Apple embraces the dual boot
April 5th, 2006
Apple does it. Very interesting for Apple to come at it this way. Windows users are used to a little more pre-announcement love than Mac users. Quite a development.
And maybe the rumors are true that one day it won’t just be a dual-boot system, but a real-time run of Mac OS and Windows. That kind of machine in a laptop would be a web developers dream come true. I wonder if such a technology would grow market share. o
April 6th, 2006 at 9:03 am
Well, if Apple’s stock price is any indication (from 61.00 at close Tuesday to 69.00 today), there must be quite a number of people who think this will up their market share.
April 6th, 2006 at 11:20 am
I learned on a PC my father bought when I was 16 in 1996. Later in Art school I got a G3 powerbook mac because that was like, the coolest thing a kid in art school could have. My poor father spent 3 years paying the dang thing off, but boy did that machine freakin rule. I think it only ever crashes once and it was easy to find a person to help me fix it, and that was after i had been using it for a very long time.
After that I got PC’s because at work I was using PC’s… then about a year ago I got an alienware $2,600 laptop. It died after 6 months, motherboard failure. I called with 30+ hours with tech support and they still wanted to talk more to take the dang thing back while under warranty, if they dont AGREE you should send it back then they charges you $200 to send it back. HELL NO!!
So we trashed it, excepted the $2,600 loss, and bought a $1,500 powerbook that I ADORE ADORE ADORE!
I plan on never having anything but a mac for my home computer. I wish I could have one at work.
April 6th, 2006 at 11:21 am
Oh and my point in saying all that is, I have no WANT IN THE WORLD to put windows on any computer I buy, so no market share interest from this consumer! All my PC’s I ever had had to be reformated after 6 months because they ran crappy and had to many problems after a year, nearly useless. I can still fire up that G3 powerbook and it runs just fine.
April 7th, 2006 at 9:17 am
leftygrrrl, virtual PC is painfully slow. and not that great. but it sounds like there will be some new virtualization programs that will rock, very soon.