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."

Comments

But will it boot TRSDOS or CP/M?

[Anonymous Coward]

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

Re:Does anyone think these articles are nuts?

[bitkari]

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

So that we can play CounterStrike.

Re:Place your bets please! Linux or Windows?

[Anonymous Coward]

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

Re:Place your bets please! Linux or Windows?

[Just Some Guy]

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!