Recent attempts at installing Windows XP have left users scratching their heads. Hopefully a $6000 prize will inspire creative thinking.I haven't read the article yet, but it seems that this EFI thing is giving people fits. Is it that it's too new to be understood by many, or that it's architecturally barely possible to make this work with pre-Vista software? I fully believe someone will get it working, but it's an added wrinkle I don't recall anyone anticipating. Most likely people will limp along running XP on the Intel Macs in some sort of crippled way (which means that few people will have the tolerance to do it) until Vista is released and is immediately installable on Intel Macs. Then we'll see what the real impact of the Intel switch is.
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I hope somebody can do it. And do it well. I want to be able to play Madden with that shiny apple logo staring at me, not an "intel inside" sticker. But seriously, is gaming the only reason people are interested in doing this?
Macdoug, you are wrong, dead wrong. Dual boot is boring! Virtual machines, man. No one will want to dual boot when Windows can be run in a window on OS X (make that window full screen if it makes you feel better). In fact, I bet Apple is intentionally making it hard to dual boot for that very reason--they want Windows to run on their bardware, but they don't want you to completely leave the Mac experience to do it.
Speaking personally, I would *never* dual boot with Windows. The time investment to power down/up a machine is huge (not just boot time--think of all the context you have to recreate!). This Windows on Mac hardware business is nothing but a sideshow until the VM technology arrives.
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