Certainly, dual booting is nothing new. In fact Apple has offered Bootcamp for years, for users that want to power down – then power up computers from a Mac OS to a Windows OS. I’ve been a fan of VM Ware or Parallels, since “restarting” seems like a waste of time. But for general users, the VM idea may throw them for a loop.
The solution: BootPicker. http://www.apple.com/education/resources/bootpicker/
One district I work with shared this tool with me. They have some Mac Book labs and needed an easy, yet stylish and user friendly way to offer the same devices for Windows needs. This seems perfect. Users get prompted on power-up which OS to boot in. If they wait and choose nothing, they auto boot into Windows. Of course, as I understand it, there are a ton of configuration options and customizations.
Nice post Marty. I didn’t know this existed. Of course I’m not yet a Mac user (read $$$). 🙂
I have however been using the Ubuntu “bootpicker” for the last year or so. I don’t believe there to be much in the form of configurations but otherwise it’s the same concept except the default is Ubuntu over Win.
“One district I work with shared this tool with me.” Sounds like that district has it goin’ on! Maybe we could go tour their cutting edge instructional technology headquarters to see the other great new things they are doing.
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