Apple to Charge for Boot Camp?

An anonymous reader writes "According to a report MacScoop has obtained, Apple will charge current users of Mac OS X Tiger for the final version of Boot Camp that will be released at the same time as Mac OS X Leopard, this Spring."

GAAP made them do it.

[yourpusher]

Damn accountants.

Dual Booting?

[jaymzru]

Inconsequential. Dual booting is *so* 2005.
Nobody even turns off their macs anymore, much less boots into a different OS.

Re:Not til they fix it...

[Anonymous Coward]

Jeez, why so uptight? Is the neck opening on your black turtleneck sweater a couple of sizes too small?

Re:Define Vista then...

[ColdWetDog]

Please, can someone explain why it is so damn hard for some people to look past the version numbers and just check out what's new and improved in OS X releases??

'Cuz, you see, on Windows, it's easier: Every new version is a real new version. A whole number, not some wimpy little decimated digit to the RIGHT of the decimal point. That's why Windows is always TEN TIMES better than the Mac. You don't see us Windows users trying to boot OS X on our computers do you? You guys are just lusers.

Re:Define Vista then...

[shawnce]

I have an idea... Apple could port those APIs to a prior version of the operating system... yeah they would take the older version of the operating system and add all these new APIs to it, burn it to a CD/DVD, put it in a box and make it available to customers. That sounds like a plan.

Re:No way.

[Old Thrashbarg]

Exactly. Which is why they will be able to buy the Tiger version for $29. It's quite simple, try to follow.

The weird and wonderful world of the machead

[Budenny]

"This is great. It will encourage more people to move to Leopard at a faster rate.
More revenue for Apple. More profits for Apple. More Macs for us to buy. Yea!"

This is a comment on the site. Most illuminating, people who do not know the difference between their own interests and that of other people.

Hardly know where to begin....

Re:Looks like I'll stay with Tiger then

[_Pablo]

Windows is *significantly* cheaper than OSX.

A street-corner hooker is significantly cheaper than a high-class escort.

Re:Looks like I'll stay with Tiger then

[ecuador_gr]

But both will give you syphilis if you don't wear a condom...

Hmm, mod me insightful if you find a deep meaningful analogy to the OS debate, hidden in the above. I personally could not, but of course I posted anyway.

Re:Looks like I'll stay with Tiger then

[antonyb]

You think thats early? Back in '89 I was resizing partitions by manually dragging electrons across the surface of the disk with a tunneling electron scanning microscope and a really small pair of tweezers.
ant.