Bootcamp Beta after 31st of december??

[fryke]

BootCamp Assistant will be disabled. You can, however, turn the date on your computer back and still use the software.

Your Windows XP partition will _not_ be disabled, regardless of whether you've created it before or after 2007-12-31.

But: Apple never promised it would work after Leopard was released. From their instructions it has always been clear that for BootCamp, you'd want to upgrade to Leopard.

[kebosma]

So, I still can use Windows after the 1st of januari 2008?

That's great, I only use it to update the police traffic checks on my TomTom navigation system, since there's nothing available for OSX, and I don't want to run Windows in some kind of emulation program under OSX.

Well, I will buy Leopard anyway, but I still want to wait, since my mac is running so well...

[Gordon Bombay]

Since bootcamp beta will expire after the 31st is there anywhere i can download it and get XP installed before the assistant expires? I noticed the download is gone off the main apple sire, but is it available anywhere else? This would be great as I can't really afford to just throw 80 bucks at parallels right now.

[kebosma]

Bootcamp assistant is already disabled, from the exact moment Leopard was launched.

If you'd be able to find the download somewhere (I still have it by the way), I really doubt whether you can use it.

I don't know whether there are possibilities on MacOsx.com to share freeware downloads, but if so, I have the download.

[Gordon Bombay]

Found the download, downloaded it, and no it didn't work, thank you for your offer though. Looks like I'm just gonna have to fork over 80 bucks, damn.

[Giaguara]

Or get Fusion rather

I've spent a few hours looking at the code of Boot Camp to bypass the time limit. Nothing that I could find without wasting weeks of work time (or too busy and not paid to do that deep code analysis for it..) ...

[Gordon Bombay]

Which is what I was saying I'd have to fork over 80 dollars for...

Edit: ha, my bad, i was talking about parallels earlier. So judging from what everyones been saying on this site....vmware fusion over parallels?

[Paul C]

Originally Posted by Gordon Bombay

Found the download, downloaded it, and no it didn't work, thank you for your offer though. Looks like I'm just gonna have to fork over 80 bucks, damn.

Could be worse dude, here in the UK we have to pay £85 ($170)