starforge Posted April 5, 2006 Report Share Posted April 5, 2006 Run Windows on a Mac natively!The public beta is available for download http://www.apple.com/macosx/bootcamp/ Link to comment
uhohzitzcooky Posted April 5, 2006 Report Share Posted April 5, 2006 I was so eagar to dl. then i read the requirements. >_< needs intel mac...(well duh) my ibook is so old now. Nice though, with this, hopefully in the near future, dual booting Leopard and Vista on a pc will be possible? One can only wish. Link to comment
iChuck Posted April 5, 2006 Report Share Posted April 5, 2006 Woah! This is BIG news! Nativly? dang. This might let more people have Macs in their office by dual booting. And great news for Switchers, who will need to run their old, and sometimes necessary, apps. So it seems that they they are saying that it will run just as fast, not like with Virtual PC. Awesome, it sounds great. Link to comment
iGo Posted April 5, 2006 Report Share Posted April 5, 2006 I just wish that Leopord doesn't become last OSX variant to come out !! I just wish that this rumour stays rumour : http://www.aqua-soft.org/board/showthread.php?t=32795 besides that... check out these sweet quirks from Apple to Microsoft, with love !! EFI and BIOSMacs use an ultra-modern industry standard technology called EFI to handle booting. Sadly, Windows XP, and even the upcoming Vista, are stuck in the 1980s with old-fashioned BIOS. But with Boot Camp, the Mac can operate smoothly in both centuries. Word to the Wise Windows running on a Mac is like Windows running on a PC. That means it’ll be subject to the same attacks that plague the Windows world. So be sure to keep it updated with the latest Microsoft Windows security fixes. Link to comment
zondajag Posted April 5, 2006 Report Share Posted April 5, 2006 wow wow wow wow....imagine running games like doom3 and half-life 2 and battlefield 2....wouldnt it be so cool if macs could play proper games?!!!! Link to comment
Zaft Posted April 5, 2006 Report Share Posted April 5, 2006 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4880022.stm Link to comment
Nostarion Posted April 5, 2006 Report Share Posted April 5, 2006 Now would be an excellent time for Apple to start selling MacBooks... Link to comment
Tagmaster Posted April 5, 2006 Report Share Posted April 5, 2006 Amazing makes me more confident of getting a mini with Intel Solo Link to comment
zondajag Posted April 5, 2006 Report Share Posted April 5, 2006 ''The release of Boot Camp comes only weeks after two hackers managed to get Windows XP running on an Intel-based Mac themselves. The pair won a $13,000 (£7,405) prize for their trouble.''wow the lucky devils did it and then cashed in....score! Link to comment
ReidMedia Posted April 5, 2006 Report Share Posted April 5, 2006 Thats great news. Just wondering, is it possible to run Mac OSX on a PC? Or is this impossible because of the differences between BIOS and EFI? That would be great Link to comment
zondajag Posted April 5, 2006 Report Share Posted April 5, 2006 no its not impossible ....infact its very possible...tonnes of people have already done it Link to comment
Ken Posted April 5, 2006 Report Share Posted April 5, 2006 From tuaw.com:"Here's what won't work in Windows on your Intel Mac: * iSight * Apple Remote * Apple USB modem * keyboard backlighting on the MacBook Pro"Ok, it's still in beta, but Windows intoduction on Macs has started with disappointments.Well, that's (i)life! Link to comment
g8trtim Posted April 5, 2006 Report Share Posted April 5, 2006 you guys beat me to it... i was just about to toss this link up... glad i searched first lolboot camp is great and all but i'll buy the macbook w/ leopard and the functionality of running both xp and osx at the same time, without the need to dual boot.very promising work tho... im ready for my new laptop Link to comment
Timan Posted April 5, 2006 Report Share Posted April 5, 2006 Now we just need apple to ship my next mac with xp instead of that pos operating system osx. That way I don't have to go through all the trouble... Link to comment
ShadyApple Posted April 5, 2006 Report Share Posted April 5, 2006 this is awsome, i might have to buy a external hd for windows and provide about half the space on it for vista. i dont wanna split my mac hd, thats purely for mac. Link to comment
zondajag Posted April 5, 2006 Report Share Posted April 5, 2006 i thought vista wouldnt be able to run on macs as the core duos are 64bit?...or are you talking about the beta version? Link to comment
Zaft Posted April 5, 2006 Report Share Posted April 5, 2006 They should merger into a super duper OS company confusing consumers and fanboys alike!What sounds better; Micropple or Applesoft? Link to comment
rjohnstone Posted April 5, 2006 Report Share Posted April 5, 2006 i thought vista wouldnt be able to run on macs as the core duos are 64bit?...or are you talking about the beta version?M$ announced a coupe of weeks ago that they were removing EFI support from Vista.The CPU is not an issue for Vista and the Core Solo/Duo are not 64 bit... they have EMT64 support. Basically they are the dual core Pentium D 9xx CPU's.Idiots at M$ keep stripping this thing of all that was making it worth while.So anyway, Apple picked up the slack and created a "patch" to allow Windows to work on an EFI based PC. Link to comment
ShadyApple Posted April 5, 2006 Report Share Posted April 5, 2006 They should merger into a super duper OS company confusing consumers and fanboys alike!What sounds better; Micropple or Applesoft?lol i think there both pretty stupid, but if i had to choose one it'd be the 2nd. Link to comment
sean.fletcher Posted April 5, 2006 Report Share Posted April 5, 2006 Macrosoft?Wait... no, that would be the end of the universe, sorry Link to comment
ShadyApple Posted April 5, 2006 Report Share Posted April 5, 2006 how about micromac or macinsoft? Link to comment
Septimus Posted April 5, 2006 Report Share Posted April 5, 2006 So far it's working great if anyone is interested Link to comment
sean.fletcher Posted April 5, 2006 Report Share Posted April 5, 2006 is windows fast on your mac? Link to comment
Chazoul Posted April 5, 2006 Report Share Posted April 5, 2006 That's simply Amazing... Link to comment
Septimus Posted April 5, 2006 Report Share Posted April 5, 2006 Yeah very fast. Feels, in general use at least, as quick as my P4 3.4EE. I'm sure it isn't under heavy load, but for most things it's great. Link to comment
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