Windows Drivers for Mac Rolling Out

OSXpert writes "Sure, we all know that Windows can now run on intel Apple Computers. Alas, the solution does not include drivers, and until now Mac users could still only hope to be able to use every application available to their Windows counterparts. However, with drivers now working 100% on the Mac Mini and drivers for the MacBook Pro only lacking video (which, by the looks of the 2nd link is only days away), Mac users now have a complete and working Windows solution."

Comments

Re:iBook user says...

[slavemowgli]

You're missing the point. The question is not "why would anyone want to run windows?", but rather "why would anyone want to run windows ON A MAC?". If you do want to run windows, why not just get a regular PC, which is gonna be cheaper and which will (generally) have less compatibility issues?

How hard is it to get Windows to run on a PC

[TheSkepticalOptimist]

I mean, the Mac is a PC with EFI. The hardware in it is PC hardware. I am sure it is slightly more complicated then that, considering that Mac's typically take PC components like video cards and slightly alter the firmware or BIOS on them in order to make them "Mac" hardware (and charge 50% more for the same equivalent PC card), but again, how hard is it to get Windows to run on a PC?

Come one, this isn't news. Mac's are now 98% PC's, getting Windows to run on them is trivial considering Windows is an OS designed to run on millions of configurations of PC's as opposed to the 3 Macintel models Apple offer. Once EFI support is built into Vista, it will become even more trivial to run Windows on a "Mac".

Apple lost, period. They are a PC clone with a Unix based OS, everything Apple despised in the past is now their flagship product! Apple's new motto "Think Same!" or "If you can't beat em, join em!"

Windows with only 1 mouse button

[Myria]

How are you supposed to use Windows on a MacBook when there's only 1 mouse button?

I wish Steve Jobs would get his head out of his ass about the 1 mouse button thing. The lack of a second mouse button is now the only thing stopping me from buying a MacBook. Yes, I know that you can just hook up a USB mouse, but that only works when using the laptop in a desktop situation.

As for the Mighty Mouse, that is a 1 1/2-button mouse. You can't click both the left and right buttons at the same time, making it useless for playing World of Warcraft.

Melissa