Not sure if this is much news but....

[wol]

I had a quick meeting with Apple on friday about various bits and managed to get the following out of them....im sure most of this has been mentioned before though....they wouldnt release huge details because Steve Jobs is going to on 7th August and they dont want it affecting the share price....



- In 10.5 they are going to put in a feature similar to fast user switching but for OS's, so that you can be running X and then switch to XP quickly.

- Soon to be a single 'universal binary' installer for applications so that they work on both mac & windows

- They working very hard on Boot camp at the moment to get the rest of the drivers working, they wouldnt say when for but they did say 'wink wink nudge nudge, theyre working very hard on it'.

- The current boot camp will expire in Sept 2007, i.e. you wont be able to install it after that date but current installs *should* be fine.

- Theyre talking with Microsoft about special licencing for XP with Boot Camp.

- The next gen ARD should be able to control XP in the same way that it does Mac.

Thats it im afraid nothing too exciting

[Cyrealm]

Thanks for the info. I'm glad to see that Apple is still developing Bootcamp for Leopard. From their "Get A Mac" website, they started out referencing Bootcamp on the running of Windows on a Mac but then quickly removed all references of it and started pushing Parallels when it was officially released. It was like they were trying to hide the fact they had released such a thing - yea I know Bootcamp is in beta but to first mention it and then try to hide it from site sound screwy.

[dan_isaacson_net]

I think by "wink wink, nudge nudge" they meant they aren't working on it at all and are going to develop the Parallels solution (I hope this isn't true)... at least it would keep OSx in the market (4.11% in Nov '05). Don't get me wrong, I like OSx but the software that I use (3ds max, Adobe Premiere Pro, Audition) all run on XP

The Parallels solution is pretty rockin' but not quite good enough. The lack of DirectX and dual processor support and the HDD space of having two BLOATED OSs make it impractical for me. Maybe they'll work these things out...

after all an OS is just an OS. It should be simple, clean, and stable. It's the software that runs on the OS that makes the difference.

yeah, I'm running XP on my MacBook Pro
tried OSx 10.4, bootcamp, Parallels, Vista Beta 2, and am now running XP solo

[Cyrealm]

I couldn't agree more. Parallels rocks for most things but it still doesn't beat running XP natively. I run a few PC games that need to run under full hardware accelleration.