Apple Yanks Fast Switching Between Windows & Mac OS X?

For a little while yesterday, Apple had a section on Leopard’s Boot Camp page that discussed a pretty useful feature. It said that Boot Camp was going to utilize the Mac’s "safe sleep" mode (equivalent to hibernation in Windows) to give users a one-click option to restart the computer in Windows.

Here’s what the feature said:

New, faster restarts.
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.

This would then allow a user to quickly do what they need to, and then boot back into Mac OS X picking up where they left off. Of course using the feature would use up some of the hard drive space, which can actually be quite a bit if you have 2GB of RAM. That would mean you would need 2GB to hibernate Mac OS X and then another 2GB to hibernate Windows, coming to a total of 4GB of hard drive space that you need free.

At any rate, that feature has since been removed from the Boot Camp site for Leopard. Either that is something they decided not to include, or they want to try and keep it a secret for the launch.

In other Boot Camp news version 1.3 Beta was released a few days ago as Richard pointed out in our forum. The new version enables keyboard backlighting and fixes some of the bugs that have been found.