Boot Camp Beta

post from Mac Geekery - Get your geek on. on 05 April 2006 09:01:13 AM. © Mac Geekery - Get your geek on.

Well, if this doesn't qualify as a hack...

Apple just released a beta of Boot Camp. This is a BIOS-emulating EFI module, Windows drivers, and associated Mac OS X control and setup software that allows "legacy" OSes like Windows XP to boot on a Mac. This comes with an associated firmware update for each of the Intel Macs to allow support for this.

Boy, I wonder what the people that funded the "XP on Mac" contest feel about having an official solution now. Smiling

"If we'd just waited..."

Although, in all likelihood, it was the contest and the popularity of the solution that was probably the free marketing that brought this about. If the contest hadn't existed, hadn't been won, and hadn't been popular afterwards then Apple probably wouldn't have done this.

I do love that this completely proves my point, though. Apple is, as they've always said, a hardware company. And now they, instead of Dell, will dual-boot Mac OS X and Windows. Now Apple, instead of Dell, will sell machines that do a little bit of everything.

Now I really do need a new iMac...

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