04/05/2006, 12:30pm, EDT
Wednesday, April 5th
Apple's Boot Camp a 'game changer'?
Apple's stock was up more than five percent in mid-day trading, despite lower price targets announced yesterday by Lehman Bros and S&P, as well as UBS. Despite the relatively small cut in AAPL's price target to $95, UBS maintains a 'buy' rating on Apple stock.
"A key reason why Apple has not gotten more 'switchers' has is likely due to a lack of strong Windows compatibility, but now with Intel processors and chipsets, they are able to offer full compatibility with Windows XP on Mac."
The analyst also said that with support for both EFI and BIOS for booting, Microsoft's Vista operating system, now due in January, will also likely be supported on a Mac.
"We view this as an incremental negative for HP, Dell and other PC makers as Apple will be able to garner additional PC market share." The firm reiterated its 'buy' rating on Apple with a price target of $101.
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Obviously an amazing feature and a huge selling point, but if a big part of the Apple base can't use it, i wonder if there will have to be another hook to buy 10.5
Boot Camp has huge ramifications for the future, but what about the past? Thoughts?
At some point you have to move on otherwise you stand still. The Microsoft OS is on ther verge of standing still for lack of vision and guts to move forward.
Apple is still support the PPC chip and will continue to do so. After about three years you can expect that to disappear just like OS9 support. But really, by that point shouldn't everyone by moving forward?
if anything, it makes people sticking to their PPC Macs more likely to switch to Intel. so in addition to a dead end architecture and faster performance, the Intel Macs offer easy dual boot and driver support for Windows. that helps with the current tradeoffs of not having native apps like photoshop and ancillary support apps like system preference panels, printer drivers, keyboard drivers, plugins, etc.
Major developers will begin to abandon OS X in droves. Tell the Mac users to use the XP/Vista version. Huge savings in development costs. Money talks, plain and simple.
This is the beginning of the end for OS X. That son-of-a-bitch Dvorak got it right after all. As Steve Jobs himself said, "The OS wars are over, Windows won." Crap.
if you're stuck (like me) on an entirely PPC line up and you want/need XP dual boot then you have to upgrade instead of getting free software that isn't going to work all that well anyway.
however if this move can add to the mac user base fast enough you will see the reverse of what you're expecting. there will be more developers coming to OS X. increased market share plus switchers who get embedded in OS X wanting those non-ported apps to be ported over. if apple has a 5-8% market share it's all of a sudden economically viable to support the platform.
Adobe doesn't say their hardware is obsolete, it is APPLE telling them they gave up, since Mactel announced.
Look to Apple Hardware pages not missing a single chance to attack their own sold PowerPC chips with lame ways no Dell 16 year old user troll may have not imagined to this date.
4x faster!!!