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04/10/2006, 1:50pm, EDT
Monday, April 10th
Vista installs, boots on Intel Macs
An avid Mac user has managed to install and boot Windows Vista an on Intel Mac, according to report on the OSx86 Project website. The site says that despite Apple's beta release of its Boot Camp software and several previous successful attempts at getting the installer to work, actually making Vista run on an Intel Mac has still proven to be quite a challenge. The user has taken screenshots of his success, but says he had to delete the Mac OS X partition to get Vista running. The OSx86 Project, which says it is a good start and congratulated the user in a blog post, earlier this year was served a DMCA notice by Apple and forced to shut down its user forums after it posted content that listed steps to install Mac OS X for Intel on non-Mac hardware.
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here talk to my son anthony...
Questioning on 'why' just makes people look like zealots. Short answers would be : because we can, because we need to, because it helps us get a mac instead of something else.
See a video here I shot of XP booting in 10 seconds on my MacBook Pro.
http://www.godsipod.com/xponmac/
Note that you need to allow cookies from macnn.us.intellitext.com (or something like that).
Wonder what secret DLL ensures THAT?
Before you tell me to adjust my tinfoil hat(tm), remember that M$ is an Apple Developer, and thus is perfectly capable of knowing what to check for, to see if Vista is being installed on a Mac. Why they would CARE, is another story entirely.
Discuss.