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Would you run another OS on a Mac Intel?

Would you?

  • Yes

    Votes: 102 53.1%

  • No

    Votes: 70 36.5%

  • Undecided

    Votes: 20 10.4%
  • Total voters
    192
Somewhat depends on how slick they can make a dual boot interface. If they can figure out some way to make the two OSes run in environments that make them easy to switch between, or if VPC gets to run at close to native speed I will install Windows to be able to use some of my engineering apps that don't have Mac equivalents. However if it requires rebooting to use them I'll probably stick with my 2 computer setup.
 
i bought mac cuz its pretty

and ill load windows onto it as my primary OS

i speak the truth
 
Wine isn't that great though is it? How far have they come in emulating performance? 3D and video etc?
 
I am much more interested in a Virtual PC/VMWare setup, or, even better, a Wine-like translation layer. That said, the only reason I would do it to test web designes on IE and Firefox for Windows. Not much of a gamer and MUCH prefer OS X to anything else out there.
 
I probably wouldn't dual boot, because OS X is suiting my needs well as of now. But I think that the prospect of a dual boot is a good one because it will make switchers less nervous about switching if they know that they can, as a last resort get windows back
 
I'd probably put XP on it. To be honest, I'm just about to buy a Dell for XP (replace an older one). I don't mind the bastard. Of course, I'd never use it as a primary OS. :)
 
I too would probably stick XP on it so i could occasionally use the small little apps that i may need for instance DVDshrink and a few games, but it would never become more than a utility OS.

Shadow
 
Doesn't this whole topic hinge on if Apple uses a motherboard chipset with drivers for Windows? I haven't a clue how things will turn out but it seems unlikely that Apple would actively design the new Mactel systems to be fully Windows compatible boxes.

On a side note if they are capable of running XP or 2000 I would dual boot for playing Half Life 2 on the go (Laptops all the way).
 
jer2eydevil88 said:
Doesn't this whole topic hinge on if Apple uses a motherboard chipset with drivers for Windows? I haven't a clue how things will turn out but it seems unlikely that Apple would actively design the new Mactel systems to be fully Windows compatible boxes.
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Good point. Perhaps they'll make it near impossible for us to run Windows? What sort of limitations can they actually put on? The Developer boxes are fairly standard PC parts but Apple has said they're just the first incarnation. I hope they find a way (perhaps impossible) to stop OSX running on other PC's but allow Dual boots. Dual booting could definitely boost Mac sales.
 
harveypooka said:
Good point. Perhaps they'll make it near impossible for us to run Windows? What sort of limitations can they actually put on?
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There's not much in the way of reasons for them to intentionally break Windows, but ensuring compatibility isn't likely to be very high on their list of priorities :) Any breakage would probably be a short term obstacle, assuming that they continue releasing Darwin source updates and the important devices are covered at that level. At worst, it will take interested people a while to probe around and figure out how to talk to any weird Apple parts.
 
camomac said:
wow. what a novel idea, having half your computer virus free, and the other half full of crap...
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I couldn't put it better. I hate the idea (even with a partition drive, nay, even with two separate drives) of having a cluttered, viral, spyware-infested, ugly, bloated, unsecured OS like windows sharing the same space as the piece of beauty that is OS X. For that reason I have two machines: My powerbook that I love, adore and use all the time, and My devil of an HP crap-box that serves one purpose in life: Halo Multiplayer!

Every time I get on that HP, I just can't stand how the experience leaves me feeling bombarded by ads and erros and freezes, and, well, it leaves me wanting to get back to my mac.

I think if I wanted to run any PC stuff, I would prefer to be able to boot it from an external drive so that I could keep my mac stuff contained.
 
harveypooka said:
Would you run another OS on your future Macintel? Would you dual boot, games machine, Linux - whatever. What would be your setup?
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My guess is that if we can dual boot, we will be able to triple boot. If so:

- Mac OS X

- Winders

- Linux

One computer able to run three OS. Wonderful. Simply wonderful! :)

Sushi
 
sushi said:
My guess is that if we can dual boot, we will be able to triple boot. If so:

- Mac OS X

- Winders

- Linux

One computer able to run three OS. Wonderful. Simply wonderful! :)

Sushi
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I see the appeal in this, I really do. I'm even excited for those of us mac users who will have an elegant solution for the problem of too-much-hardware-crap-itis, but I simply have no need for anything but X, at this time.
 
Do any of you guys suppose the ability to dual boot might hurt Apple. I've heard that this was a mistake IBM made with OS/2 warp (lol, remember those commercials?) when they made their stuff dual-bootable, thus removing any incentive for developers to make software for OS/2 since a user could just boot into windows to run it.
 
Probably not.

I have believe Wine should take care of all Windows spesific needs (not that I have any at the moment).

The only thing is that it might be nice to have a version of the latest IE for Windows running, for testing purposes, like wordmunger said, other than that I don't see why... :)
 
Most certainly yes.

As much as I think Windows should come with a Surgeon General's Health Warning, I have to use it.
 
If I can get a dual core 64-bit apple notebook with a decent video card that will dual boot with Windows, I can get rid of (or not purchase to begin with) 3 other machines. That saves my company a ton of money. Apple would be my machine of choice instead of Dell now.
 
Xenious said:
No, but I would run Virtual PC. Especially if current 3d games could run at full speed.
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Same here. I'm getting my Mac so I can use it as a Mac, I'm nor too fussed about games as I've got my PS2 and I'll have a PS3 too when they come out. But if VPC works good then I'll use it for games.
 
Haven't people been running Windows on their macs for a good while now ith Virtual PC?

Well at least with Intel inside we'll be able to run native Windows or a much faster Virtual PC that's comparable.

Personally I love OS-X and all of the software I use is Mac based, however in the studio we do have an old PC running Money 2006 & TAS which I would love to throw into a skip and replace with a Mac, so yes I probably would run Windows on a mac if only for this purpose, A Intel Mini would be nice.
 
I would run some version of windows to run games, that is until they port them to Mac. If I ever do put windows on my Mac I'd make sure that it boots off of another drive or partition and have it as 'bare bones' as possible... Hopefully limiting the maintance requirements ... maybe :rolleyes:
 
Heck yes I would! I would put Windowze on a second drive as to not pollute the main. I have two apps that I run in Win, Ultima Online and the upcoming Elderscrolls Four: Oblivion. All else is mac.
 
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