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Intel Macs May Boot Windows XP After All
mister_tim writes "While we'll have to wait till someone actually tries it to get absolute confirmation, news coming from Intel in Australia, reported here by Dan Warne in the Australian Personal Computer magazine, is that the new Intel-based Macs may be able to load and boot Windows XP after all. Several of the early stories after the announcement of the MacBook Pro and the Intel-based iMac assumed that Windows XP would not boot on Intel Macs, since XP doesn't support EFI (replacing BIOS in the new Macs), and Apple's statement that they wouldn't prevent the use of XP on Apple hardware didn't really give people much assurance either way. This statement from Intel implies that there is really no issue."
I give it two hours before somebody tries this and posts results. *starts stopwatch*
The Windows Server 2003 Enterprise doesn't support Infrared. :-)
It would be a a shame to lose such an important connectivity link on an Laptop...
So what? This is tantamount to saying something like "Hey, I just got a new Ferrari and the engine bay will accept a four-cylinder Chevrolet engine...." OK, OK....Perhaps a bit overstated, but still.....
... but vista should http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10794396/from/RS.3/
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does it run Linux?
*ducks*
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Just when I thought we had hit the cap on stories posted concerning Microsoft, Apple, and Intel, we get one that could reasonably be filed under Microsoft, Windows, Apple, Intel, News, etc.
well maybe not News...
Will it boot up TRSDOS or CP/M?
I like my machines old school.
Real old.
Wish I had moderator points to mod this up to out of sight.
y'all
Other than that, what is the point of running XP on a Mac/Intel box? To be cool?
So that we can play CounterStrike.
You can run Windows XP on a cheap x86 box and spare yourself the hassle and cost! (Who would've thought!?!)
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So we can stop seeing this argument every couple of days?
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... are we gonna be running Windows on a Mac, or Mac(OSX) on a PC?
(or linux on a mac but with pc hardware.. but you could do that before, only now it's on x86 hardware.. so it'd be a x86 linux distro but running on a mac... er.. aghh.. my head hurts..)
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- Will Windows or Linux be ported to these new MacTel boxes first?
Wake me up when I can run BSD on one of these new macs.
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I cannot believe you didn't call in sick! You're making us wait till you come home from work? Where are your geek priorities?!? ;)
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I can definitely help you - just pack it up and ship it over to me and I'll get right to work on getting XP to boot on it.
My address is as follows:
Free iMac for the Sandtiger
P.O. Box 733-t
Chicago, Il 60613
I'll let you know how it goes once it arrives.
Thanks!
P.S.: Please update the RAM before sending it - 512 for XP just isn't enough.
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Dewey, what part of this looks like authorities should be involved?
I was thinking of awarding him a medallion for "ETERNAL VIRGINITY".
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Wake me up when it can run Windows RG.
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Would like to be able to run Windows apps the way OS X runs Classic Apps, now;
. . . Mac OS X doesn't run Classic Apps now (not on the intel version). And that's exactly how I'd like to be able to run Windows apps on OS X.
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