I believe the new fix addresses the problems with the new eMacs and Boot Camp.

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It's probably a version that plays nice with the new education iMacs.

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I noticed this line on the page after the download started:

Thank you for your interest in features of the next version of Mac OS X, Leopard.

So it appears that BootCamp will be a part of Leopard, which was to be expected, but nice to see a reference for it on Apple's site.

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ChillyWilly, BootCamp has been touted as being part of Leopard since it first came out.

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Yo Chilly - it has ALWAYS said that on the bootcamp page.

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Even though this is going to be a REALLY tiny, if not completely irrelevant portion of TUAW's readership, it's something I found out last week.

Japanese mac users aren't able to take advantage of the Airport card in the Windows XP partition. Boot Camp doesn't offer support to the Japanese for wireless at this time. I have a friend who's testing the new Boot Camp release to see if this has been resolved, but for now, he has to use an external wireless adapter for his wireless XP.

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Thanks pixelbender. I guess I've never noticed that the last time I downloaded it.

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Anyone running Ubuntu instead of Windows, through lilo tried the boot camp upgrade? I don't imagine it would make a world of difference, but hey.

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There doesn't seem to have been any changes to the drivers. This propably was only a fix for the BootCamp assistant and not any drivers.

Apple propably doesn't develop or modify the drivers themselves (except they iSight driver - if there's ever gonna be one) and the corresponding manufacturer have their own QC cycle. Final drivers might only be released with Leopard.

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which is better: windows or parallels?

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So nobody knows what that update does but is recommending the installation or what? How can everybody proclaim to be an expert when doing such stupid things? I hate that. You guys, writing about Software and Macs should be the ones to tell users that they should know what they are installing! Don't you think that would be a better message?

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I noticed that Apple changed the documentation. In the troubleshooting section on page 16 of the Boot Camp Beta Installation & Setup Guide they added the section: The Windows XP installer is not responding. "If you're using the Mighty Mouse, the Windows XP installer may not respond..."

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I noticed that Apple changed the documentation. In the troubleshooting
section on page 16 of the Boot Camp Beta Installation & Setup Guide
they added the section: The Windows XP installer is not responding.
"If you're using the Mighty Mouse, the Windows XP installer may not
respond..."

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I tried Ubuntu (for those who don't know, a free Linux distro) with Boot Camp on my MacBook Pro once. Too scared to try an install, I just booted off the test CD... Simply put, the new Intel Macs and Ubuntu do not get along very well.

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I had boot camp installed once. When I tried to delete it and unpartition my disc, my system crashed badly. I now use Parallels, which is much better.
That is what I recommend.

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Meh, Ubuntu works on PPC Macs anyhow. I downloaded a copy myself recently...

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Maybe when Schiller rebuffs the idea of virtualization, what the really have in store is fast user switching instead. Switch to a 'user' already booted in Windows.
Is that possible?

It isn't Windows in a window, but it beats rebooting.

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I installed Boot Camp and burned a new Windows drivers CD. Reboot into Windows and the CD shows up as 0 bytes (and I even verified the darned contents on the CD--for the first time since I discovered that I didn't need to!). So I reboot back into OS X, copy the CD to a folder in the Windows partition, and then installed the drivers. No problems other then the odd CD behavior. I still wish Apple wouldn't jerk us around by telling us switchers that we can use Windows too, then crippling the darned thing by not allowing simple things like screen savers, power saving functions, etc. At least when I use WMP and VLC, I can do full screen video for free : )

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This update is probably because of the new Macbook motherboard revision that Apple has been putting in returned Macbooks.

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dvddesign, there are more of us than you might think! I really hope this fixes the wifi thing... time to go try it out.

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