ya like apples?:)
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Nyoko Salome
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04-05-2006 09:16
lol... well how 'bout these?  from http://www.macintouch.com/... Apple today declared war on its PC competitors with Boot Camp Public Beta: Available as a download beginning today, Boot Camp allows users with a Microsoft Windows XP installation disc to install Windows XP on an Intel-based Mac, and once installation is complete, users can restart their computer to run either Mac OS X or Windows XP. Boot Camp will be a feature in "Leopard," Apple's next major release of Mac OS X, that will be previewed at Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference in August. "Apple has no desire or plan to sell or support Windows, but many customers have expressed their interest to run Windows on Apple's superior hardware now that we use Intel processors," said Philip Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. "We think Boot Camp makes the Mac even more appealing to Windows users considering making the switch." -------- wow, kinda crazy! so how much (or little) data-sharing can work back-and-forth between the two systems? this setup sounds like a "one os at a time" thing; as someone else mentioned, vpc may still be necessary for someone to do heavy amounts of data-swapping between os's... still, it's kind of a freaky red-letter day for apple fans. WHUUUUMP... billy, ya just got served. now - it's on!! 
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Reitsuki Kojima
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04-05-2006 09:48
From: Nyoko Salome still, it's kind of a freaky red-letter day for apple fans. WHUUUUMP... billy, ya just got served. now - it's on!! Actually, no. It's been known since the early beta days of the mactel project that any system that would run the mactel iteration of OSX would run windows, and vis versa. In fact, from then till now, mactel OSX has been running just fine on non-mac hardware. The only trick is getting it to install - Apple deliberatly rigged it so that it wouldn't, normally, work - and now they released a program as if they just figured it out after months of intensive study. 's got nothing to do with data transfer anyhoo. I transfer stuff between G-processor macs and my wintel box on a daily basis.
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Ghoti Nyak
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04-05-2006 10:11
Woot. It will be nice to be able to dual-boot rather than have my mac and POS windoze box both taking up desk space. Now I jsut gotta get a new mac that will support this.  -Ghoti
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Burke Prefect
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04-05-2006 10:15
Yep. If only I could afford a MAc.....
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Nyoko Salome
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Join date: 18 Jul 2005
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04-05-2006 10:20
From: Ghoti Nyak Woot. It will be nice to be able to dual-boot rather than have my mac and POS windoze box both taking up desk space. Now I jsut gotta get a new mac that will support this. -Ghoti weeeelll, that was my original question really - this 'boot camp' setup isn't a dual-boot. you can only run either xp or osx one at a time (though both can be loaded on separate partitions). to do so would still require vpc or another of the pc emulators running within osx...  which is actually what i meant, keitsuki... swap issues on one box, not between boxes. i'm in lots of shared environments myself... so i wonder - would it -ever- be possible to dual-boot, and be able to 'fast user switch' between the two? as nice and yummy as that sounds - shudder - i'd hate to be tasked with that lil' engineering project...
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Reitsuki Kojima
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04-05-2006 10:27
From: Nyoko Salome so i wonder - would it -ever- be possible to dual-boot, and be able to 'fast user switch' between the two? as nice and yummy as that sounds - shudder - i'd hate to be tasked with that lil' engineering project... Theoreticly. You can blame Jobs for it not already being possible - I've had as many as three distinct operating systems working just fine on my desktop before, all in a boot manager. But Apple deliberatly made co-existance difficult.
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Jake Reitveld
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04-05-2006 10:38
I generally find the macs hardware and performance far inferior to my AMD. Why bother with the expense of an apple? I love my Ipod, but Apple has not really been a serious option in the pC world for many years, except to the die hard apple fan base.
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