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Not that i'd wanna run Windows on a Mac.. but i guess it's good for the people that don't know any better.

OSX all the way baby! :)]]>Mar 15th 2006 11:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/15/xp-on-mactel-the-movie/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/15/xp-on-mactel-the-movie/Mar 15th 2006 11:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/15/xp-on-mactel-the-movie/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/15/xp-on-mactel-the-movie/There's no way he could use a video editor to do that in 1 day]]>Mar 15th 2006 11:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/15/xp-on-mactel-the-movie/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/15/xp-on-mactel-the-movie/Mar 15th 2006 11:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/15/xp-on-mactel-the-movie/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/15/xp-on-mactel-the-movie/Mar 15th 2006 11:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/15/xp-on-mactel-the-movie/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/15/xp-on-mactel-the-movie/Mar 15th 2006 11:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/15/xp-on-mactel-the-movie/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/15/xp-on-mactel-the-movie/Mar 15th 2006 11:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/15/xp-on-mactel-the-movie/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/15/xp-on-mactel-the-movie/" IT HAS BEGUN!!!! "

]]>Mar 15th 2006 11:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/15/xp-on-mactel-the-movie/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/15/xp-on-mactel-the-movie/
You know, seriously .... its a "just because" effort. To waste 1300-1600 after taxes depending on setup on a Mac just because you can install XP on it.. is a COMPLETE waste of time from the end user perspective. Spend 1/2 half the money to get a decent machine with a dual-core, and a Mac mini and a switch box.]]>Mar 15th 2006 11:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/15/xp-on-mactel-the-movie/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/15/xp-on-mactel-the-movie/
http://clips1.vimeo.com/video_files/2006/03/15/vimeo.74487.mov]]>Mar 15th 2006 11:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/15/xp-on-mactel-the-movie/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/15/xp-on-mactel-the-movie/Mar 15th 2006 11:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/15/xp-on-mactel-the-movie/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/15/xp-on-mactel-the-movie/Mar 15th 2006 11:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/15/xp-on-mactel-the-movie/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/15/xp-on-mactel-the-movie/
Just get the mac mini and save yourself the cheapo PC and the KVM switch.]]>Mar 15th 2006 11:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/15/xp-on-mactel-the-movie/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/15/xp-on-mactel-the-movie/
Show everything from start to finish!!!!!! until then it doesn't prove a thing.

]]>Mar 15th 2006 11:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/15/xp-on-mactel-the-movie/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/15/xp-on-mactel-the-movie/Mar 15th 2006 11:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/15/xp-on-mactel-the-movie/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/15/xp-on-mactel-the-movie/
http://www.visualmagician.com/vimeo.74487.mov]]>Mar 15th 2006 11:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/15/xp-on-mactel-the-movie/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/15/xp-on-mactel-the-movie/Doesn't the iMac usually have a white light in the front when restarting? (I didn't see that in the video)

I also wish he focused on the system specs because I couldn't read them at all.

I'm just throwing out a possibility if it was a fake.

Although I indeed hope it's real.]]>Mar 15th 2006 11:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/15/xp-on-mactel-the-movie/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/15/xp-on-mactel-the-movie/
two things tell me that it's real.

One, in order for him to have successfully installed windows onto his iMac, he would have to do extensive EFI hacking/workarounds, which is apparent in the boot sequence of windows, with the logo (any windows user would know that the traditional windows boot is the ugly black bar loadng with Starting Windows across the top, then the fade in logo and progress bar). Then again, he could have installed a program, such as bootskin XP, to skin the boot interface (i used to use it with a faux-OS X boot, looked real nice actually), or he himself rewrote the boot code in the MBR.

Two, There is no way that system was emulated. Anyone who has used an emulator or virtual PC on ANY operating system knows that graphics are not that fluid unless they are native (the virtual PC has to emulate a VESA driver, thus usually causing visual "tears" in the emulated environment.), The windows hardware interface management utility would have also read off a list of emulated, generic hardware names, e.g. the harddrive would have read Generic Virtual Drive or something of the nature.(The harddrive in the video read off "Maxtor 6L160M0")

Also, windows ACPI read off as seeing a multiprocessor PC, which is concurrent with the fact it is running an Intel Core Duo.

