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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."

2 of 486 comments (clear)

  1. Why don't they boot something good... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ..like 2003 Server. XP is a step back. 2003 is lean, mean, locked-down and can play all the games and multimedia you want.

  2. I bought a Mac to by a_greer2005 · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    GET AWAY FROM WINDOWS!

    I understand that dual booting because you can is nice, but I would much rather see Apple and MS work together on a wine-like semi-seemless solution that would allow the use of apps like Visio Pro in OSX