is very Apple. Now if only Apple could get the bloody mouse and suspend to work right on the latest drivers they released...
Didn't parallels do the same thing? I mean I don't hear people bitching about that. Yet theyll run to them to not buy bootcamp because apple gave the beta away and MIGHT (afterall this is a rumor and we know how many of those are false) charge for the final version.
Yes, charging money for their products, and such extravagant amounts. When will it ever stop? Possibly when they go bankrupt listening to whiners.
I think people forget here that Boot Camp is intended to be a feature of Leopard...
They're not obligated to make it available for Tiger users, free, or otherwise.
I would applaud them for making it available to those who justifiably don't want to upgrade to Leopard for reasons already mentioned in the thread.
They're not obligated to make it available for Tiger users, free, or otherwise.
I would applaud them for making it available to those who justifiably don't want to upgrade to Leopard for reasons already mentioned in the thread.
Pleeeese, keep this in the 'here and now'. Your opinion is lacking in everything except humor.