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Multi-booting Mac Intel Developer Machines

Posted by timothy on from the multiplicity dept.

ytsejam-ppc writes "Ross Carlson over at Jasbone.com has a great article up on how to install multiple operating systems on the new Intel based developer edition Macs. His particular setup triple-booted Mac OS X 10.4.1 (Intel), CentOS 4 and Windows XP. Just makes me drool."

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  1. Yes by OverlordQ · · Score: 5, Insightful

    And how many of us have these developer machines?

    What that? Zero . . ah ok . . .

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    1. Re:Yes by daveschroeder · · Score: 5, Insightful

      And yet, people have them.

      Further, by the end of 2007, all Macs will be Intel based (according to Apple's initial statement).

      So people might care to see what types of things may, and likely will, be possible.

      Especially people who might want to buy *one* machine, say, a laptop, and run Mac OS X, Windows, Linux, and other x86 OSes on it, all at native speeds. And yes, one way or another, this will likely be trivially possible. See my other posts for more information.

      In other words, this is very interesting to that group of people. Which, among slashdot readers, is probably quite a lot.

  2. Yes... by daveschroeder · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ...they likely won't be using BIOS.

    But if they're using EFI (a distinct possibility), it's still likely that Windows will be able to be directly installed.

    And even if they make the unlikely choice of Open Firmware, that doesn't stop Windows (and any other x86 OS) from running at essentially the full speed of the native underlying hardware in a virtual machine environment that someone is bound to produce. In fact, that's likely even *more* desirable to a larger number of people than the hassle of dual booting. And a VM is possible regardless of what the boot mechanism will be.