Vaughn Bullard

All things that keep my interest

Tag Archives: Windows

Why I dual-boot.

April 10th, 2006

Hmmmm,

I’ve been reading some blogs regarding that Mac users are ardently opposed to dual-booting Windows. If this was the case, why would Apple create BootCamp? These two occurences are in sharp contrast.

I, for one, love my MacBook and one would have trouble prying it from my cold, dead lifeless fingers. I will not give up the $25K in software that I’ve invested with the Mac. Just no way! My reason for dual-booting Windows and Mac is because my company does not create Mac-based binaries for their software suite. I don’t want to carry around my ThinkPad, that the company issued me, in addition to the MacBook. I also program in Java and Visual C# .NET with MS Visual Studio 2005. As a consultant, I need flexibility because not all of my customers have one type of architecture nor do they have one type of language that they program in.

So therefore, I created a partition for Windows that I use exclusively for work. It provides me more flexibility than before and made me a happier Apple customer.

So, maybe Apple knows that there are folks out there like me who need that specific flexibility. As for the Mac users who are ardently opposed to dual-booting Windows; well, they need to go back to the Tar Pits. Get used to the fact that ‘the times they are a changin”.

:Vaughn

Tags: Apple, customer, trouble, tar pits, fingers, Studio

How Apple loses customers!

April 10th, 2006

So, I sit down at my local Border’s coffee shop this morning to have my morning latte. A gentleman sits down behind me asking me if that’s the new Intel-based Mac notebook. I responded ‘Yes, it is, and I’m quite happy with it.’ I proceeded to give him a tour of the new features and then show him my Windows booting up. He’s flabbergasted (in a modest sort of way).

So he proceeds to tell me the story of how his PowerBook G4 completely died in January. He was going to buy a new Intel MacBook Pro (because it wouldn’t make sense to invest backwards to the current G4s), but because he needed it right away, he went ahead and ordered a new Acer Laptop with the little Ferrari logo. I thought his looked pretty cool as well. He said he wished he knew what was coming, that he might have waited for the MacBook Pro.

He was a Mac-Zealot-turned-PC-switchback because Apple oversold and under-delivered the laptops in January. I don’t know who is running what in Cupertino, but it looks like Apple needs to take heed of events like that; albeit one person switching. But I wonder how many G4s failed in January and how many switchbacks occured? THIS does not have to happen; especially if you’re trying to gain market share.

:Vaughn

Tags: Windows, switching, coffee, acer laptop, latte, coffee shop, Cupertino