Leopard Boot Camp "fast switching" disappears

Seems like you could still hibernate in Windows and choose to reboot into OS X, then use the similar feature in OS X and reboot back into Windows. It sounds like they have removed the slicker "reboot into Windows/reboot into OS X" menu items, but you are free to hibernate and reboot however you want.

Removing the feature avoids giving ammunition to those who would munge their computers, while having no affect on those who choose to hibernate and switch OS's at their own discretion.

Bah. Bootcamp blows. Paralles is the ticket. Worth every penny. XP has never run faster for me than on my MacBook Pro with Parallels. Can't imagine Bootcamp being around much longer anyway.

I don't really think this is that big of a deal. When you buy a mac you bought it because of the sleek hardware and the extremely stable and valuable software. If you put windows on your mac, it generally isn't going to be for primary functions that you do constantly, and if it is, you'll use paralels. Generally the restart time isn't a huge deal because it isn't a time sensitive job.
Jay
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This feature was one of the things I was most looking forward to along with possible ZFS support. This release blows. I'm sticking with Tiger unless there's some compelling reason for me not to. This Bootcamp improvement was one of them.

I agree that even though it sounds fantastic, the feature should be removed for the trouble that it could cause. As it is, nothing currently prevents you from hibernating windows then rebooting into OS/X currently so long as you know what you're doing.

I don't think there is a way to force OS X to enter its safe sleep mode though. The only hacks I have seen are to enable safe sleep on machines that don't ship with it enabled (such as older powerbooks, mac mini, etc.) Does anyone know if you can force OS X to hibernate?

Perhaps this is a just an attempt by Apple to maintain a healthy relationship with the other software companies out there who have helped Apple push the 'do Windows on a Mac' approach. Does anyone seriously think that Apple can't manage to put this feature in the OS? Of course they can. But they choose not to because they want their customers to use the Mac OS, and be able to use Windows 'when they need to' rather than all the time. Why would Apple lead the charge to bypass their own OS in favor of Windows? Instead, give users a means to do it, but then let other developers handle doing it better with 3rd party products. Think about the gum commercial where the gum lasts so long, that people stop buying gum. Steve Jobs is too smart to let Apple go down that road.

Just get Parallels and a LOT of memory, it is MUCH QUICKER than this feature would be had they left it in. Then, you are OK for all except games. If you don't have time to reboot for a game, well, you don't have time to be playing games...

Just use VMWare Fusion. The beta4 is free, it works really well, it supports VMs with one or two processors, 64-bit computing, and large memory, wider support on other host platforms is available, unlike Parallels the system load is nearly zero when the guest OS itself is idle, and the final version can be purchased right now at half price ($40).

While I had looked forward to this feature as well, it seemed to have one major flaw - filesystem integrity.

When you put a system into safe sleep or hibernation, there is the assumption inherent that when it wakes up, things will be as they were left - nothing in the underlying filesystem should have changed, of Bad Things (tm) will happen. For the most part, this would have been taken care of since the Mac can't write to NTFS and Windows can't write to HFS+.

However, as soon as you factor in things like FAT32 partitions, MacDrive, MacFUSE/NTFS support, all of this goes out the window. Sure, you can say such things are unsupported, but it could easily become a situation where people inadvertently cause MAJOR damage to their systems. And since the damage to the OS would come when you're booted into someone else's OS, there really wouldn't be a thing Apple could do to prevent it.

At least, that's my figuring. Looks like gamers will have to do a full reboot, and everyone else can buy VMWare.

Just use parallels and be done with it. No gripes and new Version 3.0 rocks!