Wednesday, 3 October 2007

Apple bundles Boot Camp With Mac OS X Leopard

Apple, it is learned, is making its Boot Camp, which allows users to create a dual-boot environment on an Intel Mac so that the computer can boot into either Mac OS X or Windows, to run only when a user upgrades to Leopard.

Boot Camp has been available as a public beta since last year and most Mac users have assumed that boot camp wouldn’t remain free. Now there are talks in the IT world that the Boot Camp beta will expire upon the release of Leopard. It comes with a note: "To continue using Boot Camp at that time, upgrade to Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard."

What this means is Apple wants to bundle Boot Camp to the next generation of Mac OS X codenamed Leopard.