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Bruce Garlock passed along this link to a video showing how to install Windows XP on an Intel Mac: http://features.uneasysilence.com/mactel

Other than as a technical challenge, I simply cannot imagine why you would want to do this? Dual boot? Yeah, the Intel Macs boot quickly, but still: do you really want to reboot to switch to a different OS? Of course not: we want to run Windows under virtualization as a guest OS.

By the way, I've heard all the naive comments: too slow, broken, yadda yadda. Yes, Virtual PC on PowerPC Macs WAS slow, but virtualization on these Intel Macs will NOT be slow. And for those clueless few who still can't understand the difference between API emulation and virtualization, well, it's time for you to clean the gunk out of your ears and listen up: API trapping is difficult, prone to be bggy, and is always, always lagging behind. Virtualization does not have those problems: if you can get the OS to boot in the virtual machine, it's going to run any application that it can run on real hardware.

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Thu Mar 23 02:07:47 2006:   bruceg2004


Like I said in the email with this link, I just want seamless Windows. No full booting of the whole OS, just a Window opening up with just the application. I just need it for those few Windows apps that do not have a Mac equivalent, or for the apps that are required to setup routers or other network equipment.

- Bruce



Thu Mar 23 02:34:51 2006:   anonymous


Virtualization will be nice too, but for a desktop, I just want seamless Windows. Being able to run multiple OS'es will be great for development. Being able to boot up Linux, and other *nixes, will come in handy.

- Bruce



Sun Mar 26 13:07:29 2006:   TonyLawrence


Mac Rumors says this is coming with Leopard: http://www.macrumors.com/pages/2006/03/20060324092148.shtml

Looks like Leopard will beat Vista to market, by the way.

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