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WinXP on a Mac, Hoax?
Brill writes "Ars Technica is reporting that a member of the 'WinXP on Mac' forums called narf2006 may have succeeded at the impossible. He's submitted his solution to get XP on an Intel Mac, for the $12,000 prize, but for now the only proof available is a blurry Flickr collection of photos that could be faked with virtual PC. His reputation on the forums however is strong, and he's already calling for testers." We've had people write in to say this has been announced a hoax on the contest page. The contest page is, of course, down due to bandwidth reasons. Engadget's conversation about this announcement has several theories on how this may have been faked. What's the verdict? Real or Fake?
Doesn't he have to explain how he did it to collect the prize? Am I missing something?
tell me it was not obvious that something like this would happen.
...Amit Singh from IBM and kernelthread.com (slashdotted 16 times for excellent technical articles on various bits of internals of Apple hardware and Mac OS X) has his own legacy boot solution as well. From a rejected submission:
It appears that Amit Singh of IBM Almaden Research Center, of kernelthread.com and author of Mac OS X Internals, has devised a method to allow legacy, or BIOS-based, booting on Intel-based Macs, which they're calling "BAMBIOS". This means operating systems that currently only support legacy booting, such as many Linux distributions that don't yet support EFI, or things like Windows XP and the forthcoming Windows Vista (the 32-bit version of which will lack EFI support), will now be able to run on Intel-based Macs without modification (and completely legally). There is also another solution from "narf2006", described here and shown in this flickr set of photos. narf2006's solution is awaiting verification by Colin for the $12,000 pot. Time to get that MacBook Pro you've been waiting on for the best of both worlds, everyone...
So even if narf2006's solution isn't real, Amit's solution most certainly is, since he has a great deal of credibility. One way or another, we'll all be able to boot Windows directly on our Intel-based Macs.
This will be great news for people interested in Windows gaming on an Intel-based Mac (who really need the direct video access) and/or people who just want to do it NOW; however, a virtualization solution running under Mac OS X, such as VMware or Parallels, will be the real holy grail for most users. Most people don't want/need/care about the highest graphics and I/O performance; just the ability to run Windows side-by-side with Mac OS X at a speed that is more than usable, and to also have some capability to seamlessly share things like clipboards and files between the environments (as a nice VM environment would most certainly do). Not to mention not having to reboot.
In any case, even dual booting will be a welcome capability. It remains to be seen how convoluted the process is...
Also, I just spoke with Colin Nederkoorn (the guy running the contest) moments ago, and narf2006's solution has NOT been submitted to him yet. He said that narf2006 said he's "cleaning it up" and will be submitting it "later this week". So, no one, including Colin, has actually seen this solution working yet. Also, he apparently hasn't been in communication with Amit on the BAMBIOS solution as yet...
..... One of the better Photoshop jobs I've seen lately.
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simple answer.... YES
First post.
If I sorted out the bits of magic to get WinXP up and running on a Mac, I don't think I would post how to the outside world until *after* I collected my bounty. No shock at the lack of details here.
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Yeah, the man's reputation is strong. But those are pretty bad shots. Until he releases more details about how he's actually doing this. I'd have to say fake.
For US$12,000, I'd take a day off and fly out to the contest judge's place to show them in person.
Why is this so difficult?
but I'd much rather see darWINE working well, or VMWare/VirtualPC running Windows at nearly native speed, or even some significant speedups that make QEMU nearly native speed. A Virtual Windows without the slowdown of emulation would be really nice; on the other hand, I have no desire whatsoever to actually boot Windows on a Mac. That's like putting 87 octane gas in a formula 1 car! ;-)
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... the software tells YOU how to operate!
Why is related to my thought:: I guess the question in my mind is, why? I didn't purchase my wonderful Mac just to load it with some malware called Windows (3.1, 98, ME, XP, 2K, Vista, and whatever else I'm missing). I thought the whole existance of a Mac was fluid simply because of how well the GUI meshed with the hardware... so to introduce Windows... is... *shudder*... to operate in the klunky Windows way?
