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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."

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  1. Re:....aaaaand? by Darth+Maul · · Score: 0, Troll

    What a great analogy. Thank you! I just don't get it either. I mean, all these people speculating about putting Windows on it. Why? Honestly, why? OS X is leaps ahead of Windows and provides a brilliant computing experience. You'd have to be absolutely loony to buy a beautiful Apple and put Windows on it.

    If you really have to use Windows, too, then just put that on your cheap-o Dell and keep the Apple with OS X. The Mac experience is the perfect combination of hardware and software.

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  2. Just wait for VMware / OSX by Werrismys · · Score: 0, Troll
    It makes absolutely no sense to ruin perfectly good hardware by installing XP in dual boot configuration. Half the machine would be borked 90% of the time. I doubt anyone buys these as gaming machines.

    Just wait for VMware/OSX to come out, then you can have snapshots and whatnot and even Winblows becomes somewhat manageable. Plus, any serious fuckup or new Windoze virus will not ruin the whole machine, just the sandbox, that can be repaired by selecting "VM-Snapshot-Revert."

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  3. Re:Some clarification by Gilmoure · · Score: 1, Troll

    Would like to be able to run Windows apps the way OS X runs Classic Apps, now; double click a Windows app or file, Windows starts up and then goes away and then the app runs in it's own window. Do not want to see Windows desktop.

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  4. Could someone please... by Mad+Ogre · · Score: 1, Troll

    Explain the advantage or even the point, of buying a machine that costs upwards to 4 times the cost of a regular PC to run Windows XP? Because I'd really like to understand that. If you want to impress me, show me OSX on a Pocket PC.

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