Macs can now run Windows XP

[zedaxax]

its a beta
http://www.apple.com/macosx/bootcamp/

[graemek]

Would anyone actually what to run windows xp on a mac?, i think mac osx is much superior in a lot of ways

[peat moss]

Would anyone actually what to run windows xp on a mac?, i think mac osx is much superior in a lot of ways


I'm thinking games right off the bat , that way Mac users don't have to wait for ports . I posted a thread in News aswell but seem to have more feedback in this forum . It's a win win for Apple and Microsoft , you need the Mac hardware and O/S and a copy of Win xp to run the dual boot .

Now all thats needed is the Virus writers to complete the circle . :whistling
There's a writeup of someone who's tried it here :

http://news.zdnet.com/Macs+do+Windows+with+no+streaks,+tests+show/2100-1040_22-6059074.html?part=netscape-zdnet&tag=mynetscape&subj=technews

[peat moss]

I read this story today and thought we have more qualified people on this forum to write a better review than these schmucks . Clocker being one .


http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=30870

[andremario]

I think that is the way to sell more apples computers.

[twisterX]

this is very good. Hell I want a Mac now.

[Tempestv]

I was reading a review about the dual boot capabulity a couple of days ago, and they were saying that mac was claiming that this system would let them break into the corporate world more, and this review would was saying that the only way that this tecnology will actually make it into the corperate world is in publishing houses and such where Macs are seen as a "necessary evil" due to mac's dominace in the graphics world, would be able to switch to windows when they aren't running Mac specific software. it's gotta be bad for mac when they realise that you can now run windows on a mac, and the reply is "good, now I'm not forced to use mac all the time"

[twisterX]

I don't get why Mac's are better in graphics.

Windows opens photoshop in like 8 seconds and Mac on a PC Intel machine takes about 30-40 seconds.

Maybe its becuase im not using a true mac. :unsure:

[Tempestv]

i've never understood it either
I know that there are mac only graphics programs out there, so for some stuff, I guess you have no choice. why those programs are mac only I have no idea

[Virtualbody1234]

I read this story today and thought we have more qualified people on this forum to write a better review than these schmucks . Clocker being one .


http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=30870
Why are you calling clocker a schmuck? ;)

[delimare]

this is very good. Hell I want a Mac now.

I'll second that. I have been against Macs from the get go, but now it seems the times are a changing.

[peat moss]

I read this story today and thought we have more qualified people on this forum to write a better review than these schmucks . Clocker being one .


http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=30870
Why are you calling clocker a schmuck? ;)


You know I'm not ! :P

Had a laff at all the reports of Mac's crashing from this story :'Boot Camp users reporting serious crashes'.

http://news.zdnet.com/Boot+Camp+users+reporting+serious+crashes/2100-3513_22-6059963.html?part=netscape-zdnet&tag=mynetscape&subj=technews

[Spicker]

i have a iBook G4, now i dont even touch windows!

MACs ROCK!!

[Wolfmight]

:pissed off that PC's can hardly run OSx86:

I wish Apple would go the other way around sometime. (They said they wern't gonna release an iPod with Video, but they did!) There's still hope /fingerscrossed.

[peat moss]

I see there's another program called Parallels that works now too . If I read it right you don't have to reboot ?

http://www.parallels.com/en/products/workstation/mac/