“The Texas man who jumped-started the effort to get Windows XP to dual-boot on Intel-based Macs posted the winning solution on his site Thursday, and said the contest’s cash prize of nearly $14,000 had been won by a pair of Californians,” Gregg Keizer reports for TechWeb News. “In January, Colin Nederkoorn of Houston began taking donations for a prize to be awarded to the first developer who came up with a way to boot an Intel Mac into either Mac OS X or Windows XP. Within days, he had raised thousands. Nederkoorn had a selfish reason for the contest: He wanted to downsize from two machines — a PowerPC-based Mac and a PC running Windows — that he was using at work to just one, an Intel MacBook Pro he’d ordered as soon as Apple debuted the new systems.”
“Two men collaborated to come up with the solution, said Nederkoorn. Although he said they lived in California, he wouldn’t disclose their names, saying that they wanted to remain anonymous for now,” Keizer reports. “To produce a dual-boot Mac, users must customize a Windows XP installation CD by burning a new disc that includes the custom bootloader files. The Mac must also be partitioned — a disk partitioning utility is included with the machine — so that Mac OS X and Windows XP can co-exist on the same drive. Nederkoorn was very satisfied with the solution. ‘The Mac runs Windows extremely well,’ he said… ‘There are driver issues right now. There’s not a good video driver for Windows XP,’ he said. ‘And the Mac crashes when you shut down Windows. People are going to need to talk to each other and share [information]… I think this could be a big boom for Apple,’ Nederkoorn agreed. ‘On a dual-boot, Windows is directly accessing [Intel’s] Core Duo [processor]. I’ve never had a laptop this fast.'”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: As we asked back in early June 2005, using “Dell” as a stand in for all Windows box assemblers, “Why buy a Dell when Apple ‘Macintel’ computers will run both Mac OS X and Windows?” Wait until Wall Street figures this one out. With a few issues left to iron out, it’s almost time to shut down the company and give the money back to the shareholders, Mikey.
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“How stupid can some of you be???”
“We will no longer invest in Mac OS X, because Macs are being made to run Windows, by far the dominant OS. All future releases will be Windows only”.
What happens when third-party vendors embrace this statement?
iLife is great, but I don’t want to rely on Apple for EVERYthing Mac.
Stupid is being blinded by this “switchers on the fence” idea. Stupid is not fully thinking through the implications and all possible outcomes. What if Windows-on-Mac backfires and cuts deep into Apple?
Good one, mac dude…
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Yeh-heh-hehesssss … there he is. And about as useful as tits on a bull.
I tell you ‘MacDude’, you are truly earning your reputation of being de King Winwhore. Yeh-heh-hehessss, already a slut at de tender age of 14! No really, not even Gary Coleman sold out that fast.
WHAT?!? Come onnnn … I can keed. I keed because I care. I care about you nerds. And de PC whores, too. Like MacDude.
Oh, and by de way, I lick a lot of bums, but never my own.
“Face it folks, it’s over for Apple.
“Hundreds of thousands” of users aren’t going to go through the hoops of hacking XP to run on Macs. And no sane IT department is going to take on the legal & support issues of a hacked-to-fit OS. If a department is that anti-Mac they’ll just get PCs.
I won’t mention the large installed base of PowerPC Macs that won’t ever be booting XP…
Like I said before now, The Steve is a fsking genius!
As filthy as windblows is, it does own the market and mind share of a lot of people. Now that Apple makes computers able to run Mac OS X, Linux and Windblows, why buy anything else?
Rock on Steve!
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This is no threat to Apple, as those willing to pay (perceptibly) more for a Mac obviously want to use Mac OS X. Have you seen the rate at which Mac apps have been converted to universal binaries?
There are driver issues and “the Mac crashes when you shut down Windows.” and they say it runs fast extremely well. That’s Windows’ version of stability for you. If a Mac running on bland-box PC hardware crashed when shutting down, no Mac user would say it ran extremely well.
Reminds of my Windows brainwashed friend when I told him how malware free my Mac is. First he tells me how trouble free his PC is, but when I ask more questions, he tells me he doesn’t use the Internet much. Ha.
Yeah, my car runs just fine. Of course I only use it to go back and forth in my drive way. Windows mentality, I tell you.
