Wall Street Likes Boot Camp
I'm not the only one waxing a bit enthusiastic about the potential value in Apple's move to facilitate loading and running Windows on its Intel CPUs. Apple's stock was up almost 10% today after the announcement about Boot Camp. In more dramatic terms, Apple added $5 billion to its market capitalization today.
Got a little spare change to invest? The stock analysts interviewed by the Wall Street Journal today unanimously applauded Apple's move and have target prices ranging from $90-$103/share for its stock. It closed today at just over $67. Most of those analysts believe Apple's share of the personal computing market will start increasing as Intel Macs loaded with Boot Camp become more available.
Oh no! I'll bet this means more Mac viruses, and probably bankruptcy in less than six months! ;-)
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John, I'd be amazed if the Windows version isn't significantly faster than the translated version. In fact, The Wall Street Journal's Walter Mossberg has already done a review of Windows running under Boot Camp and here's what he says about the speed: In Windows mode, the iMac was blazingly fast -- far faster than my two-year-old H-P Windows computer.
This isn't surprising to me. I don't profess to know the details of what Boot Camp does or how it does it, but it's not an emulator or a translator. My understanding is that it simply allows the Mac to boot into Windows, after which that OS runs natively on the Intel chip. There shouldn't be much, if any, speed penalty vs. running on an actual Wintel box.
As far as comparing Photoshop under Rosetta to a non-Rosetta version, the current issue of MacWorld does just that, and in its test suite on a Mac mini, every version of the Intel-powered computer runs signficantly slower than the slowest non-Intel computer...up to 3 times as slowly. I think my old 500mhz G4 is probably as fast as an Intel Mac using Rosetta!
Posted by: Eric at April 6, 2006 08:27 PMIn Windows mode, the iMac was blazingly fast -- far faster than my two-year-old H-P Windows computer.
Erm...brand-new dual-core processor v. 2 year-old PC with unspecified CPU? Yes, well...SUPERIOR!
Posted by: Scott Chaffin at April 6, 2006 10:17 PMYes, well...SUPERIOR!
I assumed this comparison was directed to Mac users who up to this point were saddled with the crawling slow speed of running Windows under the software emulation of VirtualPC. It's not a statement of hardware superiority.
Dang, but you're getting sensitive nowadays. ;-)
Posted by: Eric at April 7, 2006 12:40 PMAbout the publisher
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I'd be interested to see the relative speeds of apps like Adobe Photoshop for Windows using Boot Camp vs. the current Photoshop CS2 version for Macs using Rosetta to translate it for the Intel chip.
Posted by: John at April 6, 2006 07:07 PM