Well, other thoughts? What's the point here, anyhow? Besides games, and maybe some MS development stuff, why run Windows on a PC??
Let's put an insecure OS on a beautiful machine and see if we can break it. Of course, this is only a lead in to making software that will be put on a CD to destroy a system if left in the CD drive and the user is told it will do something positive to their machine. OK, it will require social engineering and a upset worker in a software company to put this on a CD. OK, there are no IT people that get upset at company they work for. What was I thinking...
It amazes me that the named personed has not even submitted a public release on how to run WinXP on Mac and everyone has already jumped onto the "zOMG its a photochop" bandwagon. At some point he has send his instructions to the person holding the pot and if it works then he wins the money while everyone else gets the instructions. In this day and age I find it rather disappointing that the first knee jerk reaction is always one of negativity. Slandering this guy's reputation in every forum won't get XP to run any sooner on a mac. I certainly hope that if this guy really did find the solution that Slashdot, Engadget, Digg and every other site dragging this guy's rep through the mud will run an apology.
IIRC Apple doesn't care if you're running some Microsoft OS on Mac. After all, they're selling hardware...
Don't get me wrong, I'm not dismissing the performance but the "succeeded at the impossible" from the blurb just doesn't sound "accurate" to me. It should be more difficult to run Intel MacOS X on a PC box than the opposite.
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The main problem I see with this one is Virtual PC. I can do the exact same thing with my iMac G5 at home by simply starting up VPC and booting XP.
While I'm on a rant... Is there some unwritten rule that says all pictures of things somewhat exciting must be taken at VGA quality on a cell phone?
I'm probably stating the obvious here, but in my opinion the opposite of this would be much more useful. Being able to put Mac OSX on non-proprietary PC hardware would be much more useful than installing windows on a pricey Mac. I would like the ability to poke around in OSX, but I'm certainly not going to throw down the cash for a Mac.
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Just see http://karlsbakk.net/fun/windowsxpbootsonamac.jpg
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- They stop working when you open Windows.
...until we have a man on the moon.
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We all know Windows won't run on a Mac! Totally incompatible architecture... I mean Apple would have to be stupid enough to use Intel chipsets... oh wait...
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i've loved slashdot for a long time. yes the self-conscious righteous OSS rants and all. ...but this is just ridiculous. windows xp on a mac....seriously...
WHO CARES!?!
Who would put up 12,000 bucks for something that's not really needed? I mean, sure, hacking the hardware to get it to run is kinda cool and all...but 12 grand?!?! Is it THAT important to buy Mac hardware to put Windows on?
As people have said many many times before, why buy a Porsche and put a Yugo engine in it? Yeah yeah....you use XP at work and blah blah blah and when you get home you might want to run blah blah blah so it would be nice if you could reboot into XP blah blah blah.
But fricken $12,000?
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There's no way for that one to be real. The screen is overlapping the edge of the machine itself. He definitely needs some hard proof (or better pictures).
I'm a level 60 Warrior on WoW. I battle those nasty night elves and live the high life in Orgrimmar.
Oh, you mean real life?
But seriously, and related to the first part of my post...
I would love to have a Mac for browsing, mail and multimedia editing, and to also dual-boot into XP for gaming. (Yes, I know WoW comes on Mac, but many games do not).
the only proof available is a blurry Flickr collection of photos that could be faked with virtual PC
Virtual PC?! Screw that - he could have faked those with a full-screen iPhoto view of a screenshot taken from a regular PC.
I'm not trying to say he wasn't successful, I'm just trying to say that the story submitter is looking for far too complicated of an explanation.
It's not as though it's a hard hoax to do.
