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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. I switched from Windows to the MacOS not because of the hardware, but because of the OS, so why would I want to run Windows on my Mac? And no, I don't care about all the games that are available on Windows.... no time these days.
The one place where I could see an advantage would be to run the occasional software package available on Windows, because under a dual boot environment, I am still prevented from sharing data between the OS's in a facile manner. So what would be impressive, is a transparent translation shell for OS X (like Virtual PC), supported natively in the OS that would allow me run apps, to cut and paste between environments and read/write to/from shared space without having to resort to separately booting or partitioning.
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That tends to happen when you're continually lied to on a daily basis, like from your executive branch of government for instance, or big corporations that claim to be looking out for your best interests and not their profits.
I'm guessing that OS X would be the bad one, since it's the only one that attempts to lock you to one specific hardware vendor.
Besides the fact that Macs just work....
When I bought my Powerbook over a year ago, I priced a similarly equipped windows notebook (not software, just hardware). The Windows notebook came out about $200 more, was larger, heavier, and had shorter battery life. I couldn't come up with anything closer to a Powerbook.
Granted, the Windows notebook would have been slightly faster at some tasks, but not for the ones I was looking forward to using, namely photo-editing and movie editing software. (Which have some darn good implementations on a mac included with the base OS, although photoshop is loads better, even for minor things such as red-eye correction) Finding similar software for Windows would tack on a hundred or so more to the price tag.
If you really want to argue the bottom of the pile deal, you can buy a "cheap" Mac, used or refurbished.
The cesspool just got a check and balance.
Um... so does just having a Windows PC in the first place. ;)
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