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Windows on Intel Macs - Yes or No?
With the announcement of the Intel chip based MacBook, the door is now open for running the Windows OS on Macintosh hardware, right? jaypatrick writes "BetaNews reports that along with the announcement of the first Intel based Macs yesterday, many users have rejoiced in being able to dual-boot both Mac OS X and Windows. Unfortunately, this is not the case; due to Apple's use of the extensible firmware interface (EFI) rather than BIOS, current Windows releases will not run on the systems." I guess not. But, wait... Big Z writes "Phil Schiller, Apple's senior vice-president of worldwide product marketing, said in an interview Tuesday that the company won't sell or support Windows itself, but also hasn't done anything to preclude people from loading Windows onto the machines themselves." I think someone actually trying it out is the only way this is going to get straightened out.
Great, now I can have an exploitable and virus infected operating system running on my Mac! The only place I want to see Windows running is on someone else's machine.
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...the posts breathlessly announcing "Hackers manage to make Windows run on Apple", "Hackers manage to make Windows run on off the shelf Dell PC", "Hackers manage to make Windows run on X-Box", "Hackers manage make Windows run", complete with little pictures of the device in question displaying something characteristic of Windows....
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I'm also upset that my nintendo DS won't run the PSP operating system, I mean come on, they're both hand held gaming consoles, I should be able to dual boot, right?! /snark.
Surely you jest. Apple wouldn't be putting out 32-bit systems still, nor would Intel be building them. Just because they don't mention it doesn't mean it isn't there, along with Execute Disable, which is mentioned and is part of the 64-bit specification.
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More important to me are the lack of a full-size 5-pin DIN keyboard port, a DB-9 serial port, and 5 1/4" floppy drive.
The fact that I can't use my 23 year old floppies and keyboard really bothers me.
I placed a Windows 95 CD in viewing distance of my linux machines and they never gave me troubles since. MS, ensuring your hardware behaves for two decades and counting.
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And how is that behaviour different from Windows running non-emulated?
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Well, it looks like since 2004 or so.
I think I'll stop here.
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because the prices are simply to damn high. Lets face it, most consumers don't know the difference between a Mac and PC but they do know the difference between a $500 DELL and a $1400 Mac! It's not rocket science. If Apple's ulterior motive for moving to Intel's architecture is to eventually compete with Wintel systems, they are gonna have to do something about there pricing. As far as I see it, the main difference between the two systems will eventually come down to the operating system and charging someone a rediculas premium for "everyday hardware" so they can run your OS is pretty ballsy. Especially when Apple has no way of hiding the prices (like they used to) behind fancy and unneccessary hardware like SCSI.
Mac have no games, BTW
There's WoW, Nethack, UT, Q3A, MAME and BZFlag you insensitive clod ! What else do you need?
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> Windows already runs on EFI on some architectures.
Great! Now all you have to do is recompile it for x86.
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