1. Go to a Windows box. Take a screen shot.
2. Open the screenshot on your iMac. Display it full screen.
3. Take a picture.
I mean, he hasn't posted a video of him using the computer and his mousing syncing up with the screen, right? Just a blurry photo. So, that proves basically nothing. I'm not saying he absolutely didn't do it, just that a photo doesn't count for much.
It's an interesting academic exercise to go native, but who cares?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/32436196@N00/11097774 4/in/photostream/
:P
Interesting thought there - VGA drivers arent installed now if it was a fresh install right?
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PowerMacChris says:
oh-oh-owned!
Windows XP has a 640x480 resoulition on GUI install
Posted 3 days ago.
Paul Stamatiou Pro User says:
^ No. I've installed XP with 1280x1024.
Posted 2 days ago.
digitalpiracy says:
No he's right - you can set an option in the unattend.sif file so the resolution jumps to whatever you like once its installed the VGA drivers, but this section always runs at 640x480
Posted 2 days ago. "
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What next?? NES Emulators on the mac platform? When will the insanity stop?
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... that this is not a hoax! Windows XP boots on a Mac! http://www.mathcaddy.com/windowsxpbootsonamac!!!!1 /
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Turn of events: 1) someone posts some (blurry) pictures (4) of a WinXP install screen on an iMac to flickr 2) forums world-wide respond with "d00d! its a total fake! look at those pixels!" and "why can't a guy who knows how to do this use a camera? fake!" and "OMFG hwd u do that? cant be done - fake!" which results in this fine slashdot news story, based entirely on blurry photos and forum jockeys. seriously guys, we'll know someone's done it when the pot is claimed - until then, it just isn't news... daveschroeder posted a better written, more informative piece than the article he was replying to. Luke got the same uninformed forum jockey BS when he bootstrapped linux on the Treo 650.
I know Apple wants to maintain it's image and all, but I always felt that if they marketed their machines as the "run anything" computer, they would grab a nice chunk of the market. Instead of the pure Apple machine they might go the other direction with their hardware and call it a "blank slate" fit for whatever OS you want to put on it... go where YOU want to go kind of computer.
It seems pretty damn apparent that people want a dual boot Windows/Mac... There's demand there, but no company wants to risk it because it might affect other portions of their business. Oh well, baby steps I guess.
...is why anyone would want to run Windows on an Apple machine anyhow. I mean, don't the majority of the Slashdot users hate Windows, and wouldn't running windows on such a nice piece of hardware that comes pre-installed with some pretty damn good OS software totally defeat the purpose of spending somewhere in the neighborhood of $2000 for a computer in the first place?
Am I the only one who thinks installing Windows on a Mac is like putting an 8-Track player in a BMW?
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there's a lot of noise, over on the ars forums, about why Apple may want to prevent XP and foghorn (vista) from running on Mac hardware. I think it's the opposite. Apple won't try to hard to prevent windows operating systems from running on Mac hardware, because Apple are, primarily, a hardware company - they want to sell macs. In fact, if people are buying macs intending to install windows, Apple may hope to use that as a bate and switch tactic. I think they're more likely to attempt to prevent people from running OS X on bog standard beige PCs (or Dells or whatever) because that could hurt Mac sales.
Ok let me get this right. 99% of all /. talk trash about M$ all day. Windows is hell and Bill Gates is the devil..... Now there is a big geek contest to see who can get winXP to run on a mac? Am I missing something? Is this just for bragging rights to see who can do it first or is everyone actually wanting to install and run XP on mac?
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This article talks about a project called BAMBIOS, BAMBIOS emulates a bios on the intel-based Mac's. This enables non-EFI OS's to run.
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I'd rather run MacOSX on a non-apple computer than run windows on an apple based intel personally. Those things cost to much compared to regular PCs I can build.
...VMWare to come out with their VMWare Workstation (or even the player) for the Mac. Even VirtualPC, if/when it ever comes to the Intel Mac, should run Windows "well enough" for everything I would do with a PC (short of gaming, which wouldn't be very useful on a portable or a mini anyway).
