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Windows XP on Intel Mac Confirmed
niemassacre writes "According to winxponmac.com, the contest has been won - nearly $14k to narf2006 for submitting a working solution to dual-booting Windows XP and Mac OS X on an Intel-Powered mac. A thread on osx86project.org has confirmations from several testers that the procedure works on the 17" iMac, the Mac mini, and the MacBook Pro. Many sets of pictures and videos (such as this installation video) are floating around (and mentioned in the thread). The solution itself should be posted soon." Poit! Congratulations to narf.
Sure, from a geek perspective, this is mildly interesting, but not cool as we have known all along that there are no real fundamental architecture differences that would preclude this from happening..... so, I have a hard time understanding exactly why everybody seems so obsessed about this.
SHUT THE FUCK UP ALREADY. No one is obsessed with it, it's just something that people are expecting to be able to do when they buy an Intel Mac, but it hadn't been made possible. If you don't understand why someone would want to boot Windows on a Mac, visit the older threads and read all the replies to the all the idiots asking the same thing you are.
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A Macintosh does not cost any more than a PC that is equipped with the same components in hardware (equal software) and equal OS.
Yes, I know there are countless numbers of people that can say, but I but a base laptop from [insert company name here] for $300, Apple requires you to spend [insert dollar amount here]. A PC allows you to buy less and spend less. Apple requires you to buy more and thus pay for it. The advantage of PCs are their configuration flexability to buy what you want and only what you want. It is NOT in their price. If that were the case then PCs would actually cost less than a Mac of the same components.