Windows XP Booting on Mac Contest Over

[milo]

Funny how to make the CD for installing XP on a mac, you have to have a PC...

If there's a way to do it in OS X, then we've got something. Would toast do it?

I would bet it would. I have yet to see a disk image that couldn't be burned on the mac.

Well-- I'm waiting to see somebody actually give me some REAL data on this thing.

What's the speed like?
What's the driver situation?
Graphics?
Sound?
Games?????????

Waiting? The real data is out. You just need to quit being lazy and read the damn thread.

 

[calculus]

OMG. Putting OSX and windows on the same disk would breed new viruses, with abnormal DNA that will destroy the whole world . Narf should'nt hav done it.

Natural selection is a wonderful thing

 

[Steve1496]

Well-- I'm waiting to see somebody actually give me some REAL data on this thing.

What's the speed like?
What's the driver situation?
Graphics?
Sound?
Games?????????

Reportedly,
Speed is overall very good.
Drivers are being discovered. We've got all networking working, and I believe chipset too.
Graphics is a problem. There aren't any good x1600M drivers for Windows, at least nobody has found any.
No sound yet through iMac speakers, but headphones work through optical out
Games, well read the graphics problem. Right now graphics are poor until we get good drivers.

 

[FocusAndEarnIt]

Reportedly,
Speed is overall very good.
Drivers are being discovered. We've got all networking working, and I believe chipset too.
Graphics is a problem. There aren't any good x1600M drivers for Windows, at least nobody has found any.
No sound yet through iMac speakers, but headphones work through optical out
Games, well read the graphics problem. Right now graphics are poor until we get good drivers.

Wow! Very interesting! Graphic drivers will be out soon, isn't this a brand new graphics chip? I don't know much about graphics cards, just a little bit, I'm not a gamer.

::EDIT:: ---2,000th POST! w00t

 

[calculus]

Reportedly,
Speed is overall very good.
Drivers are being discovered. We've got all networking working, and I believe chipset too.
Graphics is a problem. There aren't any good x1600M drivers for Windows, at least nobody has found any.
No sound yet through iMac speakers, but headphones work through optical out
Games, well read the graphics problem. Right now graphics are poor until we get good drivers.

Fantastic achievement!

 

[next]

griffin should start doing this stuff to fix apple's design error... ¡no reset button!

 

[whooleytoo]

Dude, yeah, I know that, but just like people won't use the term "niggardly" anymore (go look it up, it has nothing to do with race) for fear of being misunderstood, so too the term "final solution" has come to be associated with Naziism. Try using the term "white power" to describe the brilliance of the color white. Let me know what people think of that.

Funny that this argument popped up on a thread about 'how to make your Mac more PC!"

 

[DTphonehome]

griffin should start doing this stuff to fix apple's design error... ¡no reset button!

The PowerMatePower!

 

[DTphonehome]

Funny that this argument popped up on a thread about 'how to make your Mac more PC!"

I haven't read it, purely coincidental

 

[MacsRgr8]

You need a PC? That's highlarious! Well, that stops quite a number of people who were going to try this from being able to.

Knowing the way the Maxxuss-patched 10.4.x for Generic Intel DVD's were shared, I'm pretty sure the pre-patched XP SP2 for Mac Intel CD will be available very, very shortly online somewhere.....

This IS ofcourse illegal.

 

[Chupa Chupa]

Should've included sarcasm tags. Calling Dvoraks fevered ravings a 'theory' is giving them astronomically excessive credit. I mean, if you look at the "evidence" that he based his column on, he could easily extrapolate that blanka and narf were simply the victims of Apple's ingenious plan to cut development costs by outsourcing it to Mac geeks and hackers, full-blown Windows adoption being 'just around the corner now'.

Yeah, your comment with the sarcasm tag has a whole different context. I just read it like you were being straight. You are right though...Dvorak will probably feel empowered to write a column on how this means Apple is dooooomed. Actually, he could just dust off an old column and update it.

