24 hours of Leopard: Boot Camp

Features: Boot Camp

What it does: Atten-HUT! No more whinin' about how yer Mac won't run Windows without kickin' it around the block a few times. Leopard now comes with Boot Camp so you can tell your machine whether to come to the party dressed in its Leopard or Windows togs. (You, Soldier, better be wearin' yer camo!)

Stop yer complainin' that yer drivers won't work right, neither. Our fine Admirals up at the Cupertino H-Q got ya covered. The Leopard DVD comes with everythin' you need -- if ya think you've got what it takes to handle it.

Already running Boot Camp Beta? Well, ain't you special? Leopard walks you through the upgrade and gives you the new drivers that ya need.

Who will use it: Soldiers who alternate OS X and Windows Vista or XP. Too much dual-bootin' goodness for ya? Toughen up! Get used to it. This is Leopard, ya big lug. Now drop and give me 20!

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Source: http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/bootcamp.html

Features: Boot CampWhat it does: Atten-HUT! No more whinin' about how yer Mac won't run Windows without kickin' it around the block a few...

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krispy

I think I would have rather they kept Boot Camp off the grid - at least then you know it's not supported and you're on your own.

Adding it to Leopard lead me to believe that if I paid up I would have a more stable version that would be supported if I had trouble. I was happy to because I found the beta to be great and basically run windows XP 98% of the time. So I upgrade to Leopard, follow instructions to the letter, get the black screen of death, go through the many customer support levels to reach a specialist and guess what. NOTHING. No support.

Sorry, if upgrading from beta to leopard made boot camp and year's worth of good apple vibe out the window. We don't really have any troubleshooting advice. Wipe everything out and start over.

December 20 2007 at 4:54 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

gary wirfs

I have a niece, Lisa Hoover. Is this you, LIsa? I am looking at getting Leopard to have the Boot Camp feature. But i see you must have intel core to use Boot Camp?? I have 2005 Imac G5. Is there any way around this, so i can use Boot Camp?

November 07 2007 at 5:36 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Pat

Boot Camp or Parallels? I got my Mac in August of last year (my very first computer outside of work) and love it! I had to install Boot Camp b/c of a Windows based program I use for work. When I upgrade to Leopard, should I use Parallels or continue with Boot Camp?

November 03 2007 at 10:40 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

seth feris

@19: BOB! i'm wondering the same thing, someone please tell me this is now a possibility and if so how to do it...

October 28 2007 at 8:48 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Bob S.

My understanding is that -- hang on, this is relevant -- Disk Utility can now resize partitions on the fly. Can it or Boot Camp Assistant now resize the Windows partition? Through the beta, Apple's instructions were to back everything up; wipe the Windows partition; create a new, larger one; and restore everything. Which isn't a very Apple way to do things.

October 26 2007 at 2:33 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Mike

Why doesn't Apple ship MacDrive software with Leopard. It is nice having Windows on the same box, but only MacDrive makes it useful.

October 26 2007 at 10:03 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Luigi193

I use Parallels to run one thing. Its a free study program... its called Teach 2000
I freaking love it!!!!! The ONLY reason I have XP!!!

October 26 2007 at 9:07 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Chris G

#5 Mike...

Many of us have programs that we have to run for work and rather then be seen with a Dell or HP computer its easier and cheaper to run boot camp whenever we need to get things done for work that are not mac friendly

October 26 2007 at 8:06 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Tom Fox

My question is, can you load windows/bootcamp from an external drive? My internal HD on my Macbook Pro is prime real estate.

October 26 2007 at 7:33 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Quine

Every OS has its redeeming qualities, and with a Mac you get the best of both worlds:

OS X: getting things accomplished, making things, connecting with people, inventing things, learning things, nearly everything else.

Windows: Makes you glad you have OS X on the computer. Runs Portal.

Everything has its strong points!

October 26 2007 at 4:32 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply