Just one question for all of the people making such a fuss about Boot Camp.

Are you aware that dual booting sucks?

Gruber points out that it's a good thing for Mac because it might remove the last stumbling block before a lot of people. But I'm not really sure that it will. I used to keep Windows on my Linux boxes, so that I could play games and whatnot. But all that really meant was that I never played any games and I wasted 5 or 6 gigabytes of hard disk space.

Suppose that you're a Windows user, and for you Application X is the "killer app." Whatever it is -- Halo or Windows Paint or whatever. Sure, you might think for a second, "Sweet, now I can have a better experience from my OS, and just use Windows when I need Application X." But after a minute, you'll also think, "Wait, do I really want to have to stop everything else I'm doing and reboot my computer to use Application X? Do I really want to have to maintain two copies and configurations of a lot of software (mail reader, IM client, etc) in order to exist comfortably in the operating system where I use Application X?"

No, you don't. So you're back to choosing between Application X and your operating system.

It's also true that this is a no-lose situation for Apple. But it isn't news worthy, because there's just to way that it wins more than a handful of converts.

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