samedi, avril 08, 2006 Yes, yes, enough of the Boot Camp hype already. It was only a matter of time that the Apple folks decided to do this - why bother carving a niche of snotty mac users when you can take a hearty bite out of the Intel pie? Virtualization hasn't been working out for the gamers for a long, long time, and that's a huge, huge unopened can of a market right there - it was just time for this technology to appear.(I'd be very surprised if Microsoft hasn't been working on this for the PowerPC as well. The MS version will probably surface after a couple of months. Unless they're too busy perfecting Longhorn... if Longhorn even exists. That update to WinXP has been so long in the making that it could be an urban legend. Or they might have been too busy with the launch of Origami Project... which was more like a non-launch, actually.) I am not particularly jazzed-up about this. The solution seems blindingly obvious to me - just buy a PC AND a Mac. After all the software and hardware you have to buy to make this dual-boot system a reality, it'll probably add up to the same, dollars-and-cents wise anyway. Dual-booting also doesn't allow monitor spanning either (one system on EACH SCREEN), which is (imho) one of the f'king coolest things around - you have no idea how much I salivated over the SEVEN - count them, baby - SEVEN screens that Swordfish's Hugh Jackman was working on to crack the 1024-bit encryption for evil, goatee-ed John Travolta. (Of course, I was salivating over Hugh Jackman as well, but that's another post altogether.) All that being said, this is a rather scary development for ... everyone involved. What happens if (Gasp! Shock! Horror!) MS and Apple decide to join forces [Boot Camp - yeah, whatever] |
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