{"id":161,"date":"2006-04-05T10:01:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-05T19:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/05\/official-apple-dual-boot-macwin-software-released\/"},"modified":"2007-03-03T11:36:46","modified_gmt":"2007-03-03T20:36:46","slug":"official-apple-dual-boot-macwin-software-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/05\/official-apple-dual-boot-macwin-software-released\/","title":{"rendered":"Official Apple dual-boot Mac\/Win software released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Computerworld is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/softwaretopics\/os\/macos\/story\/0,10801,110220,00.html?SKC=macos-110220\" target=\"_blank\">reporting<\/a>  today that Apple <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/macosx\/bootcamp\/\" target=\"_blank\">released<\/a>  a public beta of Boot Camp, a program that uses the GUI to partition the drive, burn an install CD with all the required drivers and install WindowsXP for dual booting on a MacX86. It is currently available as a limited time trial, but is reported to be included in the next version of OSX, 10.5 Leopard, which is to be released later this year.<\/p>\n<p>This seems to be coming from Apple a lot quicker than anyone guessed. With that in mind, how much longer will it be before Apple releases a version of OSX that doesn&#8217;t require Apple hardware? Given that their business model involves selling the hardware on which to run their OS I doubt it could be anytime soon, although I really do hope they decide to take that route.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the assertions of Apple&#8217;s senior vice president of worlwide marketing, Phillip Schiller, I don&#8217;t think that Apple necessarily has &#8220;superior hardware&#8221; nor do I think that the dual boot strategy makes me more apt to switch. I have long built my own PCs using the hardware I choose, or ordered from vendors where I can select the hardware to be installed, and I don&#8217;t intend to change that. I would not be surprised to find that I am not alone in hoping that Apple releases an &#8220;any X86 hardware&#8221; version of OSX.<\/p>\n<p>Until then, I won&#8217;t hold my breath.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Computerworld is reporting today that Apple released a public beta of Boot Camp, a program that uses the GUI to partition the drive, burn an install CD with all the required drivers and install WindowsXP &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[21],"tags":[158],"class_list":["post-161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-os-x","tag-os-x"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pxT7i-2B","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}