Windows XP on Intel Mac Confirmed

niemassacre writes "According to winxponmac.com, the contest has been won - nearly $14k to narf2006 for submitting a working solution to dual-booting Windows XP and Mac OS X on an Intel-Powered mac. A thread on osx86project.org has confirmations from several testers that the procedure works on the 17" iMac, the Mac mini, and the MacBook Pro. Many sets of pictures and videos (such as this installation video) are floating around (and mentioned in the thread). The solution itself should be posted soon." Poit! Congratulations to narf.

Cool.

[bazmail]

But does it run Linux?

Wow

[2.7182]

Now I can dual boot a good and bad OS. (I am not saying which is which!)

1984

[Anonymous Coward]

My friends, each of you is a single cell in the great body of the
state. And today, that great body has purged itself of parasites.
We have triumphed over the unprincipled dissemination of facts.
The thugs and wreckers have been cast out and the poisonous
weeds of disinformation have been cosigned to the dustbin of
history. Let each and every cell rejoice! For today we
celebrate the first, glorious anniversary of the Information
Purification Directive.

We have created, for the first time in all history, a garden of
pure ideology, where each worker may bloom secure from the pests
of contradictory and confusing truths. Our unification of thought
is a more powerful weapon than any fleet or army on earth! We are
one people. With one will. One resolve. One cause. Our enemies
shall talk themselves to death, and we will bury them with their
own confusion. We shall prevail!
                                -- Big Brother, Apple's "1984" commercial

Obligatory Pink and the Brain Follow Up

[Philosinfinity]

Brain: Pinky, are you thinking what I'm thinking? Pinky: I think so Brain but where are we going to find rubber pants and sod at this time of night?

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

[ocp]

If now somebody figures out how to triple boot and add Linux then I will be able to boot a good, a bad and an ugly OS (and I'm not saying either which is which!).

In other news...

[Half a dent]

ipods adapted so all audio output is in mono. Graphics on imacs converted to 16 color. Mac mouse to only have one button... oops.

Phew!

[gentlemen_loser]

Now that the public has done the work Bill's engineers should have done for Vista, he'll be able to sleep much better at night. /sarcasm

Re:soo.....

[cgenman]

To stop doing something, first you must have started doing it.

Re:Why?

[moro_666]

Well shit is there too, but you don't step into it just because of the fact that it's possible to do it, or do you ?

May i be damned if i let m$ anywhere near a mac.

Re:Can't play the video

[787style]

Using the Quick Time player on Windows XP it says required compressor not available (1st time I tried it also said not available on server)... what do I need?

An Intel Mac, obviously.

Look at what you've done!

[Runefox]

Now we have to put up with Mac OS XP! Where will we put the Start button?

Re:Why?

[AnonymousPrick]

Because you're not a Mac user who lives in the Windows world.

I'm thinking of writing a book about a Windows guy who disguises himself as a Mac user to see what it's like.

I call it: "Mac Like Me".

Sounds cool, huh?

mac problems running Windows XP

[Anonymous Coward]

I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you Mac fanatics? I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a Mac (a 8600/300 w/64 Megs of RAM) for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to load Windows XP. 20 minutes. At home, on my Pentium Pro 200 running NT 4, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this Mac, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.

In addition, during this file transfer, Netscape will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even BBEdit Lite is straining to keep up as I type this.

I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various Macs, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a Mac that has run faster than its Wintel counterpart, despite the Macs' faster chip architecture. My 486/66 with 8 megs of ram runs faster than this 300 mhz machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that the Macintosh is a superior machine.

Mac addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use a Mac over other faster, cheaper, more stable systems.

Moreover...

[WormholeFiend]

which fashionable and trend-setting color shall the Screen of Death be?

Re:Why?

[The Fun Guy]

it's like I bought a very fast Mac, then just over two weeks later I received a very fast PC of equivalent specs for free.

Not quite free, since you have to buy a copy of XP.

Um...

You *did* pay for that copy of XP, right?

Re:Mirror of the movie

[frankie]

I just hope the guy uses an eensy bit of his $13k to buy a camera tripod. Sheesh that was some shaky video.

I thought that was Steve Job's Business Philosphy

[Anonymous Coward]

It's common to market your weakness as a strength. As a loyal Apple Owner from 1981-1985 the Mac with is sealed case, lack of color, lack of expansion slots for innovations, lack of memory expansion (after all 128k was all the memory any user should ever need) to me was an attempt by Big Brother Jobs to control my computer world and brainwash me into thinking I was lucky to have no choices with the machine. Just click you single button and you will be happy.

