Re: Windows on a Mac!?
Re: Windows on a Mac!?
- Subject: Re: Windows on a Mac!?
- From: Matthew Kelly <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 16:02:04 -0600
From what I have read, the Intel chip used on the new Macs uses a
new set of bios. The bios that will be used on Vista, the new
Windows OS, may be these new bios, which may make dual booting
available on the Macs.
(Please note that this is how I interpreted what I read, and as I
have gotten older, I find that my cognitive reading has become
somewhat creative)
Matthew Kelly
Technical Supervisor
Litho Press, Inc.
4334 Milling Road
San Antonio, TX 78219
210-541-0707
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On Jan 25, 2006, at 6:36 PM, Marco Ugolini wrote:
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.
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Marco Ugolini
Mill Valley, CA
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