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It was inevitable...we can now purchase Macs with Windows XP Pre-Installed

insanely-great.com — MacMall has announced that it will offer buyers the option to install 'doze XP on the full line of Macs it resells. “MacMall is the only large Mac direct marketing reseller we’re aware of marketing bundles of Apple’s new systems which come with pre-loaded software to work in both the Windows and Macintosh worlds as soon as they unpack their system"

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  • Ireland, on 10/12/2007, -17/+64When people think Windows they usually think the enterprise and business, but when I think Windows I think games, the Mac is for everything else.
  • exobyte, on 10/12/2007, -5/+53Today is a good day for Microsoft.
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -19/+51Ok now I'm thinking of switching over to a Mac.
  • Gardenhead, on 10/12/2007, -2/+25Okay, someone invested in some cave property.
  • thebiscuit, on 10/12/2007, -3/+24Yes. All macs come with the 2 button mouse now except the laptops which have 2-finger right clicking.

    That pissed on your bonfire.
  • NewChar, on 10/12/2007, -5/+24"MacMall has announced that it will offer buyers the option to install 'doze XP..."

    Man, that 'doze' remark was just clever.
  • TenebrousX, on 10/12/2007, -1/+18Today is a good day for John C. Dvorak
  • Gryffydd, on 10/12/2007, -4/+21@rasterbater
    What Linux user really wants Linux preinstalled? That's the kind of thing Windows users like. For myself at least I'd rather install it myself so I can pick my distro, and everything else.
  • 0siris, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15he says "is a good day"
  • philonous, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12This is ANCIENT history. Macmall has had this offer ever since Intel Macs were introduced. Dugg it, nevertheless.
  • ij00mini, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10This can only help sales for MacMall. Switchers looking for an easy way to have both OS's will find this. There's no work to be done for them.
  • MadKennyP, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10Macs do come with a 2-button mouse, but who would use that thing? I replaced mine with a nice Logitech. Still, funny comment.
  • mastercheif, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11MSN!!! That's ALMOST as bad as AOL. I feel for you.
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8You're right; he called it. But then again, he also predicted that Apple will no longer make their own OS, so we'll have to wait and see.
  • zwilliams, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7How is this news? MacMall has been doing this since a month after the introduction of Bootcamp. Lame.
  • phytonix, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7MacMall is one of the most rip-off store ever. For example, you have to pay $199 to upgrade a Mac mini to total 1GB there. And you only pay $75 at Apple.com.
  • azzageddi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Yes, *you* can do it, but this is the first time someone has offered to sell it preinstalled. This means people who are intimidated by the idea of installing an OS (and there are a lot of them) are more likely to switch to Mac.
  • waterdrop, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6This is old news, when Boot Camp first was released other stores started doing this.
  • OrangeTide, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5still a better deal than Alienware.
  • panique, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Inevitable? Yes.
    OFN? Yes, MacMall started doing this like a week after the BootCamp was in beta.
  • exobyte, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4You go to CompUSA?
  • thashiz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5My local CompUSA was advertising this service a few weeks ago.
  • mimicit, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Giving consumers a choice is never a bad thing. Apple makes the hardware, sells more hardware because of the option, it's a win. The convergence of operating systems is the interesting thing here, although this is dual boot, the future is Vmware on the Mac. That means Windows and the Apple GUI at the same time. Windows games, NP. Isn't that why you would have Windows on your Mac really? The games.
  • Wyzard, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Presumably the machines are dual-boot, with OSX as the main operating system.
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Touchpad clicking is evil and should be sent back to hell where it belongs.
  • exobyte, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Nope. No sarcasm. If I was MS, seeing Windows XP on a Mac would be a very good thing.
  • emorphien, on 10/12/2007, -9/+13i've always wondered about the "Windows is for games, macs are for everything else" thing.

    I'm working on my Mac right now but to be honest I always have done more work on my PC (and gamed when I did that). Could people stop passing off their opinions as truths, or is that just too much to ask?
  • waterdrop, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3You'll be able to play games, but I doubt the Mobility Radeon X1600 in the MBP can handle the latest games at high settings while pushing a decent resolution and a decent fps.
  • floam, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Yuck!
  • stevejobs, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3They already have a mouse with 4 buttons and a scroll ball. It's called the Mighty Mouse and it has been out for awhile now. Perhaps the design is so clean you just assumed it only had one button.
  • Wyzard, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Well, they can't offer Vista, because it isn't released yet. What else should they do?

    XP is available now and people want to buy computers now. Offering XP preinstalls now can get them some extra sales that they wouldn't get if they just waited for Vista.
  • macxprt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3They have been doing this ever since the Intel macs were released. Nothing to see here. Move on...
  • Abduladu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Good for them. But they aren't the first as the article suggests--http://www.expercom.com has been providing this service ever since Boot Camp. They certainly aren't as big as MacMall, but they still are a major reseller.
  • pevensen, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3This is old news. They have been doing this since the Intel Macs were released.
  • notepaddotexe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2My Linux box laughs in your Mac's face when it comes to functionality and being a work horse.

    My two Windows PCs laugh in your Mac's face when it comes to gaming and running all the other Apps that OS X will never see.

    I simply laugh because I'm getting the best of both worlds while you become close-minded...with your shiny (isn't that Apple's main selling point?), overpriced, mediocre Apple product.
  • flamingmb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Yeah macmall has been doing this for a loooonnng time. I get there catalog and remember seeing this months ago. Not news at all.
  • sputza, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6I don't like Macs that much... but who the hell keeps the mouse that comes with a PC anyways. I always replace my mouse with a better one, regardless of the platform. PC or Mac, replace the out of the box mouse!
  • hayden.evans, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2yeah seriously you guys just figured this out? this has been going on for several months.
    no digg.
  • johnalan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Im not a fanboy at all, but I gotta say, I run both OSX and XP, and I really feel OSX is the shizzle, but XP on a mac just adds functionality which is good!
  • trump48257, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3MacMall has been selling Macs with XP on since BootCamp was released like 6-8 months ago.
  • clairmont, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Dvorak called it.
  • theprez, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Actually it was since Bootcamp. Remember everybody trying to install Windows on the first Intel iMac and MBP? Bootcamp came afterwards.
  • badtz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2are you sure mac users are the closed minded ones? case closed.
  • TheNik, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Has the MacBook Pro XP video driver issue been fixed yet? I'm just curious as I've been giving a lot of thought to buying one, but I want to install XP and play games with a high frame rate. >_>
  • Wyzard, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2VMware is good for many things, but video gaming is not one of them. Windows in VMware doesn't see your real video card; it sees a virtual video card provided by VMware. That virtual video card provides 3D acceleration if you enable it -- it's experimental and disabled by default -- but all the graphics operations have to go through an emulation layer so there's a performance impact.
  • rheaume, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Man, its almost over, cant wait!
  • diggermedoo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2This is my favorite part of their press release:

    "MacMall ... a wholly owned subsidiary of PC Mall"
  • dan00b, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Works fine for me :)
  • FreeiPodGuy.com, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4This isn't exactly what Dvorak predicted. If I remember right, Dvorak predicted Apple would get out of the OS business.This is just a reseller bundle install.
  • RabbiRob, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2So you can run TWO operating systems on ONE machine. Cheaper than buying two machines and two operating systems.
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