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i wonder if it’ll do linux, too
posted by: benplaut · 4/6/06
As a matter of fact, it will. 😊
http://theweeklyrant.com/article/8/news-apple-bootcamp-boots-linux
posted by: John Goulden · 4/6/06
Interesting. Does this mean that Apple’s finally admitting that it’s just a PC?
And is it admitting that it has a tiny fraction of the software available to PC users?
Furtermore, how far away can it be that people get Mac OSX running on standard PCs in a way that’s easy to set up? - Once this is possible, a lot of people will just buy the cheaper, more powerful PC hardware from generic PC makers and run them as Macs - kind of like the “Mac clone” days.
Of course, those who like the appearance of a Mac would still pay the premium to have the real McCoy - I think this could actually boost Apple’s share of the market - having a group of dedicated users who are less wealthy (i.e., can’t afford Apple’s computers) would bolster their share of the OS market (currently just above 4% - a bit below Windows 95’s current share), which would, in the end, bring up their name to the point that more people would buy Macs.
It’s the same sort of spill-over effect they had in the early days of the Ipod when people thought they worked better with Macs, so some people bought Macs to go with their Ipods.
Good luck to them, I say. It’s interesting to see Apple doing something that could have a majority of Mac users buying a Microsoft OS to run on their systems. I just wonder if this is in some way and admission of their inferiority in the software market.
posted by: genghisbunny · 4/6/06