Haven’t time to read all the posts (just off to bed), but presumably someone has pointed out the obvious: that it seems extremely unlikely the Monopolies Commission (Anti-Trust gang in the US, I believe) will allow Apple to keep their OS in our lovely, hermetically sealed environment once Macs can boot Windows et al? What if Apple were, as a consequence, forced to open OSX to all those box builders in the interests of a fair playing field?
Oh. My.
TommyBoy said (with bad grammar no less): “Welcome to Windows Mac users, it’s not as bad as you led to beleive.
Ah, TommyBoy, Winblows is actually much worse than most people think.
I think this will have a good impact on Apple stock tomorrow… We shall see..
The only reason to install Windows on a mac is to use those few important apps that are not ‘yet’ universal. When they are, you should drop windows like the old hat it is, unless you are a masochist. It’s arguable that running a program such as Photoshop under Rosetta is actually more efficient than running under Windows….considering the layer of crap you have to wade through in XP.
Schmutz! – Maybe you should tell your boss you see a day you are not working for a bunch of f***ing morons. I work for a company that a few years ago bought only PCs because they were cheaper and it would save them money…they learned, and have now transitioned their entire creative development group to G5s. I have a Media Center PC right next to my MacBook Pro, and my PC is now getting a nice thick layer of dust on it…that hanging, application crashing hunk of s**t.
Brother Mugga, OS X & Apple Hardware are like a Multipack of Coca Cola:
NOT TO BE SOLD SEPARATELY.
Have a nice day!
What’s the matter with you guys?
Can’t you see what’s happening?
Apple is dropping Firewire, they switched to Intel processors, they are doing nothing to prevent Windows from being run on thier hardware.
Apple is doing NOTHING, they are giving up!
Why don’t you face the TRUTH?
Apple wants to be another PC vendor and sell Vista on Mac’s.
Don’t you think Microsoft is busy right now making a version of Vista for Mac’s?
Look how fast it was to make a XP version for Mac’s?
Microsoft could have put out a version in less than a week.
It’s over for Mac OS X.
FACE THE TRUTH!!
Mary, we know you are Macdude.. Give up already.
Mike, your Mary right?
Bill Gates smiles down on all of you championing running XP on a Mac. It simply means more Windows licenses sold and the growth of Microsoft into a hardware market previously untapped.
Keep Cheering Suckers!
Mary is just what Macdude calls himself when he puts on makeup and wears heels.
Mary, Mary, quite contrary
Why do you always blow?
You really smell and you still can’t spell
With your stupid thoughts all in a row
Nice try, MacDude.
Obviously, Mary doesn’t know about M$’ announcement that Vista will not support EFI. Intels Macs run off EFI. OK Mary, in case, you can’t make the connection, that means Vista won’t run on Intel Macs out of the box.
As has been pointed out before, this is only of interest to hard-core geeks, some wavering switchers and Mac users who need to use Windows occasionally. The majority of average Joes won’t know, or care, how to get a dual-boot system running.
Heck, the average consumer doesn’t know there are different operating systems.
I curious in the same way I’m curious of a road side accident.
All you pudwackers, you think you know it all right?
UEFI support will be added to “subsequent 64-bit client releases (of Windows Vista),” instead, according to an IDF presentation by Andrew Ritz, development manager at Microsoft in Redmond, Wash.
These worthless iMactels are running a inferior 32 bit processor, not 64 bit.
That’s why they are performing less than a comparable 64 bit dualcore G5 processor.
And when is Intel supposed to release a 64 bit Core Duo? In November 2006.
Fools.
I agree. Running Windows on a Mac is pointless. I can’t think of a less interesting story. Ok, there was the loud sex party at Microsoft the day that guy the employees paid hit Bill in the face with a pie, but other than that, who really cares about running windows on a Mac.
I’ll wait for Darwine, thanks. I feel unsafe running Windows in emulation, let alone actually on the computer.
All you pudwackers, you think you know it all right?
UEFI support will be added to “subsequent 64-bit client releases (of Windows Vista),” instead, according to an IDF presentation by Andrew Ritz, development manager at Microsoft in Redmond, Wash.
These worthless iMactels are running a inferior 32 bit processor, not 64 bit.
That’s why they are performing less than a comparable 64 bit dualcore G5 processor.
And when is Intel supposed to release a 64 bit Core Duo? In November 2006.
Fools.
So again, Vista will NOT run on Macs out of the box. BTW, I’m willing to bet the Vista’s release date is going to slip at least once again.