Everything about this seems real, I can't spot any discrepancies in the video, therefore, i'd say it's legitimate.]]>Mar 15th 2006 11:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/15/xp-on-mactel-the-movie/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/15/xp-on-mactel-the-movie/
Fishes,
narco. ]]>Mar 15th 2006 11:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/15/xp-on-mactel-the-movie/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/15/xp-on-mactel-the-movie/Mar 15th 2006 11:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/15/xp-on-mactel-the-movie/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/15/xp-on-mactel-the-movie/
you're gonna start a fanboy fight with that.]]>Mar 15th 2006 11:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/15/xp-on-mactel-the-movie/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/15/xp-on-mactel-the-movie/]]>Mar 15th 2006 11:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/15/xp-on-mactel-the-movie/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/15/xp-on-mactel-the-movie/
I doubt this is the case.]]>Mar 15th 2006 11:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/15/xp-on-mactel-the-movie/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/15/xp-on-mactel-the-movie/Mar 15th 2006 11:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/15/xp-on-mactel-the-movie/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/15/xp-on-mactel-the-movie/Mar 15th 2006 11:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/15/xp-on-mactel-the-movie/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/15/xp-on-mactel-the-movie/Mar 15th 2006 11:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/15/xp-on-mactel-the-movie/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/15/xp-on-mactel-the-movie/
I was a mac user back in college (got a brand new blue & white G3 freshman year), maybe even a fanboy... Then I got to the real world, where I have to be able to run real world software, none of which is available on the Mac (unless someone can point me to a good schematic capture & multilayer PCB layout pacakge for OS X?). I haven't owned a Mac since... I'd like to have one for all the sweet hardware they build, but without windows it's simply not practical. Put XP on a mac and I'm on board for sure.]]>Mar 15th 2006 11:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/15/xp-on-mactel-the-movie/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/15/xp-on-mactel-the-movie/Mar 15th 2006 11:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/15/xp-on-mactel-the-movie/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/15/xp-on-mactel-the-movie/Mar 15th 2006 11:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/15/xp-on-mactel-the-movie/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/15/xp-on-mactel-the-movie/Mar 15th 2006 12:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/15/xp-on-mactel-the-movie/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/15/xp-on-mactel-the-movie/
I can't wait to play CS and Roller Coaster Tycoon 2 on my Mac :)]]>Mar 15th 2006 12:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/15/xp-on-mactel-the-movie/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/15/xp-on-mactel-the-movie/
I am reserving judgment until I see video of this guy physically moving the mouse and having the movement onscreen correspond with it. That was not shown in this video.]]>Mar 15th 2006 12:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/15/xp-on-mactel-the-movie/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/15/xp-on-mactel-the-movie/Mar 15th 2006 12:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/15/xp-on-mactel-the-movie/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/15/xp-on-mactel-the-movie/
Noone is stupid enough to go out and buy a MAC JUST to run windows on it. The point is, that many of us LIKE MACOS, and want to run it legitimately, but still have a need to run applications in windows that don't run well under emulated environments (DirectX Apps, games, etc). The only way to do this is to get Windows running in dual boot on an intel Mac.

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That's not the case though. If Apple machines were capable of dual boot than it would remove incentive to developers to release OSX versions of their software. Why not just release an XP version that will run on everything now that macs can boot XP. This is last thing that apple wants.]]>Mar 15th 2006 12:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/15/xp-on-mactel-the-movie/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/15/xp-on-mactel-the-movie/
I have it on my winbox downstairs.
haha.

i have a friend in Apple corporate, he got me a copy of the intel dev build of OS X that runs on any intel processor with SSE3.

its nothing special, just a mac in an ugly box.]]>Mar 15th 2006 12:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/15/xp-on-mactel-the-movie/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/15/xp-on-mactel-the-movie/
Apple does NOT want OSX on PC, but does not mind Windows on MAc. Microsoft only benefits from windows running on Mac because theyll sell more licenses.]]>Mar 15th 2006 12:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/15/xp-on-mactel-the-movie/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/15/xp-on-mactel-the-movie/
1. It's a movie on fullscreen
2. The lcd was attached to a normal PC.

Not too hard to do even in a day
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#9 the whole point is that it runs both systems now (or ultimately the idea is that it will run both), not just to replace OS X with Windows

#1 Another reason to run Windows on a Mac is that Macs are quality pieces of hardware! Why not use this is an opportunity to benchmark these machines, e.g. if Photoshop in Windows on said iMac runs operation X in 53 s, operation Y 23 in and Photoshop in OS X on said iMac runs operation X in 52 s and op Y in 21 seconds, then maybe OS X is a faster OS.

Just some thoughts...
]]>Mar 15th 2006 12:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/15/xp-on-mactel-the-movie/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/15/xp-on-mactel-the-movie/It's not a video, and I can't say it's not an attached screen, but I highly doubt it.]]>Mar 15th 2006 12:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/15/xp-on-mactel-the-movie/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/15/xp-on-mactel-the-movie/Mar 15th 2006 12:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/15/xp-on-mactel-the-movie/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/15/xp-on-mactel-the-movie/If I was going to fake this...I'd have a PC hidden under the desk connected to the Mac monitor but, as I say, I'm the cynical type.
Good luck to him. It is always fun to solve a difficult problem.]]>Mar 15th 2006 12:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/15/xp-on-mactel-the-movie/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/15/xp-on-mactel-the-movie/Mar 15th 2006 12:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/15/xp-on-mactel-the-movie/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/15/xp-on-mactel-the-movie/
I guess it's convincing enough, but, to play devil's advocate, it's more than easy to code a fake system dialogue in some visual studio app to display hardware and such. Like others, I'm reserving judgement.]]>Mar 15th 2006 12:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/15/xp-on-mactel-the-movie/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/15/xp-on-mactel-the-movie/Mar 15th 2006 12:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/15/xp-on-mactel-the-movie/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/15/xp-on-mactel-the-movie/Mar 15th 2006 12:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/15/xp-on-mactel-the-movie/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/15/xp-on-mactel-the-movie/Mar 15th 2006 12:38PM