macrumors.com — No restarting to use Bootcamp. Just select "Switch to Windows" from OS X, and your machine goes to sleep. Wake it up and your in Windows. You can do the same thing once in Windows to switch back to mac. VERY VERY NICE feature, no reason to use virtualization for me at least.
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Closed AccountJun 13, 2007
@ruddy - she won't have time for that - she'll be too busy trying to get rid of some Trojan that appears every time she boots up, along with a mysterious missing DLL error that you have to press abort to get rid of, but it seems to work anyway.
tizz66Jun 13, 2007
There's a place for both technologies. I love Parallels with Coherence, it works great, but it's never going to be fast enough to something intensive, like gaming, or 3D work etc. That's where BootCamp comes in handy.
bigsteveJun 13, 2007
That's exactly what it means. You have a Windows partition [FAT32 / NTFS] and an OS X partition [HFS+]. While the two OS families can read each other's partitions [Windows can read HFS+ with 3rd party software] they couldn't live in each other's file system. Virtualization on the other hand creates the guest OS's file system in a large file.Boot camp has existed in public beta for over a year now; anyone who wasn't computer-incompetent would know that.
supaklawJun 13, 2007
Buried. Sweet concept though... pretty much gets rid of the whole Parallels/Cider issues. Keep it in mind Apple?
gigaJun 14, 2007
"Anybody that is not computer-incompetent should know such a feature requires either total file system separation or in case the file system is to be 'shared' (which would be the only case that makes sense) you will need VERY special file system drivers in BOTH (or all if you also want Linux) operating systems!"Oh, really? Most of my friends wouldn't know that hibernating an OS in a dual boot environment would cause file system corruption if the data on the hard drive changed while the OS was hibernated, but that doesn't mean they are incompetent. People on Digg assume too much of the average user.
gigaJun 14, 2007
I don't believe you. WTF is a "real" Mac user anyway? One who can't capitalise properly or use decent sentence structure?
streakJun 17, 2007
Nixed!The feature will reappear, if Apple can negotiate a deal with Microsoft to bundle Windows as an extra-cost, build-to-order option on Macs. Consumers will save $$ on individual licenses, and Apple will make $$$.