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?Bootcamp: End of Apple Today Apple sanctioned a dual-boot Mac/Windows OS Mac, and gives end users the tools to create such a set up. Is this the beginning of the end of Apple? Perhaps, but as all this unfolds, I feel a little bit like Apple's being consumed, via its own choice, by the Borg. Remember that Steve Jobs told everyone, in no uncertain terms, that Apple PCs running the IBM PowerMac CPU were faster than Intel-based PCs. Period. End of discussion. We here at PC Mag had a hard time verifying those claims because of platform differences, but the test we were able to run usually proved Jobs wrong. So the PowerPC microprocessor was more than fast enough for Macs until, well, it wasn't. Now the new Intel Macs are the fastest Apple systems ever. Jobs said so and he clearly believes it. The Borg always believe what they say. With today's Bootcamp announcement, we have Apple giving in to an obvious demand. But company reps also made it dead-clear that while they've built this utility and made it super-simple to use, Apple has no interest in selling or supporting Windows. Right. They do not want Mac Mini users calling them up saying, "Windows isn't running very smoothly on my Mac Mini." That's understandable. Why should Apple's support techs get tied up in a Windows mess? So Apple is simply acting as an enabler, stopping end users from jury-rigging a dual-boot system. But they're not selling Windows. Until, well, they are. As the Borg were fond of saying, resistance is futile and, in truth, I think Apple has little interest in resisting. Two years from now, end users will probably have the option of buying OSX Macs or Windows Macs. This second official step in supporting the Windows OS (make no mistake, adopting the Intel CPU was the first) is a seeding phase. Apple told us that they think Bootcamp will help make the Mac more appealing to those thinking about switching platforms and that it will provide –especially when it becomes part of the Leopard OSX upgrade later this year or next— a safety net for people who switch but still want their Windows and Windows apps. There's already considerable proof that dual-booting can work (we proved it here in our labs), and I have every expectation that this utility will work as promised. Actually, does any one else find it odd that Apple rolled out such a utility so quickly? This obviously shows some forethought and planning. The Borg were known to plan too. Bootcamp means we'll see more and more Macintoshes in the workplace and at home and more end users will come in contact with what is the only truly unique family of PCs in the industry. Apple industrial design is consistently breathtaking and makes other Intel-based PCs look dull by comparison. People who might never have experienced a Mac or come in contact with one will be turned on—Apple knows this. Bootcamp marks the beginning of the end for Apple as the renegade for the design set and the beginning of Apple as a dominant player in the global desktop PC game. It will become absorbed. Remember, you heard it here first.

Booting Windows on Macs: Why It Matters BootCamp Partition.JPGApple's announcement this morning of software that lets Macintoshes boot Windows is, depending on your point of view, either took a major step towards competing with Windows PC makers like Dell and Hewlett-Packard, or bowed to the reality that there are a lot more Windows applications and people want to run them. The basic announcement was a beta version of software called Boot Camp, which lets users with a Microsoft Windows XP installation disc to install XP on an Intel-based Macintosh. This isn't unexpected: people have been predicting Apple would do this ever since its intentions to create Intel-based machines, and indeed, there already has been software available to do this, albeit not very elegantly. We've tried it in PC Labs. What's new here is Apple's own software, which should make it easier, and Apple's plans to make this a standard feature in ''Leopard,'' the next major release of Mac OS X, which Apple says it will preview at its Worldwide Developer Conference in August. Apple has not yet set a date for the release of Leopard. Brian Croll, senior director, OS X product marketing, says that ''Ever since we introduced an Intel-based Mac, we've had lots of requests to run Windows'' and this will satisfy these requests. He says there are two kinds of users who are interested in running Windows on a Mac; people who would like to run a Mac and have the one application they need to run in Windows; and those who aren't sure about the transition but who want a ''safety net.'' Croll describes the way the process works: Software called Boot Camp Assistant first creates a separate partition for Windows. You determine how much you want for Windows and how much for OS X, and can set the Windows partition in either FAT32 or NTFS format. Then it creates a CD with the Windows drivers to support the screen, audio, wired and wireless networks, keyboard functions such as eject key and brightness, etc.. You then install Windows using a full Microsoft Windows XP SP2 disk. Once you install Windows, then you can set your default startup (either in Mac system preferences or the control panel); or hold down the alt or option key during the boot, which gives you two choices: Windows or Mac. If you have set your Windows partition as FAT32, Mac OS X will be able to read and write files in that partition; an NTFS partition will be read only. By default, Windows will not be able to read a Mac OSX volume. A couple of things are important to note here. First, Apple is only letting people install the software; it isn't supporting Windows. ''Apple has no intention to either sell or support Windows,'' Croll said. Second, though you can run both OS's, you can't run them simultaneously, or easily copy and paste data between them – unlike software such as Virtual PC, which ran on earlier PowerPC-based Macintoshes. I won't be surprised to see that kind of software for Intel-based Macs, of course, but as of yet, we haven't seen it. Still, this is important, largely because of the huge number of Windows-based applications that aren't available on Mac OS X. Apple's OS is very elegant, and Apple has some very nice native applications, but Macintosh simply can't match the depth of applications on the Windows platform. This is especially true for vertical-market and corporate applications, but it also applies to most consumer applications as well. It's an open question whether BootCamp will lead Windows users to buy Apple machines and later switch over to Mac OS X; or get Apple users to try Windows and stay there; or just provide an option for people who prefer OS X but want an option to run more software. My guess is that the bulk of the users of this will fit into that last category. Boot Camp it will work on all three lines of Intel-based Macs released so far: the iMac, MacMini, and MacBook Pro. And all three have unique looks that no maker of Windows-centric machines quite matches, , especially the all-in-one iMac and the 17-inch MacBook Pro, which is only 1-inch thick. And you'll get machines that can run both OS's, something that only Apple will offer. Now this won't be inexpensive; you are effectively paying for both Apple's hardware and software combination, which tends to be higher than equivalent Windows-based machines; and for a full version of Windows. So my guess is this will appeal to a relatively small group of users. But the result gives you flexibility you won't find anywhere else.