Mactel dual boot contest jackpot tops $10,000

You've probably heard about the guy offering a cash prize to the geek who comes up with a way to dual boot Windows XP and Mac OS X on a Mactel. Less than two weeks after Colin Nederkoorn started the contest and invited others to chip in to sweeten the pot, the unclaimed booty has passed the $10,000 mark. It's at $10,007 to be exact, most of which seems to have come from small, individual donations. It looks like half of the total is from people contributing $50 or less, including lots of smaller donations of $10-$20.

Such is the power of the people, or the power of the blog, or the power of people who blog. Whatever you want to call it, it's an impressive number of people willing to fund this effort. If nobody comes up with a solution before March 23, Nederkoorn will donate the jackpot to the Electronic Frontier Foundation.