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Intel Macs May Boot Windows XP After All

Posted by Hemos on from the the-two-shall-meet dept.

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."

12 of 486 comments (clear)

  1. no Windows Server 2003 Enterprise by Erik_ · · Score: 3, Funny

    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... :-)

  2. ....aaaaand? by pspalmer · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.....

  3. sure xp probably won't by jack_call · · Score: 4, Funny

    ... but vista should http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10794396/from/RS.3/

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  4. mother of all articles by revery · · Score: 4, Funny

    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...

  5. But will it boot TRSDOS or CP/M? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    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

  6. Re:Does anyone think these articles are nuts? by bitkari · · Score: 5, Funny

    Other than that, what is the point of running XP on a Mac/Intel box? To be cool?

    So that we can play CounterStrike.

  7. Will somebody please just *try* it? by porkchop_d_clown · · Score: 4, Funny

    So we can stop seeing this argument every couple of days?

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  8. Re:Place your bets please! Linux or Windows? by Dolly_Llama · · Score: 4, Funny

    - 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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  9. Re:Place your bets please! Linux or Windows? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    The joke was on life support when it was born, but you just killed it.

  10. Re:Mine came this morning . . . by tf23 · · Score: 4, Funny

    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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  11. Re:Place your bets please! Linux or Windows? by Just+Some+Guy · · Score: 5, Funny
    A friend once said "the net is large enough that somebody won't get the joke". Therefore, always use a smiley when you're telling a joke. :-)

    Poor Willy. For want of an emoticon, Shakespeare's works were lost. If only he could have written:

    To be, or not to be: that is the question. :~(

    Just think of the treasures we've discarded because humans can't recognize irony or humor!

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  12. Re:I hereby award you... by Lord+Kano · · Score: 3, Funny

    I was thinking of awarding him a medallion for "ETERNAL VIRGINITY".

    LK

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