BOOT CAMP!
The most exciting development of the week has been Apple’s release of “Boot Camp”, a utility that allows you to run Windows XP on your Intel-powered Mac.
So much for Apple’s claims they won’t support running Windows on their Intel powered machines. (Well, they’re not going to provide tech support but even providing “Boot Camp” is farther than I expected them to go.)
This is absolutely great! To be honest, this does make me want to buy an Intel-powered Mac now. Why? Because worse case, the Adobe apps I have that won’t run well using Rosetta may run well on the Mac using Windows. I say “may” because I’m just not sure about the video driver situation. But if that runs well, then I don’t have to worry about taking hits on Photoshop’s performance.
As for how to get data from the Windows partition to the Mac partition, a small external drive, either USB or Ethernet, will solve that problem.
Of course, this does bring up the specter, fretted about by some, that most people would do what I’m proposing here, i.e., running Windows versions of the software vice buying Mac versions and thereby killing the Mac development world. And that would hold true to a degree. For instance, if my first Intel powered Mac is a MacBook Pro, then I might choose to run a Windows version of Photoshop CS2 under Windows rather than buying Photoshop CS3 (or whatever the next version for the Mac will be named). But I would not think that situation would last forever. I’d move back to a Mac and Intel native application at some point as soon as I could easily afford it. It just would not be as soon as I might otherwise have if the Windows version had not been there to fill the gap during the Intel transition.
Now, if I can talk my wife into letting me get a MacBook Pro…!
(NOTE: I just chatted with her and she gave me the “go ahead” to offer her 1.8 GHz G5 iMac and her 12 inch 1 GHz G4 PowerBook to PowerMax in trade against a 2.0 GHz MacBook Pro with a 120 GB hard drive. Assuming the trade-in values are acceptable, I probably will order the MacBook Pro. My wife would get my 2.0 GHz iMac and my 12 inch 1.5 GHz PowerBook in trade. I would move the data on my iMac to the MacBook Pro and my G5 PowerMac. I would use the G5 PM as my everyday machine but slowly transition tasks over to the MacBook Pro.
UPDATE: I did talk to my wife, and she thinks I need to go for a 20 inch iMac instead. The more I think about it, the more I like that idea. I can easily partition 50GB for XP on its 250GB hard drive and then run everything…including my flight simulators..on the iMac. This will allow me to either get rid of my PC, put it somewhere else in the house, or give it away to someone in the family.)
So much for Apple’s claims they won’t support running Windows on their Intel powered machines. (Well, they’re not going to provide tech support but even providing “Boot Camp” is farther than I expected them to go.)
This is absolutely great! To be honest, this does make me want to buy an Intel-powered Mac now. Why? Because worse case, the Adobe apps I have that won’t run well using Rosetta may run well on the Mac using Windows. I say “may” because I’m just not sure about the video driver situation. But if that runs well, then I don’t have to worry about taking hits on Photoshop’s performance.
As for how to get data from the Windows partition to the Mac partition, a small external drive, either USB or Ethernet, will solve that problem.
Of course, this does bring up the specter, fretted about by some, that most people would do what I’m proposing here, i.e., running Windows versions of the software vice buying Mac versions and thereby killing the Mac development world. And that would hold true to a degree. For instance, if my first Intel powered Mac is a MacBook Pro, then I might choose to run a Windows version of Photoshop CS2 under Windows rather than buying Photoshop CS3 (or whatever the next version for the Mac will be named). But I would not think that situation would last forever. I’d move back to a Mac and Intel native application at some point as soon as I could easily afford it. It just would not be as soon as I might otherwise have if the Windows version had not been there to fill the gap during the Intel transition.
Now, if I can talk my wife into letting me get a MacBook Pro…!
(NOTE: I just chatted with her and she gave me the “go ahead” to offer her 1.8 GHz G5 iMac and her 12 inch 1 GHz G4 PowerBook to PowerMax in trade against a 2.0 GHz MacBook Pro with a 120 GB hard drive. Assuming the trade-in values are acceptable, I probably will order the MacBook Pro. My wife would get my 2.0 GHz iMac and my 12 inch 1.5 GHz PowerBook in trade. I would move the data on my iMac to the MacBook Pro and my G5 PowerMac. I would use the G5 PM as my everyday machine but slowly transition tasks over to the MacBook Pro.
UPDATE: I did talk to my wife, and she thinks I need to go for a 20 inch iMac instead. The more I think about it, the more I like that idea. I can easily partition 50GB for XP on its 250GB hard drive and then run everything…including my flight simulators..on the iMac. This will allow me to either get rid of my PC, put it somewhere else in the house, or give it away to someone in the family.)
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