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April 5, 2006 9:23 AM

Show of Hands: Who Wants Windows XP on Their Macs?



Apple says, due to overwhelming user demand, it is developing software that will allow customers to dual boot Windows XP and Mac OS X on Intel-based Macs. Apple rolled out on Wednesday a public beta version of "Boot Camp," which it plans to make a feature of "Leopard," the next version of the Mac OS, which Apple will show off this August. We're curious, though: Who out there really wants to run Windows on a Mac? Mac users are true believers in the Mac OS; Windows users might like the prettier hardware, but would that be enough of a reason to move to a dual boot setup? We want to hear from Windows users who are interested in moving to Mac hardware. Are you out there?

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Jonathan Scolamiero :

There was a "predictive" post about this by Dvorak from PC Magazine a little while back. Somewhat interesting.

William Breedlove :

Some of you may remember: The DOS Compatibility card circa 1995. It ran Windows and MAC OS in a queasy dual boot format, sort of. Fact is this type of ability for a MAC was quickly abandoned in 1996. This type of feature was replaced with software variant that could allow DOS/Windows to run on a MAC, remember Virtual PC. Virtual PC was bought by Microsoft around 2003. Now its 2006 and the buzz is that Windows on a MAC as a dual boot is coming? BIG Deal! What would be news worthy is the ability for a PC or a MAC hardware to run any OS. This includes Windows, MAC OS, or even any Linux variant. You want to level the OS playing field; get the hardware manufacturers and the software manufacturers’ to develop OS’s that can really work together.

ute otw :

Rumors have been around for a long time and hackers have succeeded weeks ago http://www.onmac.net/ , http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Spb-bzXWZQ0 , http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGGtrkZ6088 .Anyway, predictable move from Apple. They must think they can attract Win users to OSX because of this dual boot... and therefore also increase their market share... well may be.Clever move from Apple to announce this now and not when they released the Intel CPU Macs, otherwise the news would not have had the same impact.I want a Mac Pro that runs Windows (yes I'm vain) and Windows only ... I don't care about OSX. I have too many apps that don't exist on OSX but I'll wait for the 17" screen version with bigger resolution. 1440x900 is useless. Anyway, I'll have to wait for a solution to remove OSX completely and this one for sure won't come from Apple.But let's get one thing straight. WinXP-64 and WinVista can boot with EFI... 64bit EFI that is. For some reason Apple decided to use obsolete 32bit EFI on Macs. I'm mad at Apple to have done that and I'm mad at MS not to support 32-bit EFI.

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