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Where are Apple's high-end gaming Macs?

Yesterday I blogged about my thoughts on the comparative price of Macs versus PCs and came to the conclusion that while you can pick up a Vista PC for fewer dollars than a Mac, that didn't automatically mean that Macs were dearer than PCs, just that Apple doesn't cater for...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., Boot Camp, Games, Desktops, Personal Technology, Hardware, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2008-04-10

The best of both worlds (or, at least, both worlds)

In my ongoing effort to design a testbed for my teachers to examine OS X, Windows Vista, and Ubuntu before I start spending money in July, I fired up Boot Camp on my MacBook.  Boot Camp is a utility built into OS X much like the GNU Partition Editor gparted...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Hardware, Partition, Teacher, Boot Camp, Apple Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows XP, Software, Apple Mac OS, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-02-21

MCITP: Enterprise Administrator Upgrade Boot Camp

View Available Dates and LocationsThis Boot Camp will prepare qualified candidates to earn the MCITP: Enterprise Administrator certification for Server 2008. Qualified candidates include those who have earned MCITP: Server Administrator certification, Server 2003 MCSE certification, or both the MCTS: Windows Server 2008 Network Infrastructure Configuration...

Tags: Certification, Administrator, Microsoft Windows Server, Exam, MCITP, Boot Camp, TS, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Windows, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware

Training 2008-01-01

MCITP: Server Administrator Boot Camp

View Available Dates and LocationsThis Boot Camp will prepare qualified Microsoft professionals to earn the Microsoft Certified IT Professional MCITP: Server Administrator certification for Windows Server 2008. In this intensive test-preparation program where the goal is certification, you will practice sample questions and take simulated exams using Transcender, the industry-leading...

Tags: Server Administrator, Washington, Microsoft Windows Server, Exam, MCITP, Boot Camp, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Windows, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware

Training 2008-01-01

Will Boot Camp drive Leopard sales

Gregg Keizer over on Computerworld posted an warning for Boot Camp users: The news was no secret: Apple had spelled it out on the Boot Camp download page and in the EULA end user license agreement included with the beta and posted on the Apple site. "The term of...

Tags: Apple Inc., Sales, Boot Camp, Virtualization, Tools & Techniques, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Management, Storage, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2007-10-02

"Sleep Camp" nixed, you still have to reboot

There was some pretty exciting news that came out of WWDC yesterday about Boot Camp, Apple's Windows/Mac dual boot architecture for Intel-based machines. According to an early version of Apple's updated Boot Camp page the company changed the technology dramatically for the upcoming release of Mac OS 10.5/Leopard.Rather than having...

Tags: WWDC, Windows, Software, Intel, Boot Camp

Blog posts 2007-06-13

Apple mulling charging for Boot Camp

Apples Boot Camp software which allows you to boot into a full-blown Windows environment on a partition may soon be going pay-for-play. The software which has been in beta testing since its launch on 5 April, 2006 is currently hovering at version 1.1.2b.MacScoop brings word that Apple will most likely...

Tags: Software, Boot Camp

Blog posts 2007-01-22

Apple revs Boot Camp to 1.0.2 beta 1

Apple has updated Boot Camp specifically Boot Camp Assistant, their disruptive software that allows Intel Macs to run Windows natively, to version 1.0.2 beta 1. Remember that this is beta software and that Apple is not offering support. If you must live on the bleeding edge and already have BC...

Tags: Apple Computer Inc., Boot Camp, Boot Camp Assistant

Blog posts 2006-07-12

Boot Camp, virtualization, Net neutrality, SAP and more...

This week on The Dan & David Show, we discuss all the fuss about running Windows on a Mac (David calls Boot Camp and the notion that it's a big win for Apple a joke), LinuxWorld all about virtualization, Net neutrality (telcos checkmate the 'open' Internet), my wanderings at Software...

Tags: Boot Camp, podcast

Blog posts 2006-04-07

Windows on Macs? Chill folks. It's much ado about nothing

I don't know about you, but I'm totally nonplussed when it comes to the enthusiasm that Apple's Boot Camp is being met with. Gartner has these graphs that show how, in something called a 5-phase hype-cycle, new technologies are originally meant with ill-founded euphoria followed by a trough of...

