Jim Louderback, editor-in-chief of PC Magagine has recently posted an article entitled Boot Camp: Apple Bobs for Suckers.

He rambles on and on about how Boot Camp is a snore, and that the only reason people want an Apple Computer these days, is because they look sexy. Hello? Jim? Where have you been for the past 5 years? He says that “there are dozens of better-looking notebooks out there than those tired, industrial-looking iBooks and PowerBooks that dribble out of Infinite Loop.”

He goes on to give some examples about one of the Toshiba Portege’s and the Acer Ferrari, of which I must say I find neither at all appealing.

Following this, he bashes the Mac Mini saying that it can’t do high-end graphics. Jim, wake up for crying out loud. The Mac Mini is a budget PC for home users, not a high-end workstation for graphics professionals. When’s the last time you picked up a $500 Dell box and handed to a professional graphic designer telling them that this 512MB machine with an 80GB disk is all they’re getting.

Unfortunately, the pain doesn’t end there. He starts rambling on about how useless it is to run Windows on a Mac right now, because there aren’t any Desktop machines with expansion slots. So we’ll never know if we can use our ancient legacy SCSI adapter on the Windows install on our Mac.

One quote that I’m afraid I just can’t leave alone is this one:

The really creative computer users are the case modders who build extravagant designs to house their systems.

Jim? What are you talking about? I thought the really creative computer users were the ones who build awesomewebapps, wrote amazing webframeworks, utilized technology to improve business, and made completely unreal artwork, among other things. But then again, clearly I’m mistaken. Apparently the only really creative computer users are ones who do build “extravagant designs to house their systems”.

The remaining sections of the article are labeled “Reliability”, “Flexibility” and “Price”. But I’m afraid I’m out of time, and feeling rather nauseous at how biased and clueless Louderback seems to be. The whole point of Bootcamp is to:

a) Ultimately, to get people to switch from Windows to OS X.

b) Help you run that one windows-only app you just can’t live without.

The hypothetical situation, I’m sure, is that your PC user Joe will buy a Mac, install bootcamp, and maybe use 80% Windows and 20% OS X. Then they’re going to get a bunch of malware and viruses on the Windows install, at which point they’ll be using 60% Windows and 40% OS X. Then they’re going to go through Driver Hell to try to get their new digital camera to work on Windows, and realize that if they use OS X, they just have to plug the camera in and it works. Now we’re up to 60% OS X and 40% Windows. Can you see where this is going?

Wake up and smell the coffee, Jim.