More on Booting Windows on the Intel Mac?

[pgwalsh]

I must be insane- but I am much more interested in the idea of loading the Apple OS onto my windows machines, rather than running windows on my Mac.

I like Apple for the OS, not for the hardware.

I'll be insane with you.

 

[eme jota ce]

Contest / Reward to Boot Windows XP on inTel Mac

some guy is offering a cash reward to anyone or group that can boot Windows XP on the intel macs.

Anyone here interested in contributing to or reaping the reward should see the link below for details.




http://winxponmac.com/The Contest.html

 

[artifex]

To me there is very little confusion about why people are spending their time and energy to get Windows to run on Apple hardware. Put simply, they are doing it because it hasn't been done before. Let's say someone manages a sloppy hack and gets Vista to run. A month later someone will still be working to make the process easier and more "novice friendly". You work at it for days and weeks at a time because it is challenging. If, after you're done, someone uses your discovery to run Outlook on an iMac, so be it. For most this is not the primary motivation.

For some people, simply standing in awe of a majestic mountain is thrilling enough; others are compelled to climb.

Here's to getting Pro/E on a PowerMac by 2007!!

That's not what confuses me. What confuses me is when idiots go and brick their systems, and then whine about it, claiming it's Apple's fault that they were able to screw them up.

 

[pawnstar]

It's getting reported on other sites eg

http://www.mobilegamefaqs.com/newsstory.php?id=385

btw there's some info here for people who may have messed up their intel mac's efi:

http://nak.journalspace.com/?cmd=displaycomments&dcid=407&entryid=407

 

[FaasNat]

I must be insane- but I am much more interested in the idea of loading the Apple OS onto my windows machines, rather than running windows on my Mac.

I like Apple for the OS, not for the hardware.

That's kinda how I feel......

I mean, their hardware is nice, but I'm okay with running OS X on "regular" looking hardware as long as it's OS X.

Though I'd still want to be able to boot Windows so I can play my games....

 

[asherman13]

That's kinda how I feel......

I mean, their hardware is nice, but I'm okay with running OS X on "regular" looking hardware as long as it's OS X.

Personally, I'm addicted to both Mac hardware and software. I also, however, wouldn't mind being able to play a few games.

Anybody had any luck yet with dual booting?

 

[mercury26]

To me there is very little confusion about why people are spending their time and energy to get Windows to run on Apple hardware. Put simply, they are doing it because it hasn't been done before.

You must not work in a corporation where the majority of the users are Windows and MS Office users. I use a PowerBook and use the MS Office suite (Entourage, Word, Excel, etc), but the suite does not contain Visio or Microsoft Project. I get many, many, many files in MPP and Visio Drawing (vdx) format. For me to convert, requires me to VPN back into my office to convert to something my Mac will recognize, for instance Visio XML or JPG. Since I travel a lot this not always practical, but man would be great to boot into Windows so I can convert files. Also, I get technical tools for equipment I work with that is Windows only and not always work with VPC. So it would be great to boot in to Windows mode, do my work and then move on back to the Mac. A lot of people in the business community are forced to work in a dual world, having the equipment to handle it is invaluable.

Cheers,

CHuck