Boot Camp: Free for Leopards, $30 for Tigers
- January 22nd, 2007
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When Leopard, the forthcoming version of Apple’s OS X, hits the streets in the coming weeks, it will ship with Boot Camp, built-in software that allows Intel-based Macs to dual-boot to Windows XP (or, indeed, Vista). It’s included as part of the 10.5 OS package. But if you’re planning on sticking with Tiger, the most recent OS X version, Apple wants you to pay $30 for Boot Camp.
Is this a nickel-and-diming, money-making scheme or a carrot-and-stick approach for getting users up to Leopard? We think it’s a little bit of both.
Apple to charge Mac OS X Tiger users for final Boot Camp release? [MacScoop]
Peter (Who am I?)
1 year ago
I think they need to include parallels..
Kyle (Who am I?)
1 year ago
And a copy of windows ……..
Reg (Who am I?)
1 year ago
Not unprecendented: iChat AV was used as a carrot to entice rabbits to 10.3 from 10.2.
http://news.com.com/Apple+unleashes+Panther/2100-1045_3-1020215.html
Matt (Who am I?)
1 year ago
I think that people sometimes forget that Business have to make money and sometimes these decisions that they make (even though we would love to get everything for free) are made as business decisions and not just to take advantage of the consumer. Think about if you were running your own business. You do have to give somethings but you cant give everything for free, a year ago everyone would have paid only $30 to run windows on there mac too. Its only thirty bucks! There is not a lot of complaining on this site but some others are having a fit.
c9re (Who am I?)
3 weeks ago
Do you even know what bootcamp is? Its a bunch of frickin drivers. Have you paid for any drivers to hardware you actually own?
Sean (Who am I?)
7 months ago
My girlfriend’s MacBook hard drive just crashed and it came back from Apple without Boot Camp. I managed to copy the version from my MacBook, set the date on her computer back to before the expiration, and use it to install Win XP.
Anonymous
7 months ago
I bought os x and have a new mac where is the boot so I can install vista??
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