Windows XP Booting on Mac Contest Over

[AidenShaw]

Lol

Consumers, now you can natively run Windows on the best looking and best performing computers in the world.

"best looking" subjective, at best.

IMO, white plastic is so 20th century, and the big blank space under the screen of the iMac completely destroys its proportions... Ugly.

MBP - there's a line between "minimalist" and "boring". The MBP is way over the line on the boring side.

de gustibus non disputandum est

OTOH, "best performing" - when every single chip and component is identical to other commodity PC vendors?

 

[QuarterSwede]

Never going to happen. That would be Apple sending a big F U to it's OSX developers.

Especially since games tend to run better on OS X when they are written properly for it and don't have tons of Windows garbage still in the code from being ported.

The hard part is getting devs to write clean game code for OS X.

 

[Steve1496]

I'll be happy to test when i get home tonight

Thanks! So far we've got graphics loaded, but there is a problem. Setup gets stuck at Setup is copying files (0%) and it seems its killing devices during install too (for example the Caps Lock light won't work on the keyboard).

Can you try this and see if you have the same issue?

 

[beatle888]

"best looking" subjective, at best.

IMO, white plastic is so 20th century, and the big blank space under the screen of the iMac completely destroys its proportions... Ugly.

MBP - there's a line between "minimalist" and "boring". The MBP is way over the line on the boring side.

de gustibus non disputandum est

OTOH, "best performing" - when every single chip and component is identical to other commodity PC vendors?

cant figure you out Shaw. WHY do you come here? you really have a lot of time on your hands i guess.

 

[ModestPenguin]

"best looking" subjective, at best.

IMO, white plastic is so 20th century, and the big blank space under the screen of the iMac completely destroys its proportions... Ugly.

MBP - there's a line between "minimalist" and "boring". The MBP is way over the line on the boring side.

de gustibus non disputandum est

OTOH, "best performing" - when every single chip and component is identical to other commodity PC vendors?

Are you serious? so 20th century? I dont believe that anyone can say that and not laugh. Thats sooo 20th Century And stop being so bitter.

 

[aegisdesign]

Exactly, this is what no-one with this argument seems to understand. People buy macs to run OS X not Windows!

Most people buy computers because they've work to do, not just because of the OS.

On OSX there's gaps in the available software needed to do your job. These can now be filled by running Windows applications. How does this encourage developers to fill those gaps with native OSX applications now they are competing with established Windows applications, often from much larger companies?

As I said, I think this a a BAD THING for the Mac platform in general. It will only be a GOOD THING if it brings in a huge market share shift and Apple and Apple developers can produce some stunning Mac OSX software. I think they will, but it's going to be a risky few years.

Dual booting isn't the answer anyway for apps as switching back and forth is a pain in the arse. When VirtualPC/Q is native, then we've real competition. At the moment I'd guess only game developers have any major concerns as they'll see the market for MacOSX ports dry up with people running the Windows version months before their port is finished.

 

[mrplow]

any prize money for the first person to get a virus on MacXP? cause I tihnk I just won it if so... =\ reinstalling.... (i kept getting an error about this setup.exe trying to execute 16bit code and it couldnt do it (prolly missing from the efi layer) and then whenever i finally installed/run aim the machine just haulted dead....

 

[tdewey]

any prize money for the first person to get a virus on MacXP? cause I tihnk I just won it if so... =\ reinstalling.... (i kept getting an error about this setup.exe trying to execute 16bit code and it couldnt do it (prolly missing from the efi layer) and then whenever i finally installed/run aim the machine just haulted dead....

Nice post number - looks like your machine is possesd.

All-in-all, very cool. I'm planning on picking up a new Macbook for my wife because of this (assuming they get the video drivers to work).

 

[mrplow]

welp thanks tdewey, you officially creeped me out for th enight

 

[ThomasM]

11. After rebooting, do the following:
- Press F2 to disable CD booting (there's no feedback, but you can
press F2 many times, it doesn't hurt). Alternatively, eject the XP CD
as per step 8.
- Choose XP by using the down arrow
- Hit enter.

NOTE: This time the wait is not that long... just sit tight and wait
for about 30 secs.

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i cant get past this stage.
i have the cd in, i press the windows logo and it gets turned upside down. then nothing happens

 

[Marlon_JBT]

Did anyone else cringe while reading this?

Yip... I did.

 

[RichP]

any prize money for the first person to get a virus on MacXP? cause I tihnk I just won it if so... =\ reinstalling.... (i kept getting an error about this setup.exe trying to execute 16bit code and it couldnt do it (prolly missing from the efi layer) and then whenever i finally installed/run aim the machine just haulted dead....