I'm becoming more and more a fan of virtualization; why deal with dual booting and configuring the disk when you can just run the client OS as a task in the main operating system. Also, if you trash your copy of Windows, just restore it from a snapshot or recreate it from a "good" image.
But, OTOH, kudos to him if he has in fact gotten it to work.
Why do you want to put a crappy OS on MAC hardware? If you want an intel machine just go buy one.....
Why would you want to run Windows XP on an Apple computer? You might just as well watch a scratchy old worn copy-of-a-copy VHS cassette on a brand spanking new high-definition digital-ready TV set; or go to a posh restaurant, all done up in a tux and bow tie, and order sausage, egg and chips with brown sauce.
You could probably do it by using elilo to bootstrap ntldr.exe, but this is a gross oversimplification and I have not thought it through fully.
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I'm still having trouble getting winXP to install on my pc sata drive... maybe narf2006 can give me a hand.
Im all for this happening but... has anyone looked at the photos? The screen is on top of the bottom right cornner of the machine.
I know this is a bit off topic, but has anyone tried Solaris x86? It would probably be more interesting to me to be able to dual boot Solaris/OSX than Windows XP.
I can't believe nobody ever got the old PPC builds of Windows NT to boot on a PPC Mac?
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The simplest way to fake this would be to use a mac monitor with a pc. no photoshopping necessary
Think about it
Why would people call these photos a hoax? What does it matter if he hasn't posted the solution yet? Obviously, wait until he posts a solution, and then judge.
All of you leachers calling this a hoax are super lame. Instead of wasting Internet bandwidth with stupid comments on Slashdot, try downloading Intel's EFI starter kit, and implement yourself. You don't even need a Mac, except to polish off the EFI boot environment; you can develop the entire BIOS emulation without a Mac.
I've been implementing a BIOS compatibility layer, and those photos are definitely legitimate; they show BIOS call traces.
I hope that he sells his solution. People making comments like this don't deserve the gracious effort of others.
...and badly at that...take a look at the "Real VGA!" photo...thats pretty clearly a BAD! Bad! photoshoping...
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What idiot wants to run Windows on a Mac? Hell, I don't even want to run Windows on a PC!
"The more prohibitions there are, The poorer the people will be" -- Lao Tse
This "XP on a Mac" thing is currently a hypothesis. It is something that has been reasoned as possible, and now has been tested one time. Provided that the tester kept meticulous notes, others should be able to follow those notes to reproduce the experiment, and report their results to the media. The more times the experiment is successful, the more it can be described as a theory or law.
However, since the current state of knowledge on this subject is thin, it is just as likely that the way to get Windows XP running on a Mac requires divine intervention. One could then describe a Mac running XP as "Intelligently Designed."
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iMacs are all-in-one computer and monitor together. So it's either a G5 iMac running an emulator (and from looking at all the flickr photos, it's got to be more than that), or a Photochop, or it's legit.
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...but I wish they'd concentrate more on getting Mac OS working on a PC. That to me is much more interesting that getting Windows working on a mac
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The list of contributors to the fund is available on their site -- Apple is not one of them (obviously!).
...from the unleaked internal memo at the Cupertino headquarters.
Similar to the hardware on the shelves that bore the sticker 'Intel Inside', Apple was going to ship its units emblazoned with the words 'Idiot proof'. But now that somebody has managed to install XP on their expensive but well-engineered hardware, they nixed the sticker idea. Swear to God. Or Jobs.
...and then I installed FlyAKiteOSX. Now I'm really confused :(
I think a lot of the hate towards windows comes from having to use it for work. For many, being able to run the windows apps that we need to from time to time, and OSX the rest of the time, is actually freeing us from windows :) get it?
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How does he sleep at night? On a huge pile of money.
It's rare that you're presented with a knob whose only two positions are Make History and Flee Your Glorious Destiny.
