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.

Comments

Re:Macs typically cost the same or less than PCs

[Gr8Apes]

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.

Re:Dual booting is unpractical

[Bill Hayden]

Dual booting is unpractical

Me fail English? That's unpossible!