[OT] Cringely on BootCamp's future

[Dan Shafer]

Ah, but Chipp, the fly in your ointment (oooh, ugly metaphor) is the word
"just". The premium buys you (in the best scenario):

* more secure Vista
* more stable Vista
* OS X and all its charms

(BTW, I blogged this one at http://www.danshafer.com/onemind/?q=node/98



On 4/17/06, Chipp Walters <chipp at chipp.com> wrote:
>
> Interesting, but you're right, Cringely often is not.
>
> Couple serious holes, among them the fact I just bought a Sony Core Duo
> laptop including 1Gb RAM, DVD read/write, integrated camera, PCMCIA slot
> and slots for all other 'card media', Fire-wire, and ULTRA-BRITE display
> for only $1300.
>
> You can't touch that for under $2K from Apple. So, there's quite a
> premium (> 33%) to purchase an Apple laptop just to run Windows.
>
> best,
>
> Chipp
>
> Richard Gaskin wrote:
> > Bob Cringely always has an interesting take on things, as is right about
> >  20 times more often than John Dvorak (which I suppose isn't saying much
> > <g>).
> >
> > This week he opines about Boot Camp, a fun read  -- esp. if you own
> > Apple stock:
> > <http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20060413.html>
> >
>
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