Holy crap! It only took 7 hours for you to post this after i sent it from the "Contact Us" form!

YAY!!

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So is it just for today or until the 15th of July? The post title and what it says in the post itself contradict eachother.

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it should read JULY 15th. You have a month.

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i find that happens a lot on this blog. tons of errors until the readers/commentors catch them, essentially proof-reading for the writers. mark didn't even get credit either.

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Well, when's Leopard due to be released? I'm guessing this will be built into the next version of OSX, especially with the new Mac ads proclaiming that you can install Windows on a Mac (with buggy bootcamp). I for one will be waiting until 10.5 before making this purchase.

Oh, and the rest of you, stop your whining. Like #1 was the only person in the world that could have sent this in or seen this on their site? Please.

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Sorry about the edits guys. I've been running around all day looking for a new house and preparing for a wedding in two weeks. I don't know if I'd go so far as to say we have 'tons of errors,' but until you guys want computers doing the blogging themselves, we'll keep trying to make sure our posts are squeaky clean.

Also, we sincerely do appreciate the tips guys, honestly. In this particular case, I personally found out about this at midnight last night, as I was passed a tip from another party, and I received my own email from Parallels about the release. We're not out to ignore y'all or scam you out of credit, promise. Just to make good though, I'll toss Mark some credit just to show y'all some good faith. Cool?

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Oooooo. Doesn't Mark feel guilty now? ;)

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Relax guys- this is a fan blog. It's not like he's paid to do this- any money he gets goes to server fees.

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Brett... care to elaborate on what is so buggy about BootCamp? I've yet to experience a single issue, nor have I read about one.

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I´ll wait for OS X Leopard unless vista becomes as stable on paralleles as it is on Boot Camp

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There is no graphics card emulation, when that happens this product will be great.

Neal Saferstein

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Oh man... I feel HORRIBLE!
Well, not really, but thanks for the love anyways.

I know what it's like getting ready for a wedding (I got married last year) but certainly there's more than 1 or 2 people behind the scenes here that can monitor tips and proofread posts, right?

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Sorry, I don't buy the line that there was big customer demand for the "server compressor". That sounds like an invented reason to bump up the price beyond the (relatively affordable) $49 to the much more flabby $79.

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Also, people who say Boot Camp is "buggy" fundamentally misunderstand what it is. It is not some sort of software sitting in the background while Windows runs; it's a firmware implementation of Intel's EFI Compatibility Support Module that emulates BIOS. The actual Bootcamp software that installs on your Mac does little more than:
- allow you to repartition the disk
- initiates the Windows XP SP2 installer
- helps you burn a driver CD for Windows
- allows you to see Windows as a boot drive in the startup disk preference pane.

But it's not sitting there in the background magically translating Windows or anything like that. A Mac is now, after all, just a PC with nice casing. Sure, its EFI BIOS is different to other PCs, but all Apple has done is add in the compatibility layer Intel created that Apple intentionally omitted originally.

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The only bug in BootCamp is Windows.

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