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wierdo |
Still need to make 3D acceleration work, but interesting development otherwise. Can't run many games/software that need that on it yet.
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snowdog |
I am now ready to buy my first Apple product. I should change my poll answer. The combination of dual boot being solved and Conroe being very credible now has me waiting for a Conroe based, dual booting Mac. Yay!
Apple would never want to support this or even make it easy. But this is a boon. Many people such as myself who wouldn't switch previously will now consider it. I predict the cool machine next year will be dual booting Mac with Conroe. Reminds of the old days when hackers liked the Amigas with x86 module that could run Dos/Amiga/Mac software all at full speed. Why this won't negatively affect SW developers view of mac sales: The average Mac user is never going to set up a dual boot (especially given no support, difficulties involved) so this really won't impact software developer plans (ie they won't stop making Mac software). Even those who dual boot will probably prefer to have native Mac versions of software. In the end all Macs sold will be potential buyers of Mac software. That is why this is a perfect solution, no official support and difficulties make it something only those who MUST have it will do, so it will not have any significant percentage of people using a Mac, but buying Windows software for it. Why this is better than booting OSX on a whitebox: Booting windows on a Mac, is a legal solution. Apple has said they are not doing anything to stop it. So you can have legal OSX and legal WinXP on the mac and keep them both updated with ease. Also the Mac which has less HW support will be running on it's intended platform. Windows should have no problem running on the same hardware. Contrast running pirate/hacked OSX on the whitebox (the only way to do it) which will always be of questionable stability and a fight to upgrade without breaking it. |
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carburngood |
I'll be first to call shenanigans - notice the convenient artifacting when he goes to the Properties section of my computer...
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Convert |
They declared him the winner: http://onmac.net/
They still don't have it working on the 20" iMacs and it appears there are a few bugs here and there. Wonder why the consider it over, hopefully they will iron everything out. |
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cRock |
I'm inclined to believe it's true. Companies are fond of telling us what's impossible, but, usually, it all comes unraveled (see DVD encryption).
I'm interested to see if it's some kind of bios hack or HAL hack. I guess it could even be some clever use of a microkernel OS that intercepts bios calls and runs XP in a thin virutal envrironment. There are a lot of different ways to attack the problem. |
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Sargent Duck |
I think the camera guy has some sort of muscle spasm problem. I wonder how hard it is to hold a camera steady?
It didn't look all that exciting. Most of the video is of Windows XP setting up on a Mac Monitor. He showed a clip of a Mac Mini on the table, but I don't know if it was actually hooked up. He could have had a PC underneath the table. (I didn't actually watch the whole thing, but that's just what it looked like from what I saw) |
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Convert |
Thanks to derfunk's link I came across this from Colin (the head honcho): "The solution is confirmed working on the 17in iMac and the MacBook Pro. It needs to be tweaked for the Mac Mini, and the 20in iMac. Once these tweaks are done then it will be released."
http://forum.onmac.net/showthread.php?t=72 |