Comments on: XP on Mac Contest Over, Solution Released

By: wallpaper xp

wallpaper xp — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 12:01:39 +0000

wallpaper xp…

Like wallpapers on blogs , it seems very good….

By: GanjaWeiner

GanjaWeiner — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 19:17:44 +0000

I have installed windows xp home on my mac, it was just like running windows on a pc. Allthough os is is much more stable. its nice that you can run both. Right now im getting ready to install debian linux on my mac dual boot

By: Dimos Stamatiou

Dimos Stamatiou — Sat, 18 Mar 2006 09:16:00 +0000

I was wondering: is it just me or the radeon cores used in intel macs are essentially the same used in pcs. If they are, then why one cannot use the desktop or notebook drivers for them.

By: Byte of the Apple

Byte of the Apple — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 12:20:27 +0000

XP on iMac…

It’s offical, at least according to OnMac.net: a way to get Windows XP running on an Intel-based Mac. It ain’t exactly elegant, which begs the question of whether Apple should change its philosophy and do something to help people such……

By: theory.isthereason » How to install Windows XP on an Intel Mac (WOOT!)

theory.isthereason » How to install Windows XP on an Intel Mac (WOOT!) — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 05:56:57 +0000

[...] Compared to the previous experience of installing the x86 version of Mac OS X on a Windows machine, the reverse of getting Windows XP on a Mac seems much simpler. However, as Paul Stamatiou mentioned, it’s not something for the faint hearted. You’ll have to deal with partitioning the Mac’s hard drive into two formats, then make a customized version of the WinXP SP2 disc, mess with more files and directories and then burn the CD is a specific way. There are other smaller issues to deal with, so you’re really on your own on this. Make sure to back up your Mac before trying this out! [...]

By: Paul Stamatiou

Paul Stamatiou — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 04:20:50 +0000

Agreed.

By: Hisham

Hisham — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 04:19:36 +0000

@Chris: Don’t rush out just yet. Reports are that video driver support isn’t there yet. I’d wait it out a little longer and see if someone can hack together a custom driver set.

By: Kathan

Kathan — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 01:17:52 +0000

Everytime a video like this comes out, for some reason the lighting is always terrible!

By: M.H.

M.H. — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 22:23:29 +0000

ArsTechnica’s article on this says the two partitions are supposed to be HFS+ and NTFS. I’m curious about whether the non-HFS+ partition is supposed to be FAT or NTFS.

By: Philip Suffren

Philip Suffren — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 22:01:53 +0000

i don’t think its just that easy to install, seems like you need lotsa skills

By: Brian Pinard

Brian Pinard — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 21:26:25 +0000

This is BIG news!

It will be interesting to see what Apple’s reaction to this will be hardware-wise, to see if they try to take any additional steps to prevent their hardware from supporting Windows.

Kathan, the video does look a little seedy, but there HAD to have been people that replicated that result in order to have declared a winner.

Here’s another mirror to the bootloader (hosted from my site) http://www.brianpinard.com/mactel/Winxponmac_0.1.zip

By: Kathan

Kathan — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 20:18:41 +0000

Something doesn’t look right about that video, maybe it’s the terrible lighting, or perhaps I just refuse to believe it.

By: Chris Morrell

Chris Morrell — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 19:38:51 +0000

Wow this might convince me to get a Mac Mini and slap XP on it. Now my inner tweaker is screaming for some for of BIOS tweaking, then again not sure if that is possible. Just another reason that the Mac Mini is the best buy from Apple.