Boot Camp beta is released
Posted by Daniel Stout on Wed 5 Apr 2006 at 9:37 AM
Rumors had been swirling for a few months that Apple was going to release their dual-boot solution for running Mac OS X and Windows XP on the new Intel-based Macs. Well, the blogosphere is all a twitter this morning. Boot Camp has been released as an 83 MB beta download. Information here. Apple has some helpful information about the differences between Mac OS X and Windows XP:
EFI and BIOS
Macs use an ultra-modern industry standard technology called EFI to handle booting. Sadly, Windows XP, and even the upcoming Vista, are stuck in the 1980s with old-fashioned BIOS. But with Boot Camp, the Mac can operate smoothly in both centuries.
So true, Apple, and yet so childish. Pretty funny nevertheless. Apparently Boot Camp will be coming standard with Mac OS X 10.5 once it is released, though perhaps under a different name.
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Was Dvorak right? Either way, I enjoyed 'i SoldOut' and 'iRony' from Fark's call to Photoshop products Apple will produce over the next 30 years.
There were a few choice ones from that Fark photoshop. I thought the "iWhat?" hearing aid was pretty funny (especially since Apple just released volume limit controls for the iPod).