Pretty good job on most of the photos but http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=110650771& context=photostream&size=o is without a question a fake. The viewer would not be any farther away from the top right hand corner of the monitor than you are from the bottom right hand corner but image extends beyond bottom right hand corner. Porportions of the screen are all out of whack. If it where real, why would you not move the monitor that is facing the Imac out of the way of the picture. Unless of course if you were projecting an image from one monitor to the other?????
If this is an obvious fake, why are they looking for three owners of each Intel Mac model to see what it works with?
You have to use Windows for the vast majority of computer games, and for certain other software applications. You don't have to like it.
Since VirtualPC doesn't support 3D, why not just have him post a screenshot of a 3D program running?
The prize site ( http://winxponmac.com/ ) is 403'ing. Maybe the prizegivers are worried? :)
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WTF? Someone potentially shows a really sick hack and all people can do is bitch about how it's "obviously" photoshopped and man, who'd be stupid enough to try this?! Jesus Christ on a pogo stick, where has the hacker ethos gone? How about withholding judgment until we get solid confirmation one way or another. Since the forums got pwned, we'll have to wait and see if step-by-step instructions are forthcoming so it can be reproduced. If they don't show up in a week, or they constantly "delayed" then we can collectively denounce him as a fraud.
And as for why do this to begin with? How about because we can! Sheesh. Getting things that aren't supposed to work to work is part and parcel of being a true hacker. It's breaking the pigopolists' rules and doing things with hardware/software you bought that they never intended. Lighten up, guys. It's cool. If this is real, it's definitely a sick hack and we should salute him.
I hate you and your stupid fucking redundant car analogy - the fifteen thousandth in the last month, by the way. Nice job being a repetitive asshole.
Here's an analogy for you: How's about I buy your face and put my fist in it?
When the iBooks are released (or are they Macbooks now? -- whatever...), I will be able to work on my XP Machine (no remote desktop on OSX, or is there? NOT VNC!), and then reboot and 'play' on my OSX Machine :)
Yup, can't wait!
The price is always right if someone else is paying.
Engineering:
These aren't niche needs. EVERY MODERN MACHINE was designed using one of applications above.
Games:
Some of these are old, but they're all still very popular.
Whether we like it or not, there is a great need to run Windows applications that can't be satisfied by WINE or VirtualPC (usually because of 3d graphics performance). Getting Windows running on an Intel Mac isn't just a hacking challenge; it's a fantastic opportunity at creating a machine that satisfies all needs.
Take a look at the over all picture.
Follow the line at the botton of the monitor and the line along the right hand side.
Now notice how the bottom left corner looks pulled away from the monitor also notice how the line at the bottom of the screen actually disappears under the blue windows screen (along with it attendant shadow) The same happens to the right hand side. the edge of the monitor and the shadow being cast over it also dissappears under the blue windows loading screen.
If you look at the blue windows screen itself it has a ever so slight shadow on it (a darkening of the blue color) on the right hand side. However the shadow's shape is not continuous with the showdow being cast over the monitor's edge.
As for my skills never claimed to have any documented ones, I just have a good eye. My eye tells me there is a wrongness to the image and further exploration as documented above explains the wrongness.
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Damn straight. In fact, there'd be no bait-and-switch about it... once you've bought Apple's hardware, you've already done what they want you to do.
Apple's people have in fact already laid it out bare : they are not going to support running Windows on their hardware. They're not going to do anything special to stop you from doing so, they're just not going to help, and they're not going to help if you trash your machine trying to do so. They probably aren't ( without some serious, um, incentive ) going to help Microsoft help you run Windows, either... um, do OEMs have to do something special to market their computers as being supported by Windows? Apple wouldn't do that, if there was something there to do.
Anyway, back to the point : both Apple and Intel have stated that the one thing you won't be able to do is run OS X on non-Apple hardware. Well, obviously that statement has to be refined to mean non-hacked, supportable, updateable current-version release-quality OS X to be true right now, but I suppose with all that, it's true. But if you want to hack up a BIOS emulator or something to run a copy of Windows on your Apple? What does it matter to Apple as long as it doesn't incur support costs ? They still made their sale, and you could still use that system to connect to iTMS... fine by them.
