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May 04, 2006
Macs vs. PCs: Round n!
Authored by Dan Moren at 10:05 AM
Subcategory | Intel Macs
Why must we fight? Can't we all just get along? Not if CNet has anything to say about it. The website that pitted the Mac mini vs. Windows Media Center is back in the strife business, this time facing off...
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April 30, 2006
Parallels Workstation beta6 out
Authored by Aaron Freedman at 10:05 AM
Subcategory | XP on Mac
The latest beta version of Parallels Workstation is out, featuring USB fixes, Shared Folder fixes, and some network improvements. It also introduces an image tool and an autoupdate feature. This, plus more improvements and bug fixes, makes the latest...
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April 26, 2006
Parallels Workstation updated with USB support and more
Authored by Aaron Freedman at 10:05 AM
Subcategory | XP on Mac
Parallels Workstation has just been upgraded to Beta5, featuring lots of new improvements and bug fixes. Probably the most important feature of Beta5 is support for USB devices, which is obviously a huge deal. Beta5 also uses something called...
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Boot Camp mandatory for Army on the Mac
Authored by Dan Moren at 10:05 AM
Subcategory | Games
Listen up, maggots. If you want to be a soldier, you can't be using some pansy, candy-colored computer, you hear me? No operating systems with glowing blue buttons or stop-light colored controls in the army, got it? And absolutely none—that's...
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April 24, 2006
Parallels Workstation vs. Boot Camp comparison chart
Authored by Aaron Freedman at 10:05 AM
Subcategory | XP on Mac
If one wishes to turn to the dark side by installing Windows on their Intel Mac, there are two ways to go about it, by using either Apple's Boot Camp or Parallels Workstation. Each way has its advantages and...
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April 23, 2006
Boot Camp once again, podcast style
Authored by Scott Silverman at 10:05 AM
Subcategory | XP on Mac
You remember that article on Macworld which tore apart USA Today writer Andrew Kantor's article Boot Camp will start exodus to Windows? Well, if you remember correctly it was written by Macworld's editorial director, Jason Snell. Now following that...
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April 22, 2006
How to survive Boot Camp
Authored by Aaron Freedman at 10:05 AM
Subcategory | XP on Mac
Boot Camp can be a tough place. You're in all new surroundings, you can't bring any of your old stuff, and there's viruses crawling around everywhere. That's why VersionTracker created the Boot Camp Resource Center. The Resource Center has...
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Cringely says Leopard will run Windows apps natively
Authored by Aaron Freedman at 10:05 AM
Subcategory | XP on Mac
People right now are going crazy over Boot Camp and Parallels Workstation being able to run Windows on the Intel Macs. But what if there was something even better, a way to run the vast array of Windows programs...
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April 20, 2006
Boot Camp Comic Round-Up
Authored by Dan Moren at 10:05 AM
Subcategory | XP on Mac
Serendipity strikes. Like lightning. Originally, I'd planned to merely mention this Boot Camp post (below the scroll) by Penny Arcade purveyor Mike "Gabe" Krahulik. We'd previously reported that he and partner-in-crime Jerry "Tycho" Holkins, both gamers of the hardcore variety...
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April 18, 2006
Words won't stop coming out of John Dvorak's mouth
Authored by Dan Moren at 10:05 AM
Subcategory | Software
Tech pundit and blowhard par excellence John Dvorak says dark times are a'coming for OS X:Thus a cloud is rising over OS X and its future unless Apple makes its boldest move ever: turning OS X into an open-source project....
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April 16, 2006
Everything you wanted to know about Boot Camp, but were afraid to ask
Authored by Dan Moren at 10:05 AM
Subcategory | XP on Mac
Dynamic duo Jason "The Editor" Snell and Rob "Macho Man" Griffiths answer all your questions about Boot Camp over at Macworld. All of them. Every single one. Even the ones you haven't thought of yet. Yep, that one too. And...
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April 15, 2006
OS X, XP, and Linux can all just get along
Authored by Dan Moren at 10:05 AM
Subcategory | Geekery
Dual booting is for wimps. You want hardcore, you've got to go for the gold: triple booting. That's right: OS X, Windows XP, and Linux all on one computer—it's like the Holy Grail of computing, only, you know, less cup-like....
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April 14, 2006
Boot Camp to Convert Mac Users to Windows? No way.
Authored by Cyrus Farivar at 10:05 AM
Subcategory | XP on Mac
Macworld.com News Editor Jim Dalrymple goes toe-to-toe with USA Today's Andrew Kantor. Dalrymple's article says that Forrester research says that Apple could entice many Windows users to the MacOS: “Microsoft faces big consumer defection risk: One measure of consumers’...
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April 13, 2006
The beta mentality
Authored by Derik DeLong at 10:05 AM
Subcategory | XP on Mac
While most people are raving about Boot Camp and the ease with which one can create a Windows partition and dual boot, Apple has been quite clear that the software is beta. That means there are bugs. Sometimes serious...
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Computerworld on installing XP to an Intel Mac
Authored by Cyrus Farivar at 10:05 AM
Subcategory | XP on Mac
From our sister publication Computerworld (and yes, Macworld has several sister publications -- they're all linked at the bottom of this page) comes this piece from Scott Finnie, Computerworld's editorial director: The first thing you'll notice about running Windows...
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April 12, 2006
Better on Windows: oxymoron or secret truth?
Authored by Dan Moren at 10:05 AM
Subcategory | XP on Mac
You hear that? It's the sound of the gauntlet being thrown down. Or a line being drawn in the sand. Or possibly even some French guy slapping you in the face with a glove. A universal concept that transcends the...
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From the Lab: XP-on-Mac benchmarks
Authored by Cyrus Farivar at 10:05 AM
Subcategory | XP on Mac
Remember when I told you that three out of these four Macs were running Windows? They weren't just sitting around, jealous of the good looks of MacOS. Our very own lab director, James Galbraith, ran the PC World benchmarks...
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April 11, 2006
It takes bunk to know bunk
Authored by Dan Moren at 10:05 AM
Subcategory | XP on Mac
Another day, another silly editorial about what Apple isn't doing/should be doing/is totally missing an opportunity for, vis-a-vis Boot Camp. This time, it's CNet's Asher Moses (whose smiling tanned physique is pictured here) chiming in with his two cents, in...
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April 10, 2006
Boot Camp sells hardware
Authored by Derik DeLong at 10:05 AM
Subcategory | XP on Mac
John Gruber is at it again. This time, he’s taking down the silly misconceptions about what Apple is trying to accomplish with Boot Camp. It all comes down to hardware. Apple has always been a hardware developer first, strategically...
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