Whahaa! We are idiotproofing this install! I cant get the damn partitions to work. I set them up correctly, and when windows went to install, it showed my "XP drive" as unpartitioned space.

 

[mrplow]

Whahaa! We are idiotproofing this install! I cant get the damn partitions to work. I set them up correctly, and when windows went to install, it showed my "XP drive" as unpartitioned space.

you still don't have it working right? ill help you..

soon asi help myself, the 'restore' option didnt show up when i tried to fix my partition? kinda pissin me off.. it hink i ahve to reinstall XP again.. and then install the internet drivers agian.. then dl the updates again.. might hold off on that one until i get it working for a couple days


and did i mention the PC i'm on right now, although has the potential to be very nice (athlon 64) is a royal piece of crap with how much my dad has done to it? there are alteast 4 antiviruses running, 3 firewalls, etc... but guess what- he doesn't like passwords, so of couse we don't worry about that security risk.

 

[arn]

For the time being I've created a subforum for this discussion, since this single thread isn't the best way to organize it all.

https://forums.macrumors.com/forums/86/

 

[runninmac]

Oh good job with the new sub-forum it was getting a little hectic with everyone problems in here. So how long is this going to be here for?

 

[Stridder44]

Did anyone else cringe while reading this?

Did I cringe? Do you remember the feeling you got when you watched the Twin Towers fall on 9/11? Ok, so that's a little extreme but you know what Im sayin.

 

[Stridder44]

They got windows xp to work on a Mac??



How about getting windows xp to work on a pc? That would be news.

 

[me_94501]

"best looking" subjective, at best.

IMO, white plastic is so 20th century, and the big blank space under the screen of the iMac completely destroys its proportions... Ugly.

MBP - there's a line between "minimalist" and "boring". The MBP is way over the line on the boring side.

What would you suggest as an alternative? blue LEDs? Cheap gray or black plastic? A return to the candy-colored days of yore?

 

[iMeowbot]

What would you suggest as an alternative? blue LEDs? Cheap gray or black plastic? A return to the candy-colored days of yore?

There is something kind of sterile about recent Apple hardware. With the exception of the AirPort Extreme that hasn't changed much in years, it seems that every Apple product is just a box.

The candy colors are a bit dated, but the graphite stuff in between those and the current bland industrial boxes found a nice middle ground between serious and something with a bit of personality.

 

[jmbear]

How is any Intel Mac 'superior in all aspects' to a [similar spec] PC? please explain. You do realise more or less the exact same components are used in each?

I am a fan boy, I will think Mac is better than Windows regardless if they use the same components. Steve Job's "Reality Distortion Field" caught me at graduation in Stanford, I am now his mindless slave.

 

[AidenShaw]

What would you suggest as an alternative? blue LEDs? Cheap gray or black plastic? A return to the candy-colored days of yore?

Look at other consumer electronics.... Do you see tacky white plastic 45" LCD TVs? With or without a huge blank white area below the screen?

The "candy-colored days of yore" were mainly from Apple and some accessory vendors.

Only Apple went so low on the style scale as the "dalmation" and "flower power" iMacs. I'm surprised that Ive didn't crawl into a burrow and off himself when those were released.

 

[fusionstudios]

Here's what I want...
A bootleg of windows that would proceed to load Half-Life 2 directly. That way, I could game on my mac without every having to watch in horror as the microsoft logo appears on my screen!

 

[jmbear]

"best looking" subjective, at best.

IMO, white plastic is so 20th century, and the big blank space under the screen of the iMac completely destroys its proportions... Ugly.

MBP - there's a line between "minimalist" and "boring". The MBP is way over the line on the boring side.

de gustibus non disputandum est

OTOH, "best performing" - when every single chip and component is identical to other commodity PC vendors?

Performance is not only about hardware, dumbass. Think OS X. And for the "best looking", I guess that is in the eye of the beholder, but the average Joe will think a Mac is "better looking" than mosts PCs.

 

[Demoman]

To all of you Mac regulars, who are actually pro-Apple:

Do you know how many Microsoft 'moles' are regular posters here? I am a newbie and read much more than I post (as newbies should). But, I cannot fail to notice that many of the 'regulars', and lower-class, are actually just out to bust Apple's chops. Seems obvious that Brand X does not want too much good stuff being written without slanderous/libelous rebuttal. With all of the high-powered intellect around here, I wondered what the history is.

 

[Wes Jordan]

I guess the important thing to remember is that some people just do like flash and ugly blinking lights. I realized a long time ago that a vast majority of people are not as design-conscious as me and some people really prefer tacky design to a nice clean look. I love Apple hardware and think it looks gorgeous, and I think any Windows user, no matter how much they hate Apple, would agree that the hardware is superior to any hardware running Windows.