Which is great. Some day we'll all be able to run OS X, and at the end of the day if we just _have_ to play some game that stupidly is made only for Windows, I could still manage to do so without owning more than one machine.
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What's all that read DCHS stuff? That happens normally when you install XP? Sorry, I haven't in a while, and I don't remember that.
Gawd, WHY?
> No, because which is faster is a very complicated answer.
No fanboi it isn't. Comparing a Windows PC to a Sun Niagra based server would be complicated, comparing a PC from Apple running typical desktop loadsets under OS X to basically the same loadsets under Windows XP on the same hardware isn't complicated at all. Encode some video, run Microsoft Office through some timed task lists, script some compute intensive Photoshop transformations, etc. If one OS is faster at all of the tasks it is the clearcut winner, if as is more likely, each excel at some tasks and falter at others this will inform customers which is more appropriate for their intended loads. Of course if the intended load doesn't imply long waits under either OS the choice of which to boot can be made purely on personal preference.
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This is where Xen support for Mac OS X would rock. With a VT-enabled CPU (the coming Core Duos should be) it'd be possible to run Windows and Mac OS X side by side. Xen can also handle all the legacy BIOS emulation, etc.
Sounds nice, eh? Like you said, potentially just a hotkey to switch. It'd be harder to do if you wanted accelerated 3D etc but I doubt it's impossible. I'd be surprised if the TPM chip got in the way either.
For this to work really well it'd need support from Apple, and alas that pretty much means it won't happen thanks to the joys of Not Invented Here (TM).
Once again, the veracity of digital images is in question under the term "Photoshopping."
Notice how no one says "GIMPing" or "GIMPed pictures"? Has Adobe's product become so ubiquitous that it is in danger of loosing its trademark status?
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only 3 grammar mistakes on that Apple webpage.
Good jorb, everyone.
You probably don't understand the expression "bait and switch". It refers to a deceptive (and I think illegal) business practice of luring in customers with a fake ad (probably a ridiculously cheap price) - the "bait" - but selling them only some other product because the great deal is "out of stock" - the "switch".
The keyword here is "support." Apple does not "support" running Windows, or any OS besides Mac OS X, on its hardware. Why they chose this route is very easy to understand.
When Apple designed the MacIntel architecture, it started with a clean sheet of paper, including only the hardware and firmware that would be useful to a Mac OS customer. The result was a simple, legacy-free design that avoids much of the baggage that the x86 world has carried for over 20 years.
To support Windows, Apple would have to include a legacy BIOS layer, VGA BIOS, and who knows what else. This would complicate the hardware from the get-go. Second, Apple would have to either A) License Windows from Microsoft, and include it with every Macintel (a very expensive proposition) or B) answer dozens of AppleCare calls from users as they try to install WinXP, configure appropriate drivers, and get a registration key (also a very expensive proposition, especially for a company that does not already have Windows-trained call center techs.
I know of no mainstream vendors who support home users with a dual-boot configuration. And very few will support even corporate customers who dual-boot.
The US free market: two halves of a government-granted duopoly are free to set the market price.
If you are so sure they said it would be impossible, then tell us where did they said it.
The parent message is referring to well-reported statements by Apple's Jobs and Schiller, who both said Apple would do nothing to prevent people from running Windows on Intel-based Macs. See this link: http://news.com.com/2100-1014_3-5733756-2.html
As the article states, Schiller's words were, "That doesn't preclude someone from running it on a Mac. They probably will. We won't do anything to preclude that."
You just need to give him $12,000 in return.
