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tlarkin 01-12-2006 04:11 PM

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Originally Posted by TrumpetPower!
There are ways around this. For one, grub (a Linux bootloader) both runs on EFI and can boot Windows. Also, EFI has provisions for mimicking a BIOS; whether or not Apple saw fit to include such has yet to be confirmed.

But I still say that dual-booting misses the point. Virtualization is where it's at, baby.

Cheers,

b&

Also, GRUB is OS independent, meaning it supports almost virtually every file system (with the exception the version I am running on my boot disk does not fully support HFS+, but it does support HFS).

Someone has already put x86 os x onto a PC laptop, so I don't see why the reverse can not be done, and put windows on a mac.

http://www.gotstrife.com/?p=32%E2%80%B3

Check out this link, there is actually a pic out there of a sony laptop running x86 mac os x I just couldn't find it.

hayne 01-12-2006 05:40 PM

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Originally Posted by TrumpetPower!
But I still say that dual-booting misses the point.

Unpublished backroom scene after the keynote:

TrumpetPower! 01-12-2006 11:51 PM

BWAHAHAHA!

It's a darned good thing I wasn't drinking anything, or else you'd owe me a replacement PowerBook, hayne!

Cheers,

b&

maclova 01-12-2006 11:53 PM

meh...he could wait a month after february or so and they'd probably get pretty cheap on ebay ;) :D

solipsism 01-14-2006 12:41 AM

It looks like Vista will run on PPC and Intel. I find that somewhat funny.

As for viruses, I believe that Apple's move to Intel is a paradigm shift for personal computing that will allow a much needed increase in 3rd party applications for Mac OSX. This incredible growth in consumer support will undoubtedly increase the number of hackers willing to see if they can exploit OSX.

maclova 01-14-2006 04:28 AM

Where'd you get the idea that Vista will also run on PPC? :confused:

solipsism 01-14-2006 04:59 AM

I looked for the article I read. I can't seem to locate it. Seriously, I did read it somewhere. I know that doesn't make a thing "actual factual", but like I said, i thought it was funny.

As for logic behind such a claim, the ONLY real value I can think of is that Windows is now using 3 IBM PPCs in every XBox 360. I can imagine, at the very least, a round table discussion, regarding having their "award winning" (chukle!) OS on there.

It's late, i'll try to locate it tomorrow...er today.

AHunter3 03-28-2006 05:10 PM

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Originally Posted by AHunter3
No Classic.

SheepShaver will probably be ported. Of course it will be slow on Intel Macs because it will have to emulate the PowerPC processor.


Done.

http://www.gibix.net/dokuwiki/en:projects:sheepshaver

Classic for the Mac-Intel crowd.


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