{"id":3757,"date":"2006-04-06T14:09:44","date_gmt":"2006-04-06T21:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/04\/06\/boot-camp\/"},"modified":"2019-12-20T09:38:21","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T17:38:21","slug":"boot-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/04\/06\/boot-camp\/","title":{"rendered":"Boot Camp"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:6683,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.macintouch.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20250604080337\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.macintouch.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-09 08:49:06&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-13 03:06:41&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-29 06:47:41&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403}],&quot;broken&quot;:true,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-29 06:47:41&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:6684,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.macfixit.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20090318133557\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.macfixit.com:80\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-09 08:49:11&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-29 06:47:38&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-29 06:47:38&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:6685,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.apple.com\\\/macosx\\\/bootcamp&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20150620164028\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.apple.com\\\/macosx\\\/bootcamp&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-09 08:49:12&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-29 06:47:37&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-29 06:47:37&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:6686,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.pcworld.com\\\/news\\\/article\\\/0,aid,125325,00.asp#&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.pcworld.com\\\/news\\\/article\\\/0,aid,125325,00.asp&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:6221,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/click.linksynergy.com\\\/fs-bin\\\/click?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941.10000170&amp;type=4&amp;subid=0&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>As part of an effort to streamline things while I&#8217;m in school, I&#8217;ve been working here and there on paring down the number of newsfeeds I subscribe to. One of the steps I took a couple weeks ago was removing the majority of my mac-specific site feeds (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.macintouch.com\/\" title=\"Macintouch\">Macintouch<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macfixit.com\/\" title=\"MacFixIt\">MacFixit<\/a>, and various others), figuring that if any big news broke, chances are good that I&#8217;d hear about it from plenty of other places.<\/p>\n<p>Boy was I right on <em>that<\/em> assumption. I can&#8217;t count the number of different places I&#8217;ve seen mention <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/macosx\/bootcamp\/\" title=\"Apple: Boot Camp\">Boot Camp<\/a>, and I&#8217;m only up to around noon yesterday in my newsreading. Crazy.<\/p>\n<p>Boot Camp, on the off chance it hasn&#8217;t crossed your radar yet (not likely, but possible), is Apple&#8217;s just-released official methodology for setting your new Intel-based Mac up as a dual-boot Mac OS X\/Windows XP system.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ve got to love the language they chose to use in their promo materials (emphasis mine)&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  Developers can learn all about <strong>the sixth major release of Mac OS X this century<\/strong> at Apple\u2019s Worldwide Developer Conference, to be held August 7-11 in San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p>  Macs use an ultra-modern industry standard technology called EFI to handle booting. <strong>Sadly, Windows XP, and even the upcoming Vista, are stuck in the 1980s with old-fashioned BIOS.<\/strong> But with Boot Camp, the Mac can operate smoothly in both centuries.<\/p>\n<p>  Windows running on a Mac is like Windows running on a PC. That means <strong>it\u2019ll be subject to the same attacks that plague the Windows world.<\/strong> So be sure to keep it updated with the latest Microsoft Windows security fixes.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Heh. No, no snark there. None at all.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, since this is an option only available for Intel-based Macs, it&#8217;s something I&#8217;m not able to take advantage off &#8212; my first generation dual 2.0Ghz G5 PowerMac just won&#8217;t cut it. Not that (still) being unable to run Windows natively on my Mac is really a crushing blow to me&#8230;as long as I can run my math class software under Virtual PC, I&#8217;m good to go.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/news\/article\/0,aid,125325,00.asp#\" title=\"PC World: First Look: PC World Installs Windows XP on a 20-Inch iMac With Boot Camp\">PC world has a &#8216;first look&#8217; at running Windows natively on Mactel hardware<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  It works. Impressively well. With games, even. That&#8217;s our first impression of Windows XP running under Apple&#8217;s Boot Camp on our 20-inch iMac.<\/p>\n<p>  [&#8230;] Back in Windows, I got right down to business and installed a few games to put the graphics and sound support to the test. The quick and dirty verdict on performance? Most impressive. Doom 3 and Far Cry both ran smoothly with high-end graphics options turned on.<\/p>\n<p>  In both cases, I had to tweak visual settings manually, since the games automatically set themselves to very low settings. Far Cry, for example, autodetected very low settings, but it ran without a hitch when I bumped the resolution up to 1280 by 720, with all visual quality options set to &#8220;High.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>  Our 20-inch iMac came with a 2.0-GHz Core Duo processor, 1GB of RAM, and an ATI Radeon X1600 graphics card with 128MB of GDDR3 memory. That&#8217;s roughly equivalent to a high-end laptop machine, and anecdotally the performance I obtained was about what I&#8217;d have expected from that type of PC.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/click?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941.10000170&amp;type=4&amp;subid=0\" title=\"Get iTunes\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"iTunes\" border=\"0\" width=\"61\" height=\"15\" src=\"http:\/\/images.apple.com\/itunesaffiliates\/logos\/iTunes_sm_bdg61x15.png\" \/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/ad.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/show?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;bids=78941.10000170&amp;type=4&amp;subid=0\" alt=\"\" \/> &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FartistTerm%253DRidgway, Stan%2526songTerm=Roadblock, The%26partnerId%3D30\" title=\"Search for 'Roadblock, The' on the iTMS\">Roadblock, The<\/a>&#8221; by <a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FartistTerm%253DRidgway, Stan%26partnerId%3D30\" title=\"Search for 'Ridgway, Stan' on the iTMS\">Ridgway, Stan<\/a> from the album <em><a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FartistTerm%253DRidgway, Stan%2526albumTerm=Earphoria%26partnerId%3D30\" title=\"Search for 'Earphoria' on the iTMS\">Earphoria<\/a><\/em> (1991, 4:40).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boot Camp, on the off chance it hasn&#8217;t crossed your radar yet (not likely, but possible), is Apple&#8217;s just-released official methodology for setting your new Intel-based Mac up as a dual-boot Mac OS X\/Windows XP system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2039],"tags":[65],"class_list":["post-3757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}