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- Dan005, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3http://www.osx86project.org.nyud.net:8080/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=129&Itemid=2
Coralized. - Rosewood, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"Intersting but who wants Windows on there Mac!Certainly not me!"
I just want people to know the difference between there and their! - colebarnes, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I want to dual boot, VERY handy for us developers. My main development machine is in my living room because not only am I a programmer, but I also like to spend time with my family.
If I could have a single computer sitting in my living room and boot OS X, Windows, Linux, and Solaris on the same box... I'd be in heaven. I've got Windows, Linux, and Solaris x86 happily living on the same computer, but alas, my Mac is off in another room.
The day I can legally dual boot an Intel Mac, I'm buying one... But not before... So this is definitely good for those of us who actually use our computers for something besides games or photoshop... - yanked, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1For me, a word guy, the necessary apps would be Omnipage Pro 15, Dragon NaturallySpeaking, and the software for Logitech's iO2 digital pen, just to name three off the top of my head (I know there are equivalents for the first two on the mac, but there's a huge difference between 99% and 98% accuracy with those things). I live on the mac, but there are a lot a visits I want to be able to easily make to windows land, alas.
- dclowd9901, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I want a mac with windows so that I don't run into any of the stupid compatibility issues that always seem to crop up in design work.
Also, Macs are fun. - danielwsmithee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"Now I can think of one thing windows can do that a Mac cant. Gaming anyone?"
It's not that it can't it just doesn't. Some day games will be developed cross platform sadly today is not the day. - ThatsUnpossible, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Some of us need to use both operating systems. Get over it.
- w00master, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1^^ Get a life KillerX.
This is tremendous progress. I JUST got my Mac Book Pro today and I'm definitely looking forward to the day that I'll be able to dool boot from it. Awww Yeahhh. - stickittothemon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Cause nothing beats the way that a iMac looks, and having windows and OSX on it would be awsome.
- supa, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Houdini only runs on XP and Linux
- weareglass, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Well, games aside, if someone has been using Windows and has purchased their software, this will let them run, say, Photoshop for Windows without having to pay several hundred dollars for a Mac version until they can save up. I'm sure if I hadn't quit cold turkey after my PC died in 1998 I would have a lot of legacy stuff and being able to run Windows occasionally would help facilitate a lot of switchers' needs
- CarbonAndroid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Who wants to run windows on a mac?
Developers. You would have more people developing for the mac. - Kazaki, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Finally, my dreams of being able to legally use both OS's are coming to fruitation.
Just as I expected. Hopefully it'll be rock solid by the time Vista comes out, I'd love to be able to dual-boot them on my MBP. - SCARECR0W, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Yeah, I wish people who keep posting the same old diatribe: "why would anyone want to run XP on a mac?!?" would just shut the f*ck up. If it doesn't interest you, then why post about it?
There are a lot of people with a lot of different reasons, for wanting to be able to run all major OS on one machine... namely a mac. - tsupersonic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I think getting XP and Vista to run on a intel Macs is interesting. However, I fail to see the purpose, sure it's a fun experiment. Why not just get yourself a dedicated Windows machine if you really want it? They are very cheap these days.
- Retrograde, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0It is babbling, but a lot of people have to run Windows for games, corporate apps, etc.
The ability to use both would rock! - vinny, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"I think getting XP and Vista to run on a intel Macs is interesting. However, I fail to see the purpose, sure it's a fun experiment. Why not just get yourself a dedicated Windows machine if you really want it? They are very cheap these days."
I think you are completely missing the point. If I need to use Windows and OS X applications, I don't want to carry around two computers. It doesn't matter how cheap they are. - Retrograde, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Oh, and I forgot to add, I think the XP part is important too - getting XP to do anything with the bootloader is farther than anyone has gotten up to this point.
This is progress, to say the least. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0The NEW AMD's will do this without hacking jackass with alot less money called pasifica! due out in april
- lordfoul, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Sweet.
- aristotle1990, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1"i still don't understand why the hell anyone would want to put windows on an iMac... is it a proof of concept or something?"
Read the ***** comments. - Retrograde, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Not true windsok... He's gotten to that point but he's also made more progress.
Quoting from the link:
As a heads up I seem to have gotten to make the machine boot off the local Hard Drive finally (though I'm not exactly sure what I did as I was just fuddling at that time. I'll have to look in detail later) but it still reboots and at least in this config I lost the ability to use F8 on that partition too. On a side to that I also discovered that once the bootmanager is loaded it can read NTFS drives even if the EFI doesn't see it as I put vista back on an NTFS partition on the USB drive and it started loading. Also and this may be a bit more significant....I had installed XP on another partition on the drive and so it showed up on the bootloader. It started do...well..SOMETHING as I had hard drive activity when I selected the Legacy OS boot option. Problem is I couldn't see anything on the screen and the PC rebooted itself after which it told me it couldn't find NTLDR anymore.
