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Windows XP on a Mac Contest Winner
by , 8:35 AM EST, March 16th, 2006
Colin Nederkoorn's contest to create a dual-booting Intel Mac that runs both Mac OS X and Windows XP is officially over, and a winner has been announced. According to the Windows XP on an Intel Mac Web site, the winner, known as "narf," will get the US$13,854 prize.
Part of the requirements for the contest winner include posting the steps to set up a dual booting Mac on the contest Web site. The proceeder has been verified, but is not yet available.
Prior to the winner announcement, many people felt it wouldn't be possible to set up an Intel-based Mac to boot either Mac OS X or Windows XP because the Mac does not include BIOS, which is a low-level hardware component that Windows relies on during the startup process.
A video showing an Intel-based iMac booting Windows XP is available at the Engadget Web site.
Observer Comments
Thu Mar 16, 2006 10:50 am Subject: Before you break out the Champaign...
It seems like a brilliant scam.
1. Get a bunch of people to donate thousands of dollars.
2. Video record a Dell starting up.
3. Play it full-screen on an iMac. (It was too dark to see the mouse and keyboard actually being used).
4. Keep the money and go drinkin' with your mates.
5. Brilliant!!!
I'd wait to see if the process can be duplicated (if it is ever published).
Thu Mar 16, 2006 11:42 am Subject: proceeder or procedure?
Thu Mar 16, 2006 12:39 pm Subject: Looking at the donations. . .
It would seem to me that though this is definitely newsworthy, I would think that if one could find a way to run windows programs in OSX without the virus laden windows holes that would be exciting. It would scare me to run windows on my Mac without all the expense and frustration of anti-virus and anti-spyware. Thats one reason I use a Mac.
QuoteRoyalJimP wrote:
It would seem to me that though this is definitely newsworthy, I would think that if one could find a way to run windows programs in OSX without the virus laden windows holes that would be exciting. It would scare me to run windows on my Mac without all the expense and frustration of anti-virus and anti-spyware. Thats one reason I use a Mac.
Totally agree. Also if you have to break your workflow to reboot your computer just to run one program, it destroys the convenience of having both OSes together. It's much tidier to have a Windows-type layer in OSX running apps headlessly at full speed. I don't know if we'll ever get that though.
Thu Mar 16, 2006 7:14 pm Subject: The process is up on the web to get an intel Mac to boot XP
Thu Mar 16, 2006 9:25 pm Subject: Re: Windows XP inside of OSX
QuoteAnonymous wrote:
RoyalJimP wrote:
"I would think that if one could find a way to run windows programs in OSX without the virus laden windows holes that would be exciting."
It seems this can be done by using WinTel software by OpenOSX. Here is their site.
http://openosx.com/wintel/
And an article in MacWorld about the software;
http://www.macworld.com/news/2006/03/15/wintel/index.php
Have a good one, BB
Unfortunately it is dog slow, at least compared to native running.
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