Windows XP boots on Intel macs!

[pol pot]

http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?si ... 6&from=rss

bah, linux beat it to the "first" title anyway

[cyan]

thought this was done years ago ...

[pol pot]

thought this was done years ago ...

Posted by Zonk on Thursday March 16, @02:57PM

[a thing]

<a href="http://www.mathcaddy.com/windowsxpbootsonamac!!!!1/">It was done a while ago.</a>

Why aren't URL tags working?

[esteel]

Why aren't URL tags working?

Because:
HTML is OFF
BBCode is ON

But nevertheless the forum has problems with this url.. it does not even work with bbcode.. Best thing is to copy the url into the browser. (yeah the !!!!1 is part of the url.. guess thats causing the problems)
http://www.mathcaddy.com/windowsxpbootsonamac!!!!1/

[pol pot]

Why aren't URL tags working?

Because:
HTML is OFF
BBCode is ON

But nevertheless the forum has problems with this url.. it does not even work with bbcode.. Best thing is to copy the url into the browser. (yeah the !!!!1 is part of the url.. guess thats causing the problems)
http://www.mathcaddy.com/windowsxpbootsonamac!!!!1/

roflle

[Willis]

thats because !'s are not a vaild url character, they need to be encoded into unicode.

>>> This is what they've been trying to link us to <<<

[Ed]

Is it really that important though? The Mactel laptops are just rebranded Asus laptops afterall. Why not buy a PC which uses cheaper hardware and install Windows and Linux in a dual boot. With KDE there are so many options available that if you fiddle around with it for hours you can make it look and behave just like a Mac.

[pol pot]

Is it really that important though? The Mactel laptops are just rebranded Asus laptops afterall. Why not buy a PC which uses cheaper hardware and install Windows and Linux in a dual boot. With KDE there are so many options available that if you fiddle around with it for hours you can make it look and behave just like a Mac.

You haven't heard of the "because we can" and the "because it's there" principles, have you?

[obi_wan]

Is it really that important though? The Mactel laptops are just rebranded Asus laptops afterall. Why not buy a PC which uses cheaper hardware and install Windows and Linux in a dual boot. With KDE there are so many options available that if you fiddle around with it for hours you can make it look and behave just like a Mac.

we could talk about it for a long time...
I'm using windows XP, linux and MacOS X...

For "non-geeks users", Mac os X is really easier to use than linux, whatever you can say. I never found any linux distribution which is really "easy" for someone who uses his computer 2 hours a week to do really simple tasks (most of the users in fact).
You buy a mac, plug it, run it, and that's all, it works... I think it's better for most people

And, from a "power-user" point of view, osX is also really a good system... :
- unix architecture (means you have a terminal and "real" tools)
- apache server, python etc are included and installed
- xcode
- really good color management
- active community
- a lotta GPL projects
- X11 environment
- spotlight
... and you don't need to install anything, everything's inside osx.

Man, I'm using computers 14 hours a day to create graphics & videos and sometimes to code... I'm using the 3 systems(XP, mandriva & kubuntu, osX tiger) , and mac os x is for sure the best one.

Whatever you think, just try a mac, it's really a great experience.


And not to be totally out of subject : it would be really great to easily run windows on a mac, in fact it's a "dream" for me :
- you can work with osX
- you can play with windows (there are no more games under linux than under macos i think...)