Tags: Apple Computer Inc., Apple Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows

Blog posts 2006-04-07

Virtualize, don't dual boot

There's been plenty of hype about Apple's dual boot option for Windows Macs, Boot Camp but there's another option that is worthy of consideration.In my post about Boot Camp yesterday I mentioned that although it's a great option for people that need a full Windows workstation, I prefer something like...

Tags: Parallels, Apple Mac OS, Apple Macintosh

Blog posts 2006-04-07

Windows on the Mac

Apple releases software to run XPNow out is Boot Camp, software to enable Windows XP to run on anyIntel-powered Apple. CNET Editor Matthew Elliott takes a look at thebeta version of Boot Camp, which will be included in Mac OS X 10.5.

Tags: Boot Camp

Videos 2006-04-05

Apple Boot Camp (beta)

Editor's note: We have updated this preview with more-comprehensive benchmark results. (4/7/06)Apple released Boot Camp today, a free download that lets you run Windows on an Intel-based Mac. The 83MB download is available as beta software, and Boot Camp will be included in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard later this...

Tags: Desktops, Operating systems, Apple Computer Inc., Boot Camp, Microsoft Windows, Apple Macintosh, Apple iMac, Apple Mac OS, operating system

Product reviews 2006-04-05

Apple endorses Windows XP booting with "Boot Camp"

Apple has released a public beta of a product they're calling Boot Camp that will let you boot an Intel-based Mac into Windows XP. According to the public beta Web site "Boot Camp lets you install Windows XP without moving your Mac data, though you will need to bring your...

Tags: Boot Camp, Microsoft Windows

Blog posts 2006-04-05

Additional Resources

Making Apple's Magic Mouse and Wireless Keyboard work in Windows

A recent Apple Support Note says that "certain features" on the new Magic Mouse and the Apple Wireless keyboard are having trouble in Windows on Boot Camp. A fix was posted for downloading late last week. by David Morgenstern

Tags: Mouse, Wireless Keyboard, Apple Inc., Wireless, Keyboards, Microsoft Windows, Hardware, Peripherals, Operating Systems, Software, David Morgenstern

Blog posts 2009-11-01

Apple ad swings at Windows 7: 'Trust me, this time it's going to be different'

Hilarious! Apple is getting quite bold these days, I think they smell bloodNT.Just like Snow Leopard was supposed to fix all that was wrong with LeopardBut it didn't. :(Poor Apple, that sound you hear of glass shattering is not the sound of Windows, it is the glass house in which...

Tags: Operating systems, Investment, advertisement, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Win7, Apple Inc., Apple Mac OS X

Discussion threads 2009-10-22

More Apple teardowns: Fall 2009 iMac & Magic Mouse

You can watch BluRay movies via the Display Port IN. [nt][nt]Windows to the rescue!![i]Of course, until Apple releases software support, you?ll still have to boot into Windows to play movies.[/i]LOL, OS X sucks. :)LOLWhat's sad is that OS X is the best that Apple could steal!Is that the best you...

Tags: Operating systems, Desktops, mouse, Apple Inc., Pagan, Apple Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-10-22

TechGuard keeps spam and botnets at bay with one-click, enterprise-level security for SMBs, SOHOs

One of the most difficult things for a small or medium business to do is set up a security scheme that's effective, affordable and intelligible to the average employee. Chesterfield, Mo. and Baltimore, Md.-based TechGuard is attempting to address that problem by bringing its enterprise and government-level...

Tags: Security, Firewall, Network, SOHO, Small And Medium Business, TechGuard, SM, Smb/Sme, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-10-13

News to know: Windows 7; IBM; Sony; Apple

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Ed Bott: Measuring Windows 7 performance Dancho Danchev: Click fraud facilitating Bahama botnet steals ad revenue from Google ...

Tags: Sony Corp., Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Sony Vaio, Apple Inc., Laptop Computer, IBM Corp., Eaton, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Desktops, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware

Blog posts 2009-10-09

Tips for support technicians booting Windows on Macs with Boot Camp

2 questions1. How do I completely get rid of OS X on my Mac? It is taking up valuable disk space. Since Windows 7 supports EFI based motherboards, there shouldn't be any need for any Apple shims unless Apple has implemented their EFI in a non standard way (gee, and...

Tags: Desktops, Operating systems, OSX, BootCamp, EFI, disc, BIOS, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-10-08