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Boot Camp expiration

Oct 1, 2007 2:38AM PDT

Apple has started to warn users that the Beta version of Boot Camp is about to expire.

The license for ALL versions of Boot Camp will expire when Leopard (10.5) becomes available.

Boot Camp Beta 1.2 or earlier expired Spetember 30th 2007. The assistant will not open after that date

Boot Camp Beta 1.3 & 1.4 This license expires on the release of Leopard.

Full detals can be found Here

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What does this really mean?
Oct 5, 2007 9:01PM PDT

I'm not a Mac user, but what does this really mean? Does it mean that you won't be able to set up the partitioning and install Windows after this date, or will it actually lock you out of booting into the other operating system?

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It means
Oct 5, 2007 11:41PM PDT

that the Boot Camp Assistant will not run after a certain date.

WIthout the assistant, you cannot remove the Windows Partition in a clean manner.
You cannot install Windows either, because you cannot create the Windows partition. (not a bad thing:-))

After OS X 10.5 is released, all licenses for the Beta version of Boot Camp will expire.

As a non-Mac user, none of the above applies to you.

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Will Boot Camp still be usable on Tiger?
Oct 9, 2007 4:53AM PDT

If I were to get the latest version of Boot Camp now, to use with Tiger 10.4, how would that version stop working when Leopard comes out if I do not upgrade to 10.5? Could I not just keep using the latest Boot Camp version? How would it expire if no set date is coded into it?

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I'm just the messenger
Oct 9, 2007 8:27AM PDT

I don't know if it will continue to work on Tiger but I do know that the Beta portion of the license will expire when Leopard is released.

I also do not know, as I suspect you don't either, that there is not a hard expiration date built into the Beta version of BootCamp.
It would be so easy to do that with a software update.

Bear in mind that the latest version of BootCamp is a BETA version. The real version will be in Leopard and it may be that there will be a real version available for download once Leopard is released.

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