If this was Microsoft they would have been torn apart by now, those SOBs get torn apart for some crazy bugs no one cares about yet Apple has been screwing over some of its customers quite sometime with a piece of software that doesn't work, where are the complaints?
Bootcamp on certain 24" iMacs (ones with outdated nVidia 7300/7600 videocards) doesn't work, in fact it hasn't been working since the launch of the iMac last year! Get this, Apple has been screwing over its customers with a buggy piece of crap software for the past year and no one has complained about it until now via this typical Apple fanboy blog post (typical in the sense it gives no sources and says it's a secret) showing off just how 'content' iMac users are.
I wouldn't tolerate it of Microsoft if my system didn't support software it should, heck, I can barely tolerate the fact that some games from the Windows 98 days don't run on Vista. But you know, Bootcamp is unimportant, the very reason those damned IntelMacs exist is just an extra thrown in. It's only a 'beta' version of the software which magically exempts it from working for about a full year.
This just goes without saying, too many Mac owners are too busy justifying their purchase that they don't dare complain about their faulty products. No one who uses a Windows machine would be that forgiving of Microsoft and rightly so, about time Apple fanboys got with the program and stopped allowing Apple from pushing them around. Theres no pride in owning a Mac, especially if one of its key features is stuffed.
You know what? Let me highlight the fact, look at the comments section,
You don't know what you've got till it's gone. Those white iMacs were actually quite a bit better than the current ones which have a glare-plagued screen and weak graphics. Come back, come back!
Well Wait for the xMac announcement in November.
Anyone know if the current iMacs have MXM slots either.
The name of the update strikes me as odd simply because Apple has never admitted to using the MXM card slot AFAIK.
It may be a MXM slot but you need a EFI rom on the video card for it to work.
I was wondering the same thing. Anyone know if an upgrade is possible? Maybe 8600GT 512MB DDR2 from MXM based notebooks.
So the first five posts is not about the fact Apple has not repaired a fatal software problem since almost about a year ago, it's either about how bad the new iMacs are (i.e. buy the old crappy one that doesn't actually run Bootcamp!), how we should wait for another rumoured announcement for another piece of crap that will probably have plaguing issues of its own, and the next three is all about 'awww, I wanna upgrade my Mac' to which I have the simple response of YOU CAN'T!
Naturally after all that crud theres something about how bad Apples behaviour has been
That's really poor that it's taken over a year to resolve that kind of issue and yet again graphics card related. They seriously need to think about hiring people who know what the hell they're doing when it comes to graphics. Carmack from id said they had to inform Apple's team about graphics-related problems in their software and there's been quite a few driver problems lately.
Does this go on? Nope, back to 'I wanna upgrade my shiny computer... oooh pretty liiiights!'
ati and nvidia used to code there own mac drivers maybe they should restart that and come out with video cards with efi roms for mac systems.
Now for a strange phenomenon, a Mac user actually complaining about his systems obvious failings,
I upgraded to the new iMac 24" aluminum just to run Boot Camp beta, and to my surprise I'm still having issues. While I can run Vista with good performance scores, I can't get the drivers to go up to full 1900x1200 resolution (max in Vista is something like 1900x1080!). I've tried everything, including installing ATI's Catalyst drivers; I'm assuming this will be fixed with Leopard. Rather, I'm hoping.
Naturally to wrap it up we have more 'I wanna have nice graphix cards like teh evil Micro$oft users!!1!!1!'
This was why I asked about MXM in Alu iMacs. If Apple is using MXM in all iMacs (and they could use them in MBP / Mac Minis in the future) then pretty soon there would be enough people with the slot and EFI to justify a third party card.
They use custem heat pipes and Heat sinks.
So what was the title of the article in question? "Apple's iMac MXM Updater to cure iMac's Boot Camp woes". It would seem Apple prides itself on having an idiot customer base. 
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