crees! said:McFly! Read "Latest Update"
Link please.
Edit. Scratch that. My version of the onmac.net page just got updated. Must've been cached or something.
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Windows XP BOOTS on an iMac!! Video!
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Link please.
Edit. Scratch that. My version of the onmac.net page just got updated. Must've been cached or something.
crees! said:You have to be kidding me. This has been asked MULTIPLE TIMES. But.. I'll humor you. I'll give you 2 quick examples. People love using a Mac but some dip into the darkside so they can play.. oh lets say.. Half-Life 2 or Counter-Strike.. Others like me create web sites for a living where you MUST test on multiple versions of IE. Okay.. nuff said
Yep both the reasons I'd like to be able to dual boot.
I recenty created a website for a client and when checking on safari it was grand, on firefox - grand, on mac internet exploer 5.2 - grand........ so I thoght yeah feck it I'll stick it online.
Only when checking on a pc the next day did I see it was screwed up on IE (but not firefox) that I was glad I hadn't told the client to look at it yet...
Oh and I want to play rollercoaster tycoon (mac version on intel mac sucks and isn't announced for a uni binary)....
crees! said:You have to be kidding me. This has been asked MULTIPLE TIMES. But.. I'll humor you. I'll give you 2 quick examples. People love using a Mac but some dip into the darkside so they can play.. oh lets say.. Half-Life 2 or Counter-Strike.. Others like me create web sites for a living where you MUST test on multiple versions of IE. Okay.. nuff said
No, I'm not kidding you, and thank you for taking the time out of your obviously busy schedule to explain that to me. You can now return to your self-important life of video games and talking down to other new users
<--------smilie implies I was joking
Actually I haven't played video games since I switch to Mac's just over 2 years ago. But I'm looking forward to playing Counter-Strike againrjgonzales said:No, I'm not kidding you, and thank you for taking the time out of your obviously busy schedule to explain that to me. You can now return to your self-important life of video games and talking down to other new users
I think it is a good thing they got it running. As an earlier posted pointed out, this will help people who need to run windows get things done easier. Besides, Windows XP really is not that bad. I have used OSX and XP Pro SP2 both and, as long as you keep it updated, XP is not the devil that it is sometimes made out to be. And no I'm not trying to be a troll ;-)
lu0s3r322 said:
They would be on separate partitions most likely, but I guess they could spread...it's not likely that the virus made for windows would run or do any damage on the mac site, since Windows viruses right now, don't. Maybe a combo-virus will be invented if this gets big.
Chrispy said:
the devil? perhaps not, but as someone who uses osx and xp pro (and linux too for that matter) side by side, i absolutely cannot stand windows. sure, since all i use windows for these days is games, it is pretty well isolated from the outside world, thus it is trapped in what is, as far as windows is concerned, a very uncharacteristic state of always-workingness; i still find it unbearable. the windows interface is nothing more then a clumsy antique incabable of doing even the simplest of things any other os can do (e.g: updating a shortcut/alias when the linked file is moved).
MacDrive will probably be popular with people who dual boot, so for at least some people their data would be up for grabs.lu0s3r322 said:
On the other hand, all this stuff (MacDrive, and dusl boot in general) is going to appeal mostly to experienced computer users. I wouldn't expect malware to be a serious issue for most.