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So as a test I started XP in VPC n my Powerbook in full screen mode and went to my new MacBook Pro started Apple Desktop remote loged into my powerbook and viewed the other machine in fullscreen mode, and there is is XP running on a Intel Mac its that simple, I could take a screen shot or all the phony pictures or video I want. Lets hope this is not the case here.
like hiring a Supermodel to wash the dishes.
like buying a BMW and filling up at ARCO.
like renting out a Mansion for your cats.
And if he's faking, he won't be able to hide. Anybody know more details on narf2006?
I have yet to find a program on Windows that isn't directly ported to the Mac or that I couldn't find a comparable "replica" on the Mac.
PRODAS (Projectile Rocket and Ordinance Design and Analysis Software)
Don't know if you are trolling or serious, I am an aerospace engineer wrapping up my masters and I use this piece of software regularly to do 6DOF ballistics and trajectory modeling. There **are** no substitutes for a mac. Similar programs exist for radar modeling, etc. that have no Mac equivalent.
Besides the key apps that target a small but deep-pocketed audience (PRODAS license: $6000) (hence no motivation to port - small audiences, target 1 popular platform) you have gamers: a very large audience with smaller pocketbooks, but you have volume. Gamers want to customize their systems - they can't do that currently with a mac. Now with the move to Intel hardware, Apple has the chance to change that trend. We will see...
I couldn't care less about booting Windows - I just want to be able to RUN it (or the brain-dead apps I'm sometimes forced to work with). Dual-booting is a pain in the ass - who the hell wants to run only in windows with no OSX available?
Give me basically a natively fast virtual machine. I don't ever want to boot my mac into Windows. Just let me run it like VPC on steroids when I have to, and you've got a sale.
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Just wait until the Zapruda film comes out, then we'll know for sure . . . . (!)
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I would be too embarassed to actually select "Windows" on the boot loader of my Mac.
I do get all these people needing it for their jobs etc but I think what we need is some sweet virtualization to run applications side by side not have to boot - reboot and back again.
Now notice how the bottom left corner looks pulled away from the monitor also notice how the line at the bottom of the screen actually disappears under the blue windows screen (along with it attendant shadow) The same happens to the right hand side. the edge of the monitor and the shadow being cast over it also dissappears under the blue windows loading screen.
If you look at the blue windows screen itself it has a ever so slight shadow on it (a darkening of the blue color) on the right hand side. However the shadow's shape is not continuous with the showdow being cast over the monitor's edge.
welcome to the world of chromatic abberation.
you can demonstrate this effect with glasses. open up a terminal window and display some red, white, and blue text on a black background. now angle your glasses vs the display (eg, look through the narrow part of your lens, then pan through to the thicker parts) and see how the blue and red text move up and down while the white text stays.
you may also notice, looking through glasses, "shadowing" of blue boxes against other backgrounds, especially white and red.
this is what you get from cheap cameras (eg cellphones). good cameras with good lenses won't do that.
chromatic abberation test
you won't see the effect unless you're wearing glasses though.
Why would you do this instead of buying a cheaper, non-Mac laptop and putting OS X on it?
I can't believe that Microsoft wouldn't care about running Windows on an Intel Mac, but Apple would care about running OS X on anything other than an Intel Mac. But, if I'm wrong about that, I guess I just answered my own question.
Don't thank God, thank a doctor!
So this guy hasn't proved that this is not a PowerPC iMac G5 running Virtual PC with Windows XP full-screen (including the some of the installation process).
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He hasn't taken a screen shot of the Device Manager to show us how the hardware components appear.
Not to be dismissive, but it would be nice to see more proof. I know there are screen shots with the installation appearing to occur with some feedback in an EFI shell, but that doesn't mean it actually finished. He could have had the installation appear, but used Virtual PC on a PowerPC iMac G5 to make it appear as if it finished.
Without posting or responding to messages about how he has done this or when he will give more details about the CSM that he programmed, it makes people more skeptical.
I mean, I could just do something similar like this:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/superrcat/sets/72057
It would likely be trivial to port PRODAS to Mac OS X. I think PRODAS is definitely an example of software which hasn't been ported to Mac OS X, as opposed to software which can't be ported to Mac OS X.
