“OpenOSX released WinTel 2.1, a new version of its software for running Windows on Intel Macs. The company claims performance gains of 300-to-600 percent over version 2.0 for Intel Macs. WinTel 2.1 now uses the QEMU virtual machine,” MacWindows reports.
“Last week we reported that open source developer Gwenolé Beauchesne had ported the open-source QEMU x86 virtual machine from PowerPC to Mac-Intel. OpenOSX is now using Beauchesne’s port of QEMU in WinTel 2.1,” MacWindows reports. “OpenOSX claims that WinTel 2.1 can boot Windows XP in just over half a minute on the 2.0 GHz iMac Intel with the 512-MB of RAM installed. WinTel 2.1 is a “universal” Mac application that can also run on PowerPC G4 and G5 Macs.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Note: MacWindows asks users who’ve tried WinTel 2.1 on an Intel Mac for feedback via:
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OpenOSX ships WinTel 2.0: runs Windows at ‘nearly native speed’ on Apple’s Intel-based Macs – January 17, 2006
Let’s see this in action before we get too excited. I love me some good hype.
MDN: dark as in “moo”
IT WORKS HOLY CRAP
Sounds as if Windows might be faster on a Mac than on a Winbox. Funny!
I’ve read some bad reviews from people about this company. Anyone care to sound off about OpenOSX’s customer service/product track record?
Don’t start that “windows is better on a Mac” crap. We had that with OS/2 running Windows apps better than Windows and look where that got OS/2.
“Sounds as if Windows might be faster on a Mac than on a Winbox. Funny!”
Macaday, it would be funny, if it were true. Unfortunately, the 600% performance improvement is compared to running under emulation on PowerPC based Macs, which could be described as slow as molasses going uphill in January, unless you had a very fast machine, in which case it would simply be described as slow as molasses.
I wouldn’t count on Windows running faster inside of Mac OS X than natively on a similarly equipped PC. We should be happy if it runs just as fast. My guess is we’ll see a slight (5-10%) loss in performance from Mac OS X’s and the virtual machine software overhead.
AndyC —
OpenOSX has a history of re-packaging open source projects. Technically they’re allowed to do this, even with the GPL, as long as they claim it’s a “distribution fee” and as long as any code they create either interfaces with the GPL’d code only in certain ways or is also released under the GPL.
What they do is not illegal, but a lot of it is simple to do on your own if you’re willing to do a little leg work. They also do a lot of re-branding so that people who don’t know better think the whole project came from OpenOSX — also not illegal, and there’s a time-hallowed legal tradition of including the important information in tiny type.
MacWindows asks users who’ve tried WinTel 2.1 on an Intel Mac for feedback
I’d be happy to do so, if they’ll supply a copy of Windows to install on it, but I won’t fork over my money to Microsoft.
‘Sounds like’ not ‘IS’ ie the half a minute quoted to load Win XP is quick in my experience with that guck..
I think it’s funny but otherwise I’m not in the slightest bit interested. This may bring more companies over to OSX knowing a legacy app or two needn’t be lost to them…
big deal
i don’t give a fuck if it runs 10 zillion times faster
it’s still crap
just fast crap
Shouldn’t that be frankrizzo@macwindows.com ???
I think the bad OpenOSX story you are thinking of is the one related to Fink
Frank Rizzo? The dead former mayor and police commissioner of Philadelphia, who reveled in having his ‘boys in blue’ take nightsticks to the heads of brown-skinned people throughout the 60s & 70s, is software coding? From the grave?
How interesting …
So are they the winners of the contest http://winxponmac.com/The Contest.html ?
“Frank! FRANK RIZZO! Open your f-ckin’ ears, jackass!”
I went to the Empire State Building and I can’t see so good, goddamn it!
600% of nothing isn’t a whole lot.
flappo: Very true. You can’t even roll up the windows in a fast turdmobile.
BULL SH**! OPENOSX.COM’s stuff never worked well anyway.
Frank Rizzo? Yeah, blame it all on the dead guy.
Phillyboy, are you suggesting that someone 6 feet under and without a single respiring cell could write code better than 5,000 air-breathing idiots in Redmond, WA?
Beryllium:
<i>MacWindows asks users who’ve tried WinTel 2.1 on an Intel Mac for feedback
I’d be happy to do so, if they’ll supply a copy of Windows to install on it, but I won’t fork over my money to Microsoft.
Just do what all the Windows PC users do and pirate it.
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Damn tags…
MW: Expected. That’s not what I expected.