apcmag.com — Intel says motherboards based on the Intel 945 chipset (like Apple's new systems) already support EFI and can boot Windows with no problems. The key appears to be whether Apple has included a "compatibility support module".
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drakinoJan 13, 2006
Agreed with Gerkin. Someone buy a new iMac, and hack at it. Until that happens, stop posting crap to blogs to generate traffic about what may or may not work. This is getting worse then all the wrong rumors leading up to Apple events.
nogamiJan 13, 2006
deepsub: Why wouldn't you want a laptop that you could run every major OS that you like on? There are LOTS of great applications (not to mention games) that have not, and will never come out for OS-X... Wouldn't you prefer spending the money on a machine that runs _everything_?
zodiemanJan 14, 2006
Everyone is now talking about booting Windows on the new Intel Macs. What I want to know is, what has Apple done in the final version of OS X to prevent it from running on whitebox PC boxes? The dev version was hacked to run, now that it's out I wonder who much they learned and put in. Did they use some DRM? Did they couple it with some extra chips to auth the kernel? Are they using EFI to prevent that?As for booting Windows directly, I don't care about that. VMware is where it's at! Those Core chips have virtualization built-in.
svensonJan 14, 2006
Tomorrow on DIGG it will say the exact opposite...AGAIN!
rabiddogmaJan 14, 2006
Okay so Apple execs have said from the begining that they would have no problem with people dual booting Win on Apple Intels, so what is the story here?
deepsubJan 14, 2006
"Wouldn't you prefer spending the money on a machine that runs _everything_?"Heh... you guys take me too seriously. I was trying to make a joke, apparently, it didn't work.
nullmindJan 15, 2006
People, like myself, boot things that aren't compatible all the time... Had to get new shoes..
neofactorJan 22, 2006
who the hell wants to dual boot XP and OS X?Give me virtual PC on the mac intel... I can live on my mac and use the occasionall Win app without leaving the mac behind.
sud0n1mJan 22, 2006
Lets get it started: <a class="user" href="http://digg.com/apple/Contest_to_Boot_Windows_XP_on_Intel_Mac">http://digg.com/apple/Contest_to_Boot_Windows_XP_on_Intel_Mac</a>