Winxponmac.com is a brand new site, obviously created with iWeb, that will give a large amount of money to anyone who can boot Windows XP on a new Intel Mac. The prize is currently at $247, with 7 donations.
There has been a lot of commotion recently about this topic, and many believe it will be a while before someone manages to configure XP to actually work on an Intel Mac. From what I have heard, the main problem revolves around the BIOS in most Windows PCs.
I would be surprised and very happy to see someone pull this off. Hopefully, we can somehow either get XP or Vista working on a Mac. But I think it is ironic that us Mac users actually want to use Windows, while we complain about how bad it is.
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YC says:
From the best of my understanding, the INTEL iMacs uses the Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI), instead of the regular BIOS, to boot up the OS.
(http://technocratsoapbox.blogspot.com/2006/01/macworld-expo-2006-day-3.html)
Windows XP is not designed to use EFI…unless someone can reverse engineer the OS and get it to work with EFI.
But why even bother with Windows XP? If someone out there has a Beta Version of Windows Vista (which can use EFI), he/she could potentially install it on the INTEL iMAC.
January 23rd, 2006 at 12:59 am
Andy Merrett says:
Yes I believe that’s true, YC – it won’t be until Vista that this will be possible – but then that is without hackers at work – we can’t say it’s impossible.
My question is why would you want to boot Windows of any flavour on a Mac? I sure wouldn’t.
January 23rd, 2006 at 4:08 am
Species 8472 says:
Why? The ‘because you can’, principle. You can’t do it at the moment, but you want to. To be able to do it – then not do it. But say ‘you can.’
January 23rd, 2006 at 2:46 pm
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