OT: Mac OSX

Joshua Zeidner jjzeidner at gmail.com
Sat Mar 25 18:46:50 MST 2006


why on earth would you want to run windows on a mac?  thats like putting
ketchup on filet mignon.  jmz


On 3/25/06, Kevin Brown <kevin_brown at qwest.net> wrote:
>
> >> I know everyone is currently obsessing with getting Windows to run
> >> on a new mac, but has anyone made the new Mac OSX (10.4  I think)
> >> run on a standard intel pc?
> >>
> >> I wouldn't buy a mac to run windows, though I would consider buying
> >>  OSX to run on my intel laptop...
>
> > I do not think that would work as the Mac boots without a BIOS. Also
> > many driver issues are a problem
>
> And yet WinXP doesn't boot off of EFI and yet you can boot it on the
> MacBook Pro systems.  That is a minor roadblock, not a show stopper.
> The bootloader could just fake the output from EFI on BIOS systems to
> get OSX running on any x86 system.
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