Boot Camp: Free for Leopards, $30 for Tigers

Matt Hickey

Monday, January 22nd, 2007

When Leopard, the forthcoming version of Apple’s OS X, hits the streets in the coming weeks, it will ship with Boot Camp, built-in software that allows Intel-based Macs to dual-boot to Windows XP (or, indeed, Vista). It’s included as part of the 10.5 OS package. But if you’re planning on sticking with Tiger, the most recent OS X version, Apple wants you to pay $30 for Boot Camp.

Is this a nickel-and-diming, money-making scheme or a carrot-and-stick approach for getting users up to Leopard? We think it’s a little bit of both.

Apple to charge Mac OS X Tiger users for final Boot Camp release? [MacScoop]

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