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OT – Windows Vista delayed
Microsoft announced that Windows Vista will be delayed until 2007 instead of being released in this summer. Vista is the version of Windows that will be able to run on an Intel based Mac.
Full story on MSNBC.com
https://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11947922/
So for those of you looking to create a dual boot machine, I guess the wait will be a little longer. Unless you want to hack XP to run on an iMac like some folks did recently.
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Just a note on the “run it on a Mac thing.”
The reason that XP had to be “hacked,” as you said, is because it uses BIOS to start up while Intel Macs use EFI. Everyone was waiting for Vista to come out with EFI support which should make things a whole lot easier. Well…we recently learned that Vista will still have BIOS, not EFI! Oh well…
It looks like there might be some more expensive versions of Windows (like a server version) that will use EFI, but right now it seems that good old normal Vista will have to be hacked in the same way that XP was in order to run on a Mac.
Anyway, it’s not like I want to run Windows on my Mac, I just thought I’d add a little more info to your post…don’t count on Vista being any easier than XP was to run on a Mac.
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