There are corners of the A le su ort discu ion forums that make you want to dre in black and sit in your room with all the lights off. The current cry for techno-Zoloft is in some forlorn threads regarding iMac 24" boxes that fail to di lay anything in Windows, a symptom du ed the "Black Screen of Death." The internal di lay stays black after i talling the Boot Camp drivers, which is understandably frustrating for the owners of these (otherwise normal, at least in Mac OS X) finely engineered machines. Since Boot Camp is u u orted, from an A le per ective these machines aren't broken at all. Won't you please help? No operators are standing by...While I sympathize with this plight, having ent a couple of days struggling with a 20" iMac that refused to light up when booted into XP (eventual solution: remove half the RAM, reboot, rei tall RAM. Cutting head off of chicken and rinkling holy water optional), I have to wonder if we're doing ourselves a service when we buy Macs with the expre purpose of ru ing Windows on them full-time.
I know of sho that are doing this -- I'm doing it at the day job -- but there is a fairly su tantial degree of uncovered-behindne in the deployment of a beta solution with an OS u u orted on the hardware and no promise (until Leopard at least) of any help from the Motherfruit. In a se e, this is where someone ru ing Linux on Dell gear is sitting -- fine as long as everything works, then out of luck when it doe 't.
Should A le su ort XP, to the point of swa ing hardware under warranty if it won't boot Windows but works fine in OS X? Let us know your thoughts.
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