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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Member since:2005-07-27
Do you see "PC compatibility cards" made for Macs anymore? Nope! And, I'm sure you can count on two hands how many people still use those few aged computers that actually use those "compatibility cards".
And, I'm sure you knew what I was talking about. I meant as the *MAIN* CPU. Compatibility cards are secondary "co-processors". Macs hace always been non-Intel/PC systems. Oh, sure, people have TRIED making tham compatible, but the lines were drawn long ago...
Mac users
PC users
Anyone using Windows on a Mac (in whatever form) does so because they HAVE to, not because the WANT to (and anyone who WANTS to run Windows on an Intel Mac is probably the same type of person who guts a G5 and sticks some AMD/Intel board inside, just because they like the case). But when the Mac BECOMES a "compatibility card" (A PC with a Mac name stuck on it), then you're just running MacOS X on a PC, instead of running Windows on a Mac.
Sad, really.
The Mac era is over. In cometh the Apple PC! *sigh*
Member since:2005-07-08
I can't even count on one hand people I know who run PC compatibility cards.
There won't be a mac card nor do you need one unless you want to run classic applications which are not supported on OS X on intel.
Mac OS X hasn't always just been on PPC anyway it's descendent of NeXTSTEP which ran on intel and other processors before being ported to PPC and turned into Mac OS X and now it's ported back (having been maintained in secret for the past 5 years). Mac hasn't been the same beast for a while now it didn't just start happening yesterday. It started happening the day Apple switched to new world firmware and OS X.
I also beg to differ on the type of person who would dual boot with windows if they where going to gut their mac they would already instead of doing this since they apearently don't care about OS X. This is more for those people who want to run OS X but also want to run those PC only programs that won't ever be ported to the mac.
Edited 2006-04-06 05:59
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2006-04-05
In case anyone needs reminding, Mac has *ALWAYS* been non-Intel. The 128 up to the 840AV used Motorola 680x0 processors. The 6100 up to the G5 have used IBM or Motorola/Freescale processors. Intel processors of ANY kind were NEVER in a Mac.
What like the 6100/66 DOS Compatable? with the inbuilt 486/DX2 66mhz as well as the 66mhz PPC 601 chip?