It's pretty clear that he's made some progress. He's using the same methods but he's obviously going beyond the nak story. - Chaucer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0That is seriously some great news. I hope he gets it working soon!
- ucg1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0personally I want Windows running in a VM in OS X more than being able to dual-boot, but this is cool. I was glad to see WinXP running in VMWare in Linux, so it's at least possible that way.
- xx0xx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0digg, even if its an unusablebut amusing waste of time/expansion of knowledge. just the effort of doing it deserves t3h diggness. been waiting for this to happen.
- cameoex, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I can see reasons why people want to run Windows on their Macs, it would be nice to only have to buy one machine to do everything. But the comments I have seen about it causing more developers to develop for the Mac seem odd. If anything I would think it would cause less developers to develop for the Mac. Why would they code a OS X version if they can just write the Windows version that runs on all machines? Just because the hardware underneath the OS's is the same, doesn't mean you get versions that run on both OS X and Windows. If you need proof of that just look at Windows and Linux. How many commercial apps have found their way over to Linux?
My other concern is about the integrity of my data. If I dual booted I would want to keep the data that OS X has access to seperate from the data that Windows uses. Do I really want a Windows virus to wipe out OS X? - wjadams, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Almost doesn't win ballgames or pulitzer prizes! MAKE A BIG DEAL WHEN SOMETHING HAS BEEN DONE!
- chadseld, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I guess I don't care about dual-boot anymore. I got tired of waiting to play fun games on my iMac and ordered components for a new AMD rig. The iMac is for work, the AMD in for fun. Maybe this time next year the iMac will be for both??
- vinny, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"What can a Mac do that Windows cant."
You could ask the same question in reverse. The truth is that there are applications on both platforms that aren't available on the other. On the Mac side there are many graphic, audio, and video applications that are not available on the Windows side. Plus, many people prefer Apple hardware. - Retrograde, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"saving my digg for the real deal"
Wow, have they already instituted digg rations? :-) - Au79, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0It is a shame that anyone would want to run a substandard OS atop fine hardware. The argument that some people need this duality to run specialized apps does not make sense when we throw Windows performance and safety record into the mix: The fact is that one will need spend that much more in resources just to arrive at the level of safety, performance and reliability that is associated with Apple and Linux.
Too much work for so little promise. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Double booting would be cool. F13 makes the OS switch.. Would be nice instead of having to run either or.
- m99stump, on 07/29/2008, -1/+1"what a waste of good hardware..."
Here here, seriously, The closest Windows belongs on an iMac is under Virtual Machine. - bludra84, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0saving my digg for the real deal
- macewan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Windows on Mac hardware?? That's just disgusting. Linux would have been better.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0almost?
- spamdies, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0its about tiime someone put a real os on an imac
- rafleming, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0"What can a Mac do that Windows cant."
Seeing as how you are comparing a piece of hardware to a piece of software... I'd say this is a pretty stupid question. - rafleming, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1"Finally, my dreams of being able to legally use both OS's are coming to fruitation."
FRUITATION !? Now that's some funny *****. - dotpage, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1what a waste of good hardware...
- kevinrosesmom, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0"I ALMOST got into Rice University.
/my daddy isn't rich or influential."
ummm.. I go to Rice, but why the hell is this comment here? - mynameisob3l, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0according to all the apple fruitcakes, isn't the best thing going for apple it's operating system?
why would we want to run windows on some sealed little box?
hooray. look ma. oh, the irony. now throw it away and can we get back to booting real PCs? - FullMetalMonkey, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0Intersting but who wants Windows on there Mac!
Certainly not me! - babbling, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0Who cares?
MacOS -> Windows is a downgrade. - nato64, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0i still don't understand why the hell anyone would want to put windows on an iMac... is it a proof of concept or something?
- windsok, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0nothing new, just repeating what was already done a month ago - http://nak.journalspace.com/?entryid=412
no digg - linuxpunk81, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0I'm SOOOOOOOOOOOO tired of this sigh
- Jammerdelray, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0windows on a mac lmao....umm yea pay a rip off price for a mac when you can pay 1/2 the price for a pc.
- kolop1, on 10/12/2007, -4/+0 I don't get it. If you want to boot Windows why buy a Mac? What can a Mac do that Windows cant. Now I can think of one thing windows can do that a Mac cant. Gaming anyone?
- KillerX, on 10/12/2007, -4/+0"Now I can think of one thing windows can do that a Mac cant. Gaming anyone?"
I play games on my G5 all the time, Call of Duty, UT2004, Battlefield, Doom 3, Tiger Woods, SIMS.
Just face it, Windows blows, OS X Rules, NO reason to dual boot. Lame, no digg.
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