In 1984 many of us Full-Color computer users slung a giant sledge hammer at the B&W dictator that was Steve Jobs and bought the Amiga. The only truly innovative PC to come after the Apple ][.

OSX users unite!!! Throw off the shackles of Jobism and embrace choice. Do something really Cool like run OSX on the PC or Notebook of your choice.!!! Be Free!!!!

Sound of door being broken down.....

No .. I didn't mean it.. Please no Please Shots fired in the background screaming

I must sign off the Apple Thought Police have destroyed my home built PCs and tablet computer. They have chained me to this odd little white notebook that looks like a prop from "Buck Rodgers in the 25th Century..."

AKK! (Sound of pistol whipping)

Yes it is very cool. White and Silver are my friend... Whack!!! Ug yes one button is best.. Wack... Jobs is my God!!! I hear and I Fanboy... Microsoft Sucks Long live the freedom from choices Apple gives us so we can be creative!!! Long Live Jobs!! Long Live Jobs....

Re:Obligatory Pink and the Brain Follow Up

[robvs68]

Hey Brain, what are we going to do tomorrow night?

The same thing we do every night, Pinky. Try to tripple boot OSX/WinXP/Linix!

Narf!!

Re:soo.....

[damppa]

Yes. Aspyr ran out of business immediatly after this press release.

Re:The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

[jaiyen]

The price of Apple hardware, the security of Windows, the user-friendliness of Linux all on one machine - what's not to like ?

Re:The Good, the Bad, the Ugly, and the In Denial

[David_W]

A quadruple boot of OS X, M-Windows, Linux, and OS/2.

The good, the bad, the ugly, and the OH GOD MAKE IT STOP!?

(And yes, I too leave matching the categories to the OS as an exercise to the reader...)

Re:The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

[Beetjebrak]

OSX, Windows, Linux, FreeBSD... ..in random order: the good, the bad, the ugly.. and the dead.

Re:So where's the meat?

[Slashcrap]

Where can I get this? I haven't found any details or downloads yet...

As this is for a Mac, there will be no free download. It will instead be provided as a $25 shareware package - just like every other useful little utility.

"Vista's GUI"

[mnemonic_]

as opposed to running Vista console-only?

Re:why why why why

[Slashcrap]

why would you pay all that cash for a great workstation to just take it out the box & dump XP on it....

Well speaking personally, I'm going to buy a MacBook Pro and install XP on it purely to piss off you and the rest of the Apple zealots.

For an encore I'm then going to video myself smashing it into thousands of little pieces and post it on the net. I figure that at least a few thousand zealots will die due to excessive rage. And that has to be worth a couple of thousand dollars.

Re:Lawsuit?

[earthloop]

maybe more than 30% of the dual booters will actually pay for a Windows license

A percent (%) character seems to have slipped in there. ;o)

Re:Obligatory Pink and the Brain Follow Up

[Philosinfinity]

I'm trying to think of an amusing reply whereby i fit the criteria barely bacause of manboobs, but I am scared of giving off the wrong idea.

Re:Mirror of the movie

[greg1104]

You drink as much caffeine as narf did to get this accomplished and we'll see how much your hands shake.

Re:A lot more useful! Excellent!

[lucifuge31337]

I want the option to switch to a Windows LPAR running concurrently on the box

LPAR? LPAR?????
You, sir, have obviously used a real machine before. Which means your posts may be filled with actual facts. You must stop posting immediately.

and What about AROS?

[olahaye74]

Can I install AROS as well?
http://www.aros.org/ [aros.org]

that way I could quintuple boot
- a dream OS
- a good OS
- a bad OS
- an ugly OS
- a dead OS

I'm not saying what OS is a dream OS.

Re:why why why why

[bnenning]

Well speaking personally, I'm going to buy a MacBook Pro and install XP on it purely to piss off you and the rest of the Apple zealots. For an encore I'm then going to video myself smashing it into thousands of little pieces and post it on the net.

As an Apple shareholder, I recommend you buy *many* Macs and destroy them in creative ways.

disabling good hardware considered cool?

[wardk]

wow, if I put a bullet in my mac, will it run as well as XP on my mac?

Re:the real question is

[Confuzzled]

Wow, in my universe we're still at 10.4.5!

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