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Originally Posted by lostduck

Well, may be his name is Narf, or Blanka. According to the BBC, hackers have successfully managed to get XP to boot on a Mac.

Already linked at the start of this thread.

I had sent him a message asking him how this was possible since (at the time of the posting) no one had yet won the Windows on Mac prize and here is his response:

Interesting...although i do not know enough about what he's saying to know if that'd actually work

It still begs the question of why he didn't claim the $13k prize though.

Check this out ...

MacBreak

Leo Laporte from TWiT and
Ben Durbin from the PixelCorps
demo a dual boot machine ...
:eek:

Cheers,
Brian

http://cgi.ebay.com/Apple-Macbook-Pr...QQcmdZViewItem

MacBook Pro with XP Pro.

I might would do this to make some profit if i wouldn't have to wait 3 weeks to get another MBP. I love this thing.

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Originally Posted by CAlvarez

While it seems unlikely, the guy does have a high feedback. Doesn't make much sense all around.

97.x% feedback is quite low actually in the eBay community, in fact many long time eBay users stay away from such sellers and recommend others do so too, it's recommended that if a eBay seller has feedback of 98% or lower that business is not conducted with them...however granted that this person only got one negative feedback which apparently as the person who left it admits, was wrongly given it seems he may be a reliable seller...this auction definetly is questionable though IMO

oh...and of course if you read the sellers replies to some eBayers questions, he states the those pictures were taken from the Internet which is definetly something that would at least for me raise some suspicion about the legitimacy of this auction...he claims he'll be posting his own real pictures of this in action "soon"...probably won't happen though...he also claims he hacked the macs ROM/BIOS in order to allow it to multiboot both Windows and MacOS X...this auction just keeps getting better and better....http://forums.macosxhints.com/images/icons/icon13.gif

oh and yellow, no need to blur out his office number, he posted that answer with the number publicly in his auction :P...now what would really be fun is if someone took him up on that offer, called him, asked him about this and recorded the conversation ;) :P

Yeah, I noticed that a little while ago while looking at the auction. What a dumbass. :rolleyes: :D

He's got new pics up. Looks like the original pics weren't his, which explains the WinXP Home disc.

I'm certain he has got WinXP on a Mac Mini. I don't neccesarily think he's got all the drivers to work on it, as he claims. Non-VGA Video and Audio are current issues with the Mac Mini (as of last night's reading of the onmac.net forums).

An aside: I think the Mom & Pop computer shops (if any still exist) will have a little fanfare with putting together dual-boot macs for the consumer who doesn't want to tinker.

Well, I'll be . . .

Very, very interesting! And you know the performance will only get better.

Now the cat-and-mouse game between the hackers and Apple begins in earnest.

http://www.ami.com/support/doc/CSM-spec.pdf

I have no clue what "CSM (compatibility support module)" is, but i found this by doing a google search. Think he copied it from there?

Maybe you could call him up, and talk about 'how it works'.

So it looks like my suspicion of overheating and non-existent fan drivers has been confirmed. From Engadget:

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Now that narf and blanka's solution for booting into XP on Intel Macs is out in the wild and people are using it to actually run XP on their Macs, some bugs are showing up. That's not surprising, and we fully expect to see fixes within the near future (though we don't expect Colin to start handing over cash for each bug fix). One rumored bug should, however, give you pause before you decide to use this as anything more than a proof-of-concept: according to a thread on MacRumors, the current XP install doesn't include a fan driver, which means your Mac's fan never goes on. That may not be a big issue if you're using an iMac for limited periods in a well-ventilated space, but if you're planning on running XP on a MacBookPro, you may find things getting mighty hot. We're not dissing narf and blanka here; they won the contest and deserve their $13,000. But you may want to be a little careful before trying out their solution at home.