This is supposedly video of Microsoft’s Windows XP booting on an Intel-based Apple iMac Core Duo from the same “narf2006” who yesterday posted a series of still photos in his Flickr account, showing what appears to be XP Pro booting up on an iMac Core Duo
Do you think it’s real or a fake?
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “J Alex” for the heads up.]
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Really, who cares if it does?
Even if you can, it would be a pain.
Software won’t work half the time, drivers and other issues.
It’s nothing to be relied upon, updates will break it and you’ll have to wait for the cracks before running your programs.
So sorry, your just going to have to pay the Microsoft tax if you want to run their programs.
Or just get a Vista machine and be done with it.
Vista will address the security and ascetics, all the developers will code for it.
post announced vista not to support HD media straight away, hahaha, what do they do there? other than nothing, efi, ,net, viruses in beta vistas etc etc
yeah
BFD
Now if I can find a download and burn a cd, then I can finally switch my Mac to a Windows PC.
I bought this Mac and then realized I was a outcast from the rest of the computing world.
Thanks MDN!
Now, Windows is truly everywhere.
Paul – Vista will be stripped down to the bare minimum to get it to market… if it hasn’t already been stipped
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Did you just mention Vista & Security in the same sentence… I blew tea out of my nose with laughter when I read that
As for whether the video is real or not – seems real to me…
Looks real to me. Looks like the typical setup routine.
Liam,
Mac OS X hasn’t had such a great security track record either.
In fact, it’s quite dismal. So far in the short time Mac OS X has been out there is more security issues than the entire history of pre-Mac OS X.
With Mac OS X and Vista security being about the same, I’ll take Vista because there will be more programs written for it.
Face it, Apple is gouging as much money from it’s user base as possible before Vista arrives.
Apple knows they are finished.
What is the incessant fascination with booting Windows on a Mac? Why do these folks seem hell-bent on putting a mouse and wheel inside an iMac?
Are these the same sort of people who go out and buy an expensive European sports car and start ripping out the engine and drive train in favor of their Chevy small blocks and other bits and pieces laying around the front yard?
Some people genuinely have too much time and apparently too much money on their hands.
M$, however, is quite a lumbering giant. Innovation, user experience, and the-things-not-yet-done keep Apple in my favor.
Notice how prices on iPods have come down and down over time. Apple is not opposed to lower prices, but they also know that people are willing to pay. Economies of scale play in here, too.
keep your dirty pox ridden system off my macs.
If it takes that long to boot, it’s a bigger dog than ME was. I’m up and running in less than 30 seconds on my iMac, and that’s with startup items to boot first.
“In fact, it’s quite dismal. So far in the short time Mac OS X has been out there is more security issues than the entire history of pre-Mac OS X.”
What security issues???? They had some updates that has affected NO ONE!!! These updates come out, things move on. End of story! If you want to go with MS, have at it. Live in mediocrity and be happy for what it is.
Does anyone laughing at Vista remember an operating system called Copeland?
Nice! now one can use programs that were only written for (insert windows marketshare here..what shall we say? 80%?) of the people!
Only ignorant people would question the relevance of this. It makes the decision much easier for potential switchers as well.
Try to understand that there are LOADS of software that your precious Mac can’t run and if you have to use it, then you’re stuck with windows (shudder!)
Not to mention games
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Looking forward to running Windows on the intel based powermacs just to play games (with the network card disabled mind you!).
I think it’s real… it would be damn difficult to track that correctly the way he’s moving it around.
Unless, of course, he captured a windows machine doing all that and is just playing a full screen video in QT.
Who knows? We’ll find out soon enough.
Tommy Boy, that’s what apple was like in Jobs’ absence or what M$ is like in Gates’ presence
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What security issues?
Why these of course, just scroll down and take a nice long look.
http://secunia.com/product/96/
It’s like this, if you haven’t completely erased your hard drive from the Tiger install disk, fresh installed/updated everything and started over with brand new created files, your machine could be totally compromised.
Software updates alone won’t do, because previous intrusions have altered the system, applications and files (to run a hidden app)
Unless your wise enough to examine the code of all your old files, you must consider these files compromised.
You may double click them and they will open their respective app like normal, but they can also install something.
IT’S A FAKE!!! How can I tell? It didn’t lock up and have to be rebooted!!!
PC’s are cheap as chips. Just get a PC. Why would you buy an expensive Mac to run Windows.
The video looks real to me. I have no desire to run Windows on my beautiful iMac but I hope lots of geeks out there that would normally buy a Dell or HP give some consideration to buying a Mac instead based on being able to install Windows. Like Thurrott they may just begin to realize how great the Mac OS really is.
Ashvillian,
Wow, after looking at the page you have linked, I see that Apple has a great record of fixing issues that crop up with every operating system. Some of the most critical issues were in fact not Apple issues but third party issues that affected multiple OS’s, such as Apache or PHP. This page also only recognizes specifically patched issues. Some of these may have been fixed with the release of new versions of the OS.
If you think OS X is bad then you need to stop using computers and hide in a cave.
WINE! DAMNIT!
Stop this! give the money to the devs of Darwine, then you won’t have to go through this poop OS!!
MW: Make REAL <b>Progress!!!,b>
Yawn…WHO CARES????? Windows on a Mac? Makes NO SENSE AT ALL.
A non-story IMHO. I could not care less. Windows sucks camel ass.
Someone with too much free time made that useless video.
Windows on a Mac? BwaaaaaaaHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!! WHY? Why?
Unless video is being routed into the mac from a PC, looks real … either way, a serious waste of a good Mac ;o) why bother!?
What is the incessant fascination with booting Windows on a Mac?
Agreed. WTF is with this obsession with booting XP on a Mac anyway?
If I understand this right, the idea is to shut down Mac OS X in order to turn your Mac into a hacked, unsupported, lucky-if-it-works PC clone. WHY?!
IMO if you need to run Windows that damned bad, get a PC.