Boot Camp For Suckers?

DigitalDame2 writes "PC Magazine's Editor-in-Chief says the whole Mac/Windows dual-boot thing is really nothing to get excited about. He writes that Boot Camp is really just a plan to get Windows users to convert to OS X." From the article: "Once you've laid out a few kilobucks on your BC system and been frustrated a few times with Windows limitations, what are you going to do? Jobs's bet: You'll start spending more and more time in OS X, until you--too--become one of the pod people. It's sad to see so many of my compatriots being turned into lemmings. Perhaps they'll wake up and smell the Apple pie in the sky--and realize they've been taken for a ride. But I doubt it."

Mom and Apple Pie

[yancey]

I'd rather have Apple pie than Windows pie. Ewww.. gross!

Let me get this straight

[Tx]

A feature to encourage people to buy a Mac is really a cunning plan to get them to switch to Mac? Wow, he must be a genius to have figured that one out...

Suckers? Yesss!

[MobyDisk]

Did anyone else read the headline "Boot Camp For Suckers?" and imagine that this was a camp run by Dogbert? I was ready to sign-up some coworkers.

Truly sad!

[Jerry Coffin]

...Boot Camp is really just a plan to get Windows users to convert to OS X.

You sir, have a mediocre grasp of the blindingly obvious!

I'm tempted to go into a lot more detail, but it would just weaken the message...

Jim Louderback

[jayhawk88]

Making John Dvorak look sane and reasonable since 1988.

Windows = MacMame

[Yergle143]

I run two curious little game emulators. The first is called Mame and it permits me run a bunch of antique games once written for public coin-fed consoles. The second is called Boot camp and it permits me to run games on a kooky antique dollar-fed operating system. 537

Re:Mom and Apple Pie

[Anonymous Coward]

What about your mom's pie?

Re:Message for Captain Obvious

[Anonymous Coward]

Uh oh, this isn't going to sit well with the Apple faithful. My advice: turn down all offers of grape Kool-Aid for the next couple of computer news cycles.

Re:If Jobs really wanted people to switch...

[Anonymous Coward]

Why would Steve care what switches you used with your Media Access Controller?

Re:Consider the source: Louderbeck

[Daedala]

Well... I'm not British, but I've been declared an Honorary Brit for my grasp of irony. I'm also a professional editor and writer.

And this was just really poorly done. He has no control of tone at all. The "effete" crack in particular was icky (that's the technical term). Only an editor-in-chief could have published it, because anyone else would have been edited by someone who wasn't quite so in love with the thing. Just because it was intended to be satire, doesn't mean it was. [wikipedia.org]

This is why most Americans are not allowed to have Sarcasm Licenses.

Re:So what you're telling me is...

[AKAImBatman]

How did Jim Louderback get the Editor-in-Chief position, anyway?

I don't understand your surprise. This is the same magazine that gainfully employs John C. Dvorak [pcmag.com]! =)

Re:Jealousy is a terrible thing. In the meantime..

[Moofie]

And the Dells come with a free forklift to carry them around! They're super-awesome!

Re:Message for Captain Obvious

[paanta]

Step 1: Write about how Mac users are lemmings and get it posted to Slashdot Step 2: ????? Step 3: Profit!

Re:Praising with Faint D@mns ...

[Threepio]

But the majority of the hardware most people plug into a Mac is USB or Firewire... which is usually Mac Compatible. Kinda mootificates your argument a bit.

Re:Message for Captain Obvious

[KDan]

The fact that Macs can now run windows is one of the main reasons that I'm considering buying a Mac. Oh no! I've been had...?

Dear me, I better get back onto my Mac-lemming-hating high-horse before it's too late!...

Daniel

Re:Word of the Day: Switcher

[colinrichardday]

real Mac user: someone true to who they are, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules and they have no respect for the status quo. The ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world.

So Stallman is a Mac user?

Re:Message for Captain Obvious

[cortana]

Most Windows users actually like their OS and would not want to switch.

Stockholm Syndome, perhaps?

Re:Message for Captain Obvious

[Brett Buck]

Of course, getting some to dump Windoze and use MacOS *IS* a public service...

Re:Message for Captain Obvious

[squidfood]

I use windows and have used macs, I prefer windows...

I've hated macs since I saw that little smiley face come up in 1984.

Then, I didn't want to pry my fingers away from my Apple II. Now, it's from windows. I never minded windows or Xwindows, because I always got the feeling they were kludges built on top of that (DOS | *nix) command prompt. That command prompt was my friend. It was my comfort food. It was behind everything when I needed it. With cygwin, it's even useable in Microsoft.

Now my wife bought OS X. I tried it. I hoped for the best ("smooth interface and the *nix command prompt. yay."). But you know, it feels like the command prompt is the kludge, and the apps are so slick as to be invulnerable to tinkering, that little smiling computer still mocks me.

I hate macs.

Re:Message for Captain Obvious

[stunt_penguin]

A funny post, but you've got a serious point. How the fuck did this article get itself posted to /. in the first place. Is someone on crack?

This is the worst written drivel I've ever had the displeasure of reading through /. ........... hang on a minute i'm going to the toilet to take a dump. I'll be back in 10 minutes with a piece of paper that makes more sense than this shit. I'll make the front page no problem.

Re:Message for Captain Obvious

[dloose]

For everyone who thinks the parent is too long, here's the executive summary: "I've never used a Mac. Ever."

Re:THANK YOU!

[ultranova]

Not this damn no games for the mac rant. WoW and Quake 4 don't count as games? I'm not going to bother with the full list.

You already did.

Sorry, couldn't resist ;). Mod me troll, I deserve it...