About Adam Knight
Location
Austin, TX
Home page/site
http://www.hopelessgeek.com/
Author Biography
Adam Knight is one of the founders of Mac Geekery and is a geek at heart. Programmer by day, hacker by night, his daily life revolves around the Macintosh platform, which he has been a user and programmer for since the early days of System 7 when his LCII replaced his Apple //c.
In-between tech jobs, he’s managed to learn the basics of any web hacker: PHP, MySQL, Perl, Apache, Linux, *BSD, and the intricacies of ./configure —prefix=~/bombshelter/. Today, codepoet is concentrating on blogging again, writing some software for the Mac by himself (including Notae) and for his company (such as Photonic) and has a few other toys coming out soon. Bug him over AIM or email [link fixed].
I’ve been telling people since the Intel switch was announced that they could be dual-booted, so I was overjoyed when the hack was announced a few weeks back.
I think Apple has been developing this since day one, but they likely sat on it for a couple months, so that someone could actually win the contest to dual-boot. Not to mention, they may have learned a trick or two from the announced solution.
I’ve a dubble feeling about this move. Sure, with Boot Camp you’ll be able to run Windows-software, of which there is not a OSX-counterpart, fast without emulation, but… this might as well be the beginning of the end of the beautiful MacOS!!!
Boot Camp makes it extremely easy now for a software company to decide not to (further) develop a MacOS-version of their product(s) any longer. Why should Adobe spent so much time and money in converting its current Mac-products to Universal Binaries, when it simply can choose for getting rid of its Mac-devision and solely produce Windows-versions of its products? It’s the cheapest option as Mac-users will soon be able to run Windows-software on their Macs.
Btw, according to my opinion, Apple has not been acting like a hardware company for a long time at all. Since the introduction of the Macintosh and its Mac OS, it has mainly focussed on the development/production of Macs, simply because of the popularity of its OS. Remember the popularity of Apple clones in the 90s!? Okay, with some expections like the Apple ][ and the Newton. Only as the iPod got more and more popular, it seems that Apple is, again, acting as hardware company, like the introduction of iTunes for Windows, the Intel move and Boot Camp.
Anyway, MacOS is for me the main reason that I stayed with the Mac: the beautiful look ‘n’ feel of the OS, incl. third-party software. And, not its hardware design and its (almost) problem-free reputation. In other words, the esthetics, the intuitivity, the extreme logic and the well-thought software design into the extreme detail and the user-friendliness of the OS are for me somewhat more important than the box of hardware. I rather work on a PC with MacOS installed, than that I will be doomed to work with Windows on a Mac!
This is not true. If anything its the beginning of apple selling more hardware than they ever have. If you buy a mac, its because you are buying into the whole thing. What they have enabled now, is for macs to be bought with insurance that it will work for business. If it doesn’t pan out, the hardware is still great and will run win XP.
As for increasing adoption, the next component is virtualization. If users are able to run windows software in a virtualized environment nearing full speed of the machine, mac users will be able to sneak more of them into the workspace. As mission critical apps could be run, right along the mac apps. This is a good thing.
where or WHY people get this crazy notion that this is the end of the Mac OS. Are you people completely whacked out?? How can such a revolutionary thing bring the end of the very thing that made it possible. If anything, this is only the BEGINNING of something even huger. No chance in hell this is the end of the Mac OS X; I’d bet vital parts of my anatomy on it too!
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