Windows on Intel Macs - Yes or No?

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Windows on Intel Macs - Yes or No?

Posted by Zonk on Thursday January 12, 2006 @05:09AM from the will-they-or-won't-they dept.

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.

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Re:One box... by RevDobbs · 2006-01-12 05:15 · Score: 5, Funny

I wonder what a beowulf cluster of these could do.

Empty your wallet.
I eagerly await by Snamh+Da+Ean · 2006-01-12 05:16 · Score: 5, Funny

...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....
1. Re:I eagerly await by vjmurphy · 2006-01-12 05:51 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  "complete with little pictures of the device in question displaying something characteristic of Windows...."
  
  The Blue Screen of Death?
  
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Re:EFI vs OpenFirmware by Karma+Farmer · 2006-01-12 05:52 · Score: 3, Funny

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.
It is nice if you like to anthropomorphise our PC by SmallFurryCreature · 2006-01-12 06:26 · Score: 5, Funny

Your new macbook looking like it is about to lock up? Whip out that Windows Install CD and tell it in a nasty voice that you could easily slide the CD in its virginal slot and have its hardware rooted by every little hacker out there before it can call Apple support.
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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Re:It is nice if you like to anthropomorphise our by Anonymous Coward · 2006-01-12 06:39 · Score: 3, Funny

You, sir, have a rapist wit.
Re:Agree, this will not be not a common occurance by Reckless+Visionary · 2006-01-12 07:16 · Score: 4, Funny

http://www.testdriven.co.uk/news.cfm/bmw_opens_chi na_factory
Well, it looks like since 2004 or so.

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