[VISTA] Fw: Intel-based Macs will Run Windows Vista

What an odd change of tune from Apple!
JK

 

==== In the News ====

Intel-based Macs will Run Windows Vista
   by Paul Thurrott, thurrott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

At the Macworld Expo this week in San Francisco, Apple executives 
confirmed that Windows Vista will run on the new Intel-based iMac 
desktop and MacBook Pro computers that the company is rolling out this 
year. However, Apple won't promote or support Windows on the new Macs, 
and users who want to dual-boot between Mac OS X and Windows on those 
machines still face some technical hurdles.

"We don't mind [if people want to install Windows on Macs]," Apple 
Senior Vice President Phil Schiller said this week. "If there are 
people who love our hardware but are forced to put up with a Windows 
world, then that's OK." On the flipside, Apple won't allow customers to 
install Intel-based versions of Mac OS X on standard PCs. Apple will 
begin selling its first retail version of an Intel-based Mac OS X 
version, code-named Leopard, in 2007.

One technical problem will require some thinking, at least for Windows 
XP users. The new Macs use a new type of BIOS named Extensible Firmware 
Interface (EFI), which Intel developed. This interface is currently 
incompatible with the 32-bit version of XP. However, it's likely that 
an enterprising hacker will create an OS boot loader of some kind that 
lets customers install XP and then dual boot it with Mac OS X. 

Unlike XP, Vista, Microsoft's next-generation OS, natively supports 
EFI, so it should be relatively easy to wipe out Mac OS X and install 
Vista on the new Macs. And because the Intel-based Macs are based on 
standard Intel and ATI hardware, Vista will likely prove to be 
compatible with the system's hardware. 

The possibilities opened up by dual booting Vista and Mac OS X on the 
same hardware are compelling for a number of reasons. To test this 
scenario, I've ordered a 20-inch iMac from Apple. I'll publish the 
results of my tests on the SuperSite for Windows in the weeks ahead.
   http://list.windowsitpro.com/t?ctl=1DDAF:27DDB 

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