If you’re launching a blog - particularly if you’re rolling your own - you’ll want to test it across multiple operating systems and browsers. This used to mean you’d have to test across mutliple machines, or use VPC which is rather lame and slow and all kinds of annoying.
But now Macintosh says, “ok hackers. You did it, now the masses can too.” Presenting Boot Camp, now you too can run Windows on any Intel Mac.
Obviously this news is relevant to the business blogging community, but Byron and I are both freaking out over here because we’re huge geeks and it’s just so darn COOL! And the blogosphere is already on fire with the news. Here are a few of the bloggers posting about the news:
And many, many others. But still nothing from Microsoft blogger Robert Scoble. I’ve pinged him, and I’ll let you know his thoughts when I hear back.
Update 11:35 a.m. Scoble had this to say:
They [Apple] certainly are understanding how to use blogs to listen to their customers.
And, yes, I +am+ jealous.
On the other hand there are some at Microsoft who are listening too. Atlas, new developer technology that helps developers use Visual Studio to build ASP.NET applications, came straight off of feedback on blogs.
Does Apple need blogs? Not if it keeps responding to what bloggers want.
And, yes, I’m very tempted to buy a MacBook.
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Arnie McKinnis 04.05.06 at 9:16 am
I don’t know whether to laugh or cry! Is this good news or bad news? I particuarly liked this part from Apple’s BootCamp page: Paraphrashing because I don’t want to get thrown into copyright jail…
“Macs use EFI (and industry standard) for booting, Windows used BIO (an 80’s technology)” EFI and BIOS”
That’s obviously one of the “cool” kids slamming one of the “geeky” kids.
-b- 04.05.06 at 11:21 am
My favorite part is that hackers have been hunched over their laptops cracking the DRM, getting XP to sort of, kinda work, and Apple’s all, “yawn, here it is.”
Teresa Valdez Klein 04.05.06 at 3:54 pm
It’s going to change the world, I tell you!
I want a MacBook now SOOO bad because I just want to run around and be like, “look, I’m running Windows on a Mac. How cool am I?”
DL Byron 04.05.06 at 7:34 pm
And a note on Scoble’s comment — Apple has blogs, just not like MS.
Dan 04.14.06 at 9:51 am
I got really excited at first when I heard about Boot Camp and was making my plans to get a Mac, but then…
You can see my post here
-b- 04.14.06 at 7:00 pm
Dan,
Nice attempt at propagating the price myth (nearly as mythic as the Apple Death Watch), where other sites have proven that wrong so many times I couldn’t list them all here - the most recent is Macworld - with the hardware being similar, the value is in the bundled software, the vastly more secure OSX, the hardware integration, the Apple ecosystem of it all working splendidly. As Macworld said, “the two are often close enough in price that you can make your purchasing decision based on what you want to buy rather than what you think your budget allows. “
You’re happy with your Dell, great! Be sure to download all the patches on the next patch tuesday and wait for 07 for an OS that can do what 0SX is doing now.