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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."
While I can understand that people want to play games and such, I don't get why you'd want to boot into windows on these new macs. Anybody who wants to play games that badly more than likely already has a windows system to game on, and with the price of PC hardware through the floor lately, it would seem a waste to spend the extra money on an Apple computer only to install windows on it. Since I made the switch to OS X, I haven't missed windows, and anything that I've needed a replacement for apps I used in windows, I've found elsewhere. So other than the "I did it just to do it" aspect, what is the point?
I don't think I'd run Windows on it unless I had some urgent need to run a Windows only app. I hope this debate dies soon and there's a port for VMWare on the new Macs.
I might know what I'm talkin' about, but then again, this is Slashdot...
Why would you want to run the worst operating system ever on a mac? that just defeats the purpose. The only two reasons why windows is so popular is because: 1. most people do not no better. 2. games Which are both terrible reasons for sticking to windows. Now if i could get Mac OSX working on a pc....
Someome please, for the love of all that is holy explain to me why you would spend that kind of money to get intel hardware and then boot Windows XP? If you want to boot windows XP, AMD is your friend. Price AND Performance crowns are with AMD.
Oh, you want to run some windows application? Isn't that what vmware and virtual pc are for? Why bother with the dual booting?
The ultimate network admin tool needs HELP!
And obvious. Who really cares about Mac hardware? It's all the same components anyway. Is Tropicana OJ any different than the supermarket brand? No, same orange growers different labels and price tags. So why pay $1200 for Apple's hardware when a $500 Dell will do just fine? And don't tell me that Apple uses flux capacitors and so thats why it's twice the price! It's all bullshit. If Linux (an open source product) can run on multitudes of hardware, why not the Mac? Even Sun has the decency to let you run Solaris x86 on ANY PC you want.
Because Apple loves to play head games. They get you to believe that their precious hardware is somehow different than the rest of the world's simply because the box is translucent, fashionable and doesn't need a second mouse button. My PC doesn't need to be fashionable. Hey Jobs! It's obvious by now that you REALLY want people to move to Mac OS. Obvious enough that you moved your flagship system to the same architecture as your arch rival. So why don't you just sell me the damn OS (you know you want to) and let me pick my own hardware buddy! This ain't AS/400. Stop with the games. I'll make my own Apple experience with my own hardware. Capiche?