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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 ;)
... booting XP on a Mac is completely perverse! Why buy an expensive piece of hardware and replace its closed, proprietary operating system with another?
"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." -- George Orwell
n00bs, i swear.
Why would you want to?
But certainly linux will run on it if nothing else
If running Windows is prohibited by the BIOS, how does your moronic brain imagine Linux will run?
Fucktard.
There is no reason why shifting into reverse at 80 MPH should completely brickify a car. Result in speed loss? Yeah. Mean you have to start the engine again? That's fine. But render a car utterly incapable of being restored to a usable state by the user? Absolutely not. We're not talking about pouring sugar in the gas tank here, or driving it off a bridge, we're just talking about experimenting with the subsystem that adjusts gearing ratios in order to try to, legitimately, get into fourth gear.
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ps: I've never seen it spelt like that before. Tires? Is that what you're talking about?
It's just like how a 205/55R15 tire will not fit on a 17"x5 rim...
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Windows prohibits itself from booting on EFI (by not supporting it)
From dictionary.com:
prohibit:
Pronunciation Key (pr-hbt) tr.v. prohibited, prohibiting, prohibits
1. To forbid by authority: Smoking is prohibited in most theaters. See Synonyms at forbid.
I don't think prohibits is the right word for the job. That would say that Windows EXPRESSLY disallows EFI. It doesn't, it just doesn't understand it. Simply say:
3.) Microsoft Windows XP does not support EFI.
It is also good to note a version since Windows Vista will support it. Don't want to look stupid now, do you?
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From dictionary.com
forbid:
Pronunciation Key (fr-bd, fôr-) tr.v. forbade, (-bd, -bd) or forbad (-bd) forbidden, (-bdn) or forbid forbidding, forbids
1. To command (someone) not to do something: I forbid you to go.
2. To command against the doing or use of (something); prohibit: forbid smoking on trains.
Windows XP does not forbid itself to run. You people keep saying the wrong word for what you mean. It's incompatible. Windows XP does not say, "NO! I DON'T want to play with your new age character EFI." instead it says, "Hey man, who the hell are you and can we please talk about interrupts already?"
Big difference.
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Why the fsck would anyone want to run WINDOWS on his or her beautiful Mac? I know I will be moderated as a troll for this, but I mean, OMGWTF!!!! The reason you use a Mac or Linux (or some other alternative) machine is that you have decided NOT to use Windows! Please explain to me, in plain language, why anyone with a normal, untwisted mind would use WIndows on a Mac.