“It looks like someone may have finally gotten Windows XP booting on an Intel-based Mac. narf2006 posted a series of photos in his Flickr account, showing what appears to be XP Pro booting up on an iMac Core Duo,” Mac on Intel reports. “Some are holding out for verification of this alleged achievement, given the difficulties involved in finding true victory. We will keep everyone posted on the latest surrounding this news.”
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“We’re still a little dubious about this one, but word is out that one narf2006 has successfully installed Windows XP on an Intel iMac, has gotten it to boot (despite the EFI issue, and apparently after extensive hacking), and is now asking for volunteers to test his process on other Intel-based Macs. And that last bit is really what has us thinking this may be more than just the latest Photoshop art project,” Marc Perton writes for Engadget.
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AMAZING! If this were true, it would be incredible…
Now maybe someone will work on getting it to run on a PC (for any length of time
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BTW Heidi: Hilarious. Thanks.
Probably the same thing I’m doing here.
I’m an urban designer, i love my macs and yes, i’ve got ONE PC to run MicroStation CAD-software.
I’m not really interested anymore if someone can boot Windows on a Mac. It really isn’t a step forward.
But, I can see the advantage of having Windows running inside of Guest PC or VPC at native speed. THAT would be an improvement.
Other than that. Who cares?
Strange going on topic. I would me much more interested in a successful boot of OSX on a Dell-machine.
Remember that the last version of the G4 iMac looks exactly like the Mactel iMac from the front. He could have easily put VPC on the G4 and gone to full screen. I have to use VPC from time to time and can have 2000 Pro at full screen on a 23″ display – buy why ruin the display . . .
some things I just can’t understand..I mean, I know the reason why some small PC users want XP or whatever on their Mac’s…but I just don’t understand it..this is horrible news.
Beeelllch…
Huh, what? Windoze screws another persons life up?
Well, why do they keep using it then?
marko:
even if true it just looks so wrong.
silk hat on a pig kind of a thing.
More like a dirty hat on a silk pig. But still, for some people (myself included), Windows is a necessary evil.
The day that I can do everything that is work related on my Mac will be the first day of the rest of my life…
I think it’s funny whenever I see people post ridiculous things like, “If you’re a true Mac fan, you shouldn’t have a job that requires you to use Windows.”
Guess what… My job requires me to use Windows, and the income that it gives me allows me to afford my Macs.
MW: Run. Wow. It’s positively eerie sometimes.
Hey, any mountain will be climbed- that’s human nature. Much more satisfying to me is the people who are booting OSX on their POS Thinkpads and Dells. A good thing deserves favor, and distribution. Any chance Cupertino will desire their OS to be everywhere? So far, it don’t look like it. The MacOSx86 project keeps getting attacked. Yeah, I’ve got a Thinkpad here that runs OSX. Nicely. Much more of a thing to celebrate, getting rid of windoze in all its forms. I’ve never, actually, ever personally needed any microsoft program except for IE, and only then to access two specific, work-related sites. One of those sites grew up, the other is still sucking the teat.
RE:”kenh…
I understand you have to use windows apps because your job requires it. What I don’t understand is what are you doing here with all the Mac Fanatics?”
and”Okay, kenh. We get to some may need to run Windows apps, I am one of those people. However, why is it you have to run Windows on a Mac? Point is, why try to run apps on a computer they were never intended for. This would be like having Metallica play at a honky tonk. Not well received at all.
Need to run Windows apps? Buy a Windows PC. Problem Solved!”
Buy a Windows PC? Uh…………No, for reasons self evident to most of us.
Why not just calm down and run an app you need on a computer that will run it, like a Mac that runs Virtual PC, which is what I do, and it runs just fine.
The point is I don’t get all emotional about it as some of you do.
Why am I here? Sometimes I wonder: just happen to be a Mac user since 1988 who thinks I own the best computer in the world, and I don’t need to become ideological about it.
Only occasionally do I lose control of my emotions in response to those whose emotions seem out of control constantly , as when some of you berate those of us who are not ideologically pure enough for you.
If I could just boot up Windows directly, I would use it when I need it and then get off it..no problem, and no emotional involvement.
So why am I here? I suppose I like to watch train wrecks, perverse of me as it is.
Have a nice day.
Bah-humbug…. Call me when you get Mac OS X 10.4.5 installed on an off-the-shelf platform running a dual core AMD 64-bit processor.
Don’t waste your time getting Windows XP on a dual-core Intel 32-bit box.
Geeeezzz…
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