Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 5th Apr 2006 19:01 UTC
Apple's Boot Camp has stirred things up quite a bit around the net. eWeek states: "CIOs have a lot invested in Windows and aren't going to junk the OS for Apple. However, if a CIO can get a twofer - Windows XP and Mac OS on one machine - a flyer may make some sense." In an analysis, eWeek concludes: "Boot Camp might give businesses and consumers another reason to look at the Mac, analysts and IT managers say." Cnet wonders if all this is good news for MS, while Ars looks at the limitations. Apple also released firmware updates for Intel Macs, which supposedly add BIOS support to EFI so you can just boot an XP (or Linux!) CD without using Boot Camp.
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2006-04-05
Err, you can't possibly tell; it's a chicken and egg situation. Are there no games for Macs because Mac users are not gamers, or are Mac users not gamers because there are no games for the Mac (or at least, far less than for Windows) ?
It's not a chicken-and-egg situation. It's cause and consequence. Mac users do not, currently (well, at least not until the 5th of April, 2006, the date when Boot Camp was unveiled), use their computers primarily for gaming purposes, period. For whatever reason, be it taste or unavailability, they don't. Would they rather, given the possibility? In my case that's a resounding yes! But that's not the point I made.
What I said in the other half of my post is that this situation has changed somehow, since now you CAN actually run the very same games enjoyed in the Windows world on current and future Macs.
That's not to say they're running games on OS X, but on Macintosh computers. Would they rather not dual-boot? Of course! Was that the point I made? Nope. If they were gamers in the first place they'd have no choice but buy consoles or a Windows PC. Now (except if you happen to buy current Intel-based Macs with onboard graphics hardware, not the ones to be introduced later this year), a secondary PC gaming rig is unnecessary.