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Apple stops supporting Boot Camp
FRUIT THEMED TOYMAKER Apple has suddenly announced that machines leaving its hallowed factories with Mac OS X Server cannot run Boot Camp.
The statement, which apparently affects all Xservers, Mac Pros and Mac Minis, was made yesterday and quietly published on its support site. Boot Camp is the software that Apple provides for users who miss their Microsoft Windows PC and want to run The Vole's operating system.
Since Apple ditched the PowerPC architecture for Intel chips, it has made a big deal about Boot Camp, all but confirming that Macs are little more than standard PCs with shiny cases. However this announcement tends to suggest that machines that leave Apple's shops with the server version of Mac OS X installed are in fact different from those shipping with the standard OS X client operating system.
Not that many fanbois would question any decision, however baseless, made by their Dear Leader, but the lack of explanation leads those not initiated into Steve Jobs' cult to wonder what Apple does to stop this. It could mean that Apple includes some software in the EFI to stop Boot Camp from operating.
Then there's the question of why would you want to run Mac OS X Server on a Mac Mini. Apple is flogging the device as some sort of designer network attached storage box with 1Tb of capacity for a laughable £929. Those who seriously consider buying such a machine have far greater concerns than figuring out how to run Microsoft's Windows operating system.
For hours we postulated why such a restriction exists. Perhaps the angels who assemble Macs with OS X Server installed are not vaccinated against contact with The Vole's operating system.
For a moment we considered shelling out three grand to buy a Mac Pro to test Apple's latest unjustifiable restriction but then we realised that it amounts to an awful lot of beer tokens. Also, why bother when there is an army of Apple fanbois who are willing to do it for you? µ
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For hours we postulated why such a restriction exists.
And then the pub closed? Good thing you didn't spend three grand because the answer is in the Apple KB item that you linked. It says that Bootcamp is not included with machines that ship with OSX Server pre-installed, not that you can't run it on those machines. To do so you'd have to uninstall OSX Server, install standard, non-server OSX and then install Boot Camp which will work. Of course, no one who buys the server version will actually do this but there is always some jerk in litigation-bound America who will threated to sue unless every single last detail is spelt out, hence the need for an otherwise unnecessary KB item from Apple.
Apple has not dropped Bootcamp from any Macintosh system that can actually use it.
This does not include Mac Servers...daa.
My first and last time visiting this website that openly allows misguided PC weenies to make misleading comments.
Wow talk about "idiots R us"
A lot of firms / managers get iMacs , because to they look good on their desks.
Behind the screen, they have been running windows on bootcamp for years.I see this everywhere I go.There are an awful lot of users that have a mac , but never looked at OSX. All this will do is reduce sales for apple.I'm beginning to think they don't care about selling computers any more.
Put Windows on shoddy apple hardware?!!
It'll either burst into flames or stop working when you hold it wrong.
Once again another ill researched post concerning Apple from The Inq. Not all Mac Pros and certainly not all Mac Minis ship from the factory with OSX Server installed. You can get it as an option on the Mac Pro and they make a server variant of the Mini that can ship with it installed. Why anyone would want to use the latter is anyone's guess. The average design house buying a Mac Pro for graphics or video work isn't going to boot into Windows anyway.
hey nauj, fun you say "you dont care about reading his hate" but you did read it all and take the time to post, shittard.
Inq is very right and you should just move to read appleinsider or other buttkissing blogs that jobtards like you read
man, the author of this text really hates Apple, I believe if he has some problems with S. Jobs he should shut his mouth off, we dont care about reading his hate.
Reading this was sooo annoying.
"…However this announcement tends to suggest that machines that leave Apple's shops with the server version of Mac OS X installed are in fact different from those shipping with the standard OS X client operating system.
Not that many fanbois would question any decision, however baseless, made by their Dear Leader…"
Er… no, it doesn't suggest that at all, never did.
What it suggests is that one wouldn't Boot Camp a Mac server, as that would be a waste of money. One would buy a Wintel or Lintel one, instead.
Does anyone know if the Mac OS X Server installer DVD ever included Boot Camp and its set of device drivers?
Amen to OpenGL, I miss that little boy. DirectX is for lazy developers, screw that.
But we're far from having current-gen games running on Mac or Linux. That's not even on the horizon. Dream on. Maybe you get some lousy Flash or Java -based games and that's all (as anything else built on Flash or Java).
When running a Server OS whether Apple or Microsoft, it is usually assumed that you are wanting a platform that is going to be running all the time and not rebooting. Why would anyone want to dual boot a server? If you want to dual boot get a Mac with a non server OS and get over it.
According to Apple they are getting to release a new Bootcamp that will officially support Windows 7 so I don't know where The Inquirer got this news.
I still have a self built PC to play my games on. I was planning on waiting till the iMac supported USB 3.0 and then I was going to buy a new high end 27" iMac, put a external drive on it and Bootcamp Windows on the external for may games.
But STEAM is now on Mac so the MS game stranglehold is fading and soon there should be no desire to have the Swiss Cheese MS OS at all. The PS3 will also supplement my gaming desires. Yes free from MS and their piece of crap proprietary Direct X, long Live OS X and Ubuntu (Linux) with Open GL.
Probably nobody was buying it, so why bother supporting it. If one must run windoze, Parallels works like a charm.
The sooner alleged Mac lovers can stop running PC software, the sooner they'll realize that living in Jobs' walled-off fantasy city isn't all it's cracked up to be.
Most of us can't afford the 3 grand for a computer. You could have a give-a-way after your benchmarking and conclusion.
Most of us can't afford the 3 grand for a computer. You could have a give-a-way after your benchmarking and conclusion.