Wednesday, April 05, 2006
Ridiculously Cool
As an Apple fan who would like to run a dual boot system on the new Intel based Macintosh boxes, Christmas came a little early.
More and more people are buying and loving Macs. To make this choice simply irresistible, Apple will include technology in the next major release of Mac OS X, Leopard, that lets you install and run the Windows XP operating system on your Mac. Called Boot Camp (for now), you can download a public beta today.
A dual boot system isn’t quite as good as the upcoming virtualization technology that will let users run a variety of operating systems concurrently (not in emulation, but in their own virtual spaces on the same machine). Still, having a dual boot system would give me the opportunity to make one machine into a much more useful tool for development.
I’m all giddy.
Now I just need to buy a new computer…
Update: Fireant Gazette noticed the cool new tool, too. And the Modulator might be coming back into the fold. I can’t help but think that this was a hell of a smart move on Apple’s part.
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I was talking with a student yesterday and asked the question: “I don’t know what they’re going to add to 10.5 to make it worth the upgrade.” Today, I got my answer. I’ve got a stats program that I’m going to love running on this thing.
Dude, a whole new world of gaming is about to open up for you!
Looks like I will rejoin the Apple family when it is time to replace my current laptop:Once you’ve completed Boot Camp, simply hold down the option key at startup to choose between Mac OS X and Windows. (That’s the “alt” key for you longtime Windows users.) After starting up, your Mac runs Windows completely natively. Simply restart to come back...
Hominahominahomina.
It’s going to be so freakin’ cool. Of course, part of the cool is the new toy factor, part of the cool is that it will actually be a useful change for me.
Bill Gates has to be grinning like an idiot.
Jerry, I was thinking that a whole old world of gaming will be opening up to me. It’s been an awfully long time since I was able to play a certain card game.
It’s cool, certainly, but it ain’t what I want. What I’d like to be able to do is run Windows programs on my Mac without rebooting or running something like VirtualPC. Seriously, I can do this on my Unix box, somebody’s <em>got</i> to be working feverishly to get this working on OS X on Intel.
For now I’ll just stick to my KVM switch.
(Since I
can’tam not currently allowed to buy an Intel Mac.)What I’m personally most interested in is this. Virtualization promises no reboots and no emulation. Of course, it would still have its limitations, but, depending on cost, I’ll be curious to see how well it works.
I dunno. To me this sounds too much like offering vegans a new and improved soyburger that tastes and smells just like real meat!
Which as you can imagine only begs the question, “If you want to eat something that tastes just like meat, why are you a vegan?”
There’s another beta product out that will allow you to run Linux and Many of the Microsoft Operating systems. http://www.parallels.com/en/products/workstation/mac/. You can these Operating systems simultaneously.
Things to consider with the new Intel Macs is they are not 64 bit operating systems that you are getting on the IBM chip sets. Good? Bad? Lots of pros and cons. The Intel chip runs cooler and consumes less power. A 64 bit OS for high end graphics and video rocks. The G3, G4 and G5 are SISC chips and have mathmatical advantages (see http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/R/RISC.html). Will Apple get a 64 bit Intel chip set? Do they need it? One thing’s for sure, at least for me, the development of the “Universal” applications for the Mac (needed to use the Intel natively without using Rosetta) seem to be a long time coming. For some of us having applications that are for the SISC and not CISC the cost of new software as Apple moves to the Intel (CISC chip set) is a great concern as well.