Check your facts. Microsoft has included a free boot loader in Windows for as long as I can remember. Linux comes with free boot loaders. There are also many thirdparty freeware boot loaders available for the x86 platform. Boot loaders should be part of the OS like the case with Leopard, they shouldnt charge money for them even if they werent originally included on the disc. Boot Camp also gives many people a reason to buy a Mac, it automatically makes Apple money even when its free.
Hey Uh, you do realize that it WILL be a part of the OS, right? It just won't be a part of the OLD OS once Leopard is released. A lot of it most likely has to do with the way Leopard will interact with windows (Boot Camp is not fond of Vista in its present state) and I'd imagine that a lot of the features required to run Vista cannot simply be added on to Tiger with an Update. Apple knows that many people will buy macs once Leopard comes out with BootCamp, but they do also recognize that people that bought macs because of the BC Beta KNOW that the Beta is only a time-limited piece of software and that they'll have to pay for the real thing.
A boot loader that emulates and creates a virtual BIOS to boot a completely different OS than the system was built to operate? - You feel should be completely free?
Sure. You dev up something complimentary and we'll see how it goes over.
On the Mac vs. PC argument, it's been going on for ages guys.
Mac builds nice looking, great working hardware. PCs are developed by everyone under the sun, and are hence given a terrible reputation. A Mac system spec'd to the same as your desktop will burn it up in flames. No question about it. You'll be little pieces of dust floating in the air. A Mac system equipped to spec will burn any PC.
It's sad that most of the Mac bashers here have never used a Mac system, or haven't used one since the G3. Please, please- for your own sake, go use one. Just go to the Apple store close by and tell them you'd like to try one out. Tell the guy you're a diehard Winblows fan, and have never touched a Mac- but want to learn the ways of the Jedi.
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Check your facts. Microsoft has included a free boot loader in Windows for as long as I can remember. Linux comes with free boot loaders. There are also many thirdparty freeware boot loaders available for the x86 platform. Boot loaders should be part of the OS like the case with Leopard, they shouldnt charge money for them even if they werent originally included on the disc. Boot Camp also gives many people a reason to buy a Mac, it automatically makes Apple money even when its free.
Hey Uh, you do realize that it WILL be a part of the OS, right? It just won't be a part of the OLD OS once Leopard is released. A lot of it most likely has to do with the way Leopard will interact with windows (Boot Camp is not fond of Vista in its present state) and I'd imagine that a lot of the features required to run Vista cannot simply be added on to Tiger with an Update. Apple knows that many people will buy macs once Leopard comes out with BootCamp, but they do also recognize that people that bought macs because of the BC Beta KNOW that the Beta is only a time-limited piece of software and that they'll have to pay for the real thing.
A boot loader that emulates and creates a virtual BIOS to boot a completely different OS than the system was built to operate? - You feel should be completely free?
Sure. You dev up something complimentary and we'll see how it goes over.
On the Mac vs. PC argument, it's been going on for ages guys.
Mac builds nice looking, great working hardware. PCs are developed by everyone under the sun, and are hence given a terrible reputation. A Mac system spec'd to the same as your desktop will burn it up in flames. No question about it. You'll be little pieces of dust floating in the air. A Mac system equipped to spec will burn any PC.
It's sad that most of the Mac bashers here have never used a Mac system, or haven't used one since the G3. Please, please- for your own sake, go use one. Just go to the Apple store close by and tell them you'd like to try one out. Tell the guy you're a diehard Winblows fan, and have never touched a Mac- but want to learn the ways of the Jedi.
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Chris