Re: Windows on a Mac!?
Re: Windows on a Mac!?
- Subject: Re: Windows on a Mac!?
- From: Steve Kale <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 09:09:21 +0000
- Thread-topic: Windows on a Mac!?
This is reasonably well-known. Mac has publicly stated they will NOT
prevent people from loading Windoze on an Intel Mac. Why one would want to
put a Fiat Punto engine in a Ferrari chasis is beyond me though....
> From: Marco Ugolini <email@hidden>
> Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 16:36:23 -0800
> To: ColorSync Users Mailing List <email@hidden>
> Subject: Windows on a Mac!?
>
> Dear friends,
>
> Did you read this bit of news in the NY Times? David Pogue is writing here
> about the new Intel-based Macs:
>
> "The best news, though, is yet to come. It comes in two parts: first, the
> increasing speed as more and more programs are Universalized.
> Second, in principle, with the assistance of a driver kit that someone will
> surely write, Intel-based Macs can be restarted in Microsoft Windows.
> Everybody wins: Microsoft can sell more copies of Windows, Apple makes the
> only computers on earth that can run both consumer operating systems at full
> speed, and the masses don't have to sacrifice the huge library of
> Windows-only software."
> (David Pogue, "Intel Inside. Huh?!", NY Times, Jan. 25, 2006;
> <http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/25/technology/techspecial2/25pogue.html?page
> wanted=2&_r=1>)
>
> Before I read it in this article, I had never heard of Macs optionally
> rebooting straight into *Windows*, without the help of any simulation
> software. (That will also mean that the Mac will gain the dubious honor of
> having to worry about viruses and worms: great!)
>
> We're not there yet (specialized software still has to be written before
> that becomes possible), but it may be a blessing in disguise...or perhaps
> just another subtle way for the "madman of Redmond" to take over Apple!
>
> We'll see.
>
> Regards.
>
> P.S.: Besides this piece of "good" news, the bad news is that the Classic
> environment will be *gone for good* with Intel Macs. Rosetta won't do
> Classic. That will certainly come as a shock to those of us who still
> operate older drum scanners that function using software that only runs
> under Classic.
>
> --------------
> Marco Ugolini
> Mill Valley, CA
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