So, what you are saying is that Mac OS X is better than windows ?
Yup.
If Mac OS X is indeed that superior, they should release it as a competitor to windows, and allow anyone to use the hardware they want.
I agree. (In fact, I've argued that since before there *was* an OS X -- Windows only caught up to Mac OS around Windows 95, and even that was debatable.)
But they don't want to, and since they own the damn thing, that's their prerogative.
(There are hacks out there that let you install OS X on non-Mac hardware, by the way, but of course Apple doesn't like that. See
here and
here, for example.)
Not that I am that familiar with boot camp, but at least when I run vmware, everything works slower compared to a pure windows XP machine, or pure ubuntu / linux distribution. Why would you want to have a Mac to emulate windows on it ? and if you are running Mac OS X , you still have the problem of a lot of software not working in it ? I know there is also an emulater of windows you could run inside Mac OS X, but again for me it works slower.
Boot Camp isn't emulation; it's just a bootstrap that allows dual-booting. Ever since Mac went Intel, the hardware is capable of running Windows natively. In fact, rather amusingly, when PCWorld ran Vista benchmarks on laptops, the MacBook Pro held the spot for "fastest Vista laptop" for a while.
VMWare and other virtualization systems do make a performance hit, but it's relatively small. They run the binaries natively too -- they only implement a wrapper that interfaces with the host OS. I'm not sure I'd want to run games from a virtual machine, but for anything else it works fine. (I'm running both Ubuntu and WinXP in VMWare on my work box, and both run very snappily as long as I don't run out of memory -- running both at once while trying to do stuff on the OS X side is tedious. But then it's only a basic white MacBook, not heavier iron.)
But if you are just using software that is availiable to Mac already and you save a lot of time by using OS X, I can now see that it makes sense using it for you.
Yep-o. The only thing Macs aren't good for nowadays is games; Jobs doesn't get them, never did; the only way to get a good Mac game system is to buy one of those Mac Pro monsters. The iMac 24 is a step in the right direction, but still falls short. Hm, perhaps if Jobs quits this will change...