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Bounty For Booting XP on the Intel iMac

An anonymous reader writes "The race is on. You can try to get the bounty for booting Windows XP on iMac. At this moment there is $2773 waiting for the winner. However several people have brickified their iMacs when playing with EFI." I imagine those tech support calls are hysterical ;)

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  1. Re:I'm sorry by FidelCatsro · · Score: 5, Funny

    I don't know sounded fun so I tried it .
    But a little boot on the iMac's stand ,then proceeded to use it to kick a Windows XP CD around the room.
    Unfortunately due to a technicality , I can't claim the prize money.
    I assume though I am the first person to boot windows with an iMac

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  2. Re:Brickified? by minginqunt · · Score: 5, Funny


    Enbrickened.

    Fracked.

    Made to exhibit a Brickish form.

    Relegated to brickhood.

    Elevated to the Platonic ideal of "Brick".

    Invited to join the elite group of formerly functioning Von Neumann machines now inculcated in the eternal, static realm of Brick. (FFVNMNIRSRB: pron. Fuff-van-man-IRS-Rub)

    DEAD BRICKED.

    Seriously, kids. Do try this at home. It is big, it is clever. And it will give us a laugh. Let's see you try and do that with your $3000 Alienware rig.

    Muhahahahaha.

  3. Re:Brickified? by TheRealMindChild · · Score: 5, Funny

    Not to be too picky, but the correct word, I believe, is "bricked". Although whether there's an actual dictionary definiton of the word in this context I do not know.

    This is a new low for a grammar nazi... trying to correct a word that isn't even a word. Brilliant.

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  4. Re:Brickified? by i.r.id10t · · Score: 5, Funny

    That Mac isn't dead... its pining for the fjords..

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  5. Re:Brickified? by mjpaci · · Score: 5, Funny

    embricken

    It could be one of those detached (or whatever it's called) German verbs...

    Wann hast du deine iMac emgebricken?

    Die iMac verbindung bricken em.