June 13th, 2007
"Sleep Camp" nixed, you still have to reboot
There was some pretty exciting news that came out of WWDC yesterday about Boot Camp, Apple’s Windows/Mac dual boot architecture for Intel-based machines. According to an early version of Apple’s updated Boot Camp page the company changed the technology dramatically for the upcoming release of Mac OS 10.5/Leopard.
Rather than having to shut down the entire Mac OS and and cold boot into Windows (a lengthy process of between 15 and 20 minutes at times), Boot Camp was changed so that you could simply “sleep” Mac OS and log into Windows:
Leopard brings a quicker way to switch between Mac OS X and Windows: Just choose the new Apple menu item “Restart in Windows.” Your Mac goes into “safe sleep” so that when you return, you’ll be right where you were. It’s much faster than restarting the computer each time. Likewise, a “Restart in Mac OS X” menu item in the Boot Camp System Tray in Windows makes for a faster return to Mac OS X. With Windows hibernation enabled, you can pick up where you left off.
In an unusual move, Apple has seemingly pulled the “faster restarts” feature and removed it entirely from the Boot Camp page. MacRumors has posted the original page from the Google cache.
The feature was halfway to fully virtualizing Boot Camp (Virtual Camp?) like I suggested might do in my pre-WWDC predictions piece.
So why did Apple kill off Sleep Camp?
Was it because Boot Camp program manager “freaked out?” Or did Parallels and VMWare cry foul that Apple was stealing their third party developers technology? Will “Sleep Camp” come back for the final release of Leopard?
Conspiracy Theorists unite!
Jason D. O'Grady is the editor of PowerPage.org, which has been publishing daily mobile technology news since December 1995. For disclosures on Jason's industry affiliations, click here or to view Jason's full profile click here.
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