 

[suntzu]

Reportedly,
Speed is overall very good.
Drivers are being discovered. We've got all networking working, and I believe chipset too.
Graphics is a problem. There aren't any good x1600M drivers for Windows, at least nobody has found any.
No sound yet through iMac speakers, but headphones work through optical out
Games, well read the graphics problem. Right now graphics are poor until we get good drivers.

I thought the graphics did work just not on the Mac mini (because it's using Intel's graphics accelerator).

ATI has a unified driver like nVidia's. So it's not a matter of finding good drivers, it's a matter of find those beta drivers that are so abundant on the nVidia side.

 

[phil989]

Pretty kol..
but what about if a user is working on Mac Only based programs and want to tranfer stuff from Windows only files or something? Will people have the availability to run both OS' at the same time.. like have one account under windows and another under OSX ?
Maybe that could be taken into consideration?

whoa slow down guys! sure this is a neat idea, but so are flying cars. i think its pretty amazing that this has been achieved in such a small timeframe. i know little about this, but running windows WITHIN mac os x, or visa verse, sounds a whole lot more difficult.

Phil

 

[whooleytoo]

I haven't read it, purely coincidental

(Just to clarify - I was paraphrasing the title of this thread! )

 

[balamw]

Drivers are being discovered. We've got all networking working, and I believe chipset too.

Does that include wireless (AirPort) networking? If so, any reports if it is suffering the same fate as under OS X where it doesn't seem particularly robust?

B

 

[Steve1496]

I thought the graphics did work just not on the Mac mini (because it's using Intel's graphics accelerator).

ATI has a unified driver like nVidia's. So it's not a matter of finding good drivers, it's a matter of find those beta drivers that are so abundant on the nVidia side.

What do you mean? Blanka worked with a Mac Mini tester and fixed the Mac Mini, so mini works now. As for drivers for the Intel graphics, I don't think that'd be hard to find.

ATI Catlyst drivers do not work for the iMacs, and MBP.

 

[nylon]

Here's a Flickr set of XP up and running on a Macbook Pro. The pics show the bootloader as well as the components in Device manager that need drivers. I believe all the driver issues have been sorted out except the Video Card (X1600) and the Built in Camera. Enjoy!!

XP on a Macbook Pro

I'm so close to buying an intel Mac I can taste it. Must resist....for now.

 

[ThomasM]

i guess this will work using an eh "copied" version of windows xp sp2 ?

 

[Steve1496]

Does that include wireless (AirPort) networking? If so, any reports if it is suffering the same fate as under OS X where it doesn't seem particularly robust?

B

Yeah, someone found a Dell that had the same specs and tried that driver, and it works for wireless. The Marvell Yukon driver works for Ethernet too.

I'm not sure if there's stability issues (I never had this problem with my iMac), because all the sites with those reports/info are down due to overloads.

 

[dejo]

...I'm pretty sure the pre-patched XP SP2 for Mac Intel CD will be available very, very shortly online somewhere.....

This IS of course illegal.

Hmm. Since I think there were a number of forum members here who were hoping to be able to legally run Windows and Mac OS X side-by-side on their new Mac.

 

[simie]

Anyone read this
http://nak.journalspace.com/

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=30353

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060316-6393.html

 

[MacsRgr8]

Hmm. Since I think there were a number of forum members here who were hoping to be able to legally run Windows and Mac OS X side-by-side on their new Mac.

Oh.. they still can

But this wil help you out if you haven't got a "real" PC... but do own a legal copy of XP SP2

 

[john7jr]

In case anyone wanted to see the Dual-boot process...

My pics via Flickr
http://www.flickr.com/photos/86824404@N00/

Same pics via PhotoBucket:
http://photobucket.com/albums/j60/macbookboot/

-John

 

[dejo]

You probably have already heard, but the contest is over...

Yeah, um, that's the title of this thread.

The few short-comings their solution has will quickly be fixed by the large open source community!

I'm hoping that includes fixing the short-coming of requiring a PC to create the install CD. I'd like to see a way of getting that done via Mac, without breaking any laws.

 

[MacsRgr8]

Anyone read this
http://nak.journalspace.com/
... snip ...

Eh.. just woke up?