The bits on the bus go on and off... on and off... on and off...
Schrodinger's Cat
Not saying that _you_ would do something that isn't legal, but most people that would just "like the ability to poke around in OSX" would probably just download it from the Internet instead of buying it...
Hey, it's not like you're acctually using it, you're just learning more about it so that you one day might buy Apple hardware, so although technically not legal is actually good for Apple... or so people will justify it.
Then at least some of them will find themselfs booting into MacOS more and more, but still, you already got something working, so why buy something which is already there... you'll just wait for the next time you buy hardware, or for the next large(ish) upgrade of MacOS...
Then when it's time for you to get new hardware you'll find that although Apple computers look good, there are still a few things wrong and/or you feel that you can get a better solution by building a computer yourself; or just upgrade the one you've already got, and/or just pick some parts from the one you've got. So no new fancy Apple hardware.
Then it's time for that large upgrade of MacOS... well, since you can't buy MacOS for just any PC you'll feel that why support a company that doesn't support you, so technically, you'll think, you are doing a great thing by not buying the latest MacOS, as that makes you a protester which will change the world... "force" Apple into releasing MacOS for generic hardware...
What if they then one day do release it for generic hardware? Well, just take a look at most peoples (Windows) computers today, are they really filled with paid for software...?! Is even Windows paid for...?!
I'm not saying that it wouldn't be good for Apple to release MacOS for generic hardware (I'm not saying it wouldn't bad either), I'm just saying that it isn't such huge good thing (for Apple) that most people seem to think...
perl -e'print$_{$_} for sort%_=`lynx -dump svanstrom.com/t`'
I dont know if this was posted yet Windows booting up on mac video. I'm convinced.
I dont knwo how many people will read this post either so if someone wants to devote a new article to this go ahead.
Screenshot here
Video available here
http://clips1.vimeo.com.nyud.net:8080/video_files/ 2006/03/15/vimeo.74487.mov
He just posted a video of it booting. While it's not the answer of how to do it, it's better than possible 'PHOTOSHOPED' photos. Kantara
"Everyone spoke of an information overload, but what there was in fact was a non-information overload."
Your submission contains 9 links, without clear indication of which contains the "scoop." Links aren't just paths to other pages; they highlight text and draw the reader's eye to what should be important. You mix in links to completely unnecessary pages that any reader (if interested) could Google on his own. The slashdot editors sagely rejected your submission; you failed to whittle down your story to its heart, instead littering it with noise most readers want to avoid.
According to Intel documentation, using a CSM that plugs into the EFI framework should allow for booting BIOS-based operating systems:So far (to me at least), it looks like narf2006 (and his accomplice, blanka) might have truly done it.
http://www.onmac.net/
Says they are testing the submitted "solution".
If you look at the last few windows of the movie, the device manager lists "Batteries" as a device. If it's running on an iMac, there is no battery! I'm running XP on my desktop PC and there is no "Batteries" device listed in the device manager. This is not footage of it running on an iMac. Whatever it is (a full screen movie probably), it's running on a laptop.
That's not the point. Parent stated that he hadn't found software that " that isn't directly ported to the Mac or that I couldn't find a comparable "replica" on the Mac.". Doesn't matter if it is trivial or not. It isn't there and there's no replacement. Windows is the only choice. And there is a whole host of other pieces of software like it, that are unique and only available for Windows.
From the site.
"Latest Update
Contest has been won - updates to follow shortly. All further donations will go into an account to sustain the open source project that will be launched with the initial solution. There are still many bugs to be worked out! "
Details to follow on http://onmac.net/.
Running Windows XP on a mac has to be the dumbest thing you could do with a 1,200 laptop.Apples Mac OSX is much more Advanced and powerful than Microsoft Windows.come-on face it,putting windows on a mac is like butchering the laptop after you just bought it...