[VISTA] Fw: Intel-based Macs will Run Windows Vista
- From: "Jim Kenzig http://ThinHelp.com" <jkenzig@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: vista@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 14:07:14 -0800 (PST)
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.
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