By now , you have to forgive Mac buff for being a bit punchy . Over the preceding year , they ’ve been through two tectonic shifts in the Mac landscape painting . First came the daze of hearing the watchword “ Mac ” and “ Intel fleck ” in the same judgment of conviction . Then came the staggering news that — with the unveiling of those Intel Macs and the release of Apple ’s Boot Camp software — it was now potential to run Windows on a Mac . Once they ’d recover a bit from that last development , Macworld reader went to their keyboard to let us know what they intend of it .
Boot Camp recruits
Tom Kirkman — Apple ’s decision to allow the Mac to boot Windows is go to be a public relation nightmare . Windows is bad . It is laden with bugs , glitches , and holes . Even when installed on a Mac , it will still freeze , hang , and in general frustrate the user . But how many Mac newcomers will pick the Mac for these problem instead of Windows ? Apple ’s repute for making fuss - devoid product will take a vast hit .
Dale Stebbins — Boot Camp works great ! After buying Windows XP fromVioSoftwarefor $ 133 , I installed it on my Mac mini with no trouble . I now expend it to run QuickBooks and the occasional employment software . My success may be partially because I was act upon with a brand - new figurer . For anyone think of doing this , my best advice is this : keep up Apple ’s Boot Camp directions precisely . Do n’t depart from the step - by - stone’s throw teaching , and you should follow too .
Robin Cowan — My first response to Boot Camp was “ enceinte , now everyone can link up the Apple pack . ” However , I see a Trojan sawbuck here , insofar as Boot Camp off the incentive for third - company developers to compose programs for the Mac . I predict that ultimately we will boot up Mac osmium to run Apple package only ; sadly , we ’ll be draw to use Windows for everything else .
Chris Hofflin — Three hard truths about bodied IT will keep the Mac a dress shop brand : 1 . Macs are significantly more expensive than PCs . Corporations are not looking for coolness , they ’re look at carrying into action per buck , and that ’s where the Mac lose in comparison with Dell , HP , and Lenovo . 2 . Mac security department has come a long way , but the Mac still does n’t offer distribute security measure like Active Directory . 3 . The numeral of app available for the personal computer still dwarfs the option on the Mac platform . The vast majority of industry - specific applications support Windows only . Boot Camp wo n’t change any of these factors . mackintosh make very expensive Windows machines .
Bruce Polkowsky — Now that Apple has developed Mac OS X for Intel fleck and offered a mode to draw Windows on an Intel Mac , am I the only one thinking there should be a way to execute the Universal variation of OS X on an Intel PC ? I hope someone figures that out so I can set free my work PC .
Bill Egan — While you ’re talking about way of running two operating organization on a undivided computer , I conceive you should compare that to using a KVM switch to understudy between two separate computing gadget . I ’m presently lead a simulation on my Windows XP simple machine while I save this on my Mac . I have only one varan , but I can quickly switch between the two machines by pressing a hot - key combining on my only keyboard . I can spell data from my XP machine via Ethernet or e - post , and comprise it into a spreadsheet on my Mac . There are some veridical advantages to figure out this mode .
Apple’s Top 30
Jim Martin — I was greatly thwarted to see that you miss Keynote from your inclination of the top 30 Apple products of all time ( Mac Beat , June 2006 ) . Even in its first reading , Keynote overwhelmed PowerPoint with its capableness and elegance , and each major update just reach the difference more significant . The Second Advent of Keynote get Microsoft to impart some goodies to PowerPoint , but it is still a pain to use equate with Keynote .
Rick Blaine — Of all the article published so far about Apple ’s thirtieth anniversary , I have n’t seen one that mentioned OpenDoc . Today it sounds like just another unsung technology that never really guide off . But back in 1996 it was the raging thing Apple had to show . Apple executives at the time said that the two cornerstone technologies for the company ’s future were the PowerPC and OpenDoc . We all make love how that foretelling turned out .
Bob Thomas — Although it was n’t an Apple product , I was surprised that you advert PageMaker only in the LaserWriter section . Without PageMaker and the people who used it to leap - start the desktop publishing frenzy , I ’m not sure the Macintosh would have been anything more than a diachronic curiosity , like the Commodore or Osborn .
There ’s no doubt that PageMaker was hugely influential in invest the Mac on the mapping . But there ’s also no doubt that it was n’t an Apple product and hence did n’t fit into a leaning of the most authoritative Apple products of all time.—Ed .
Pros and cams
Kenneth Reither — I recover Richard Baguley ’s roundup of point - and - shoot digital television camera to be trivial and grossly in erroneous belief . For example , I in earnest doubt that the Nikon Coolpix P2 ’s simulacrum quality is “ average . ” I have a similar lens on a different Nikon point - and - shoot , and the image tone is excellent . Also , I ’m sure some of the reviewed cameras have better assault and battery life than others , but to say that four of the cameras are “ flawed ” in that respect is nonsensical . A assault and battery that lasts 200 icon between recharges is scarcely flawed .
Tracy Popenhagen — I love your reviews of digital cameras , but I have one big complaint : the depiction . Why , oh why , do you show the front of photographic camera ? How often do digital photographic camera substance abuser reckon at the front ? I desire to see the back . How big is the display ? What kind of controls do I get ? How vainglorious is the viewfinder ? I get laid it ’s traditional to show production in a face - on shot , but in this case it does the reader no good .
No accounting for taste
Gary Stein — I comply your advice ( which is usually pretty honest ) and buy MYOB ’s First Edge ( More Reviews , June 2006 ) . large fault ! It comes with no customer support — none , zero , nada . There is n’t even e - postal service support ! If you have a question , you have tobuycustomer support , which costs $ 50 or more . I ’m indisputable FirstEdge is a adept product , but that ’s not enough to surmount the miserable customer support . I bid I ’d corrupt Intuit ’s QuickBooks — it offer better funding , plus compatibility with Quicken and TurboTax . If QuickBooks had an entry - storey Mac Cartesian product , I ’d cast FirstEdge out .
Dean Olsen — About your review of QuickBooks Pro ( More Reviews , June 2006 ): I am an controller and ply an almost all - Mac office , and I remember QuickBooks is simply unacceptable as a occupation accounting package . ( It does bring me a muckle of customer , though , because of how severely it can know up a business enterprise ’s books . ) I get very upset when reviewers write such favourable reviews of substandard product . Please hold the developers to the flaming and make them put out business concern software for the Mac that is acceptable .
Which way up?
Clyde Mueller — In “ New Life for Old Photos ” ( June 2006 ) , author Derrick Story referred to the picture show ’s photographic emulsion as “ the shinier side . ” The emulsion side is actually the duller , flatness side . It ’s important to know which side is which , or else all your scan come out flopped .
