you Posted March 6, 2006 Share Posted March 6, 2006 Looked at newegg.com today and noticed they had Yonahs for sale, and I assume that Conroes will be used in the Power Macs (or whatever the hell they're going to call them). I guess my question is, won't it be a lot easier to boot OSX once people start using these processors? Has anyone bought a Yonah and had a much easier time installing? I'm pretty much a newb at haXXxoxoorring, and I don't really care to get into all that, so will it be easier, say, 6 months from now to dual boot XP/Vista and OSX? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Metrogirl Posted March 6, 2006 Share Posted March 6, 2006 Lol - I'd say that you can't count on it being easier because this is such a dynamic business. It's really easy to build a 10.4.1 system now because all the work was done a long time ago, so on that basis it will be equally easy to build 10.4.5 in a month or two. The problem is that no-one wants to build 10.4.1 because we've all moved on, so the same thing will apply. When 10.4.5 is easy, we'll all be trying to get 10.5 or whatever working But the dual boot on either native Intel or Intel-Mac will probably be all ironed out with time, so that bit at least will be helpful. I don't think the processor has been much of an issue throughout this providing it's supported at least SSE2. The new Intel Macs are using currently available Ts and I don't expect they'll pull that line in a hurry, so the software has to support them for a goodly while yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swad Posted March 7, 2006 Share Posted March 7, 2006 If you're talking about dual booting on a Mac, it should be easy by then - I'm sure someone will have it figured out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeathChill Posted March 7, 2006 Share Posted March 7, 2006 Lol - I'd say that you can't count on it being easier because this is such a dynamic business. It's really easy to build a 10.4.1 system now because all the work was done a long time ago, so on that basis it will be equally easy to build 10.4.5 in a month or two. The problem is that no-one wants to build 10.4.1 because we've all moved on, so the same thing will apply. When 10.4.5 is easy, we'll all be trying to get 10.5 or whatever working But the dual boot on either native Intel or Intel-Mac will probably be all ironed out with time, so that bit at least will be helpful. I don't think the processor has been much of an issue throughout this providing it's supported at least SSE2. The new Intel Macs are using currently available Ts and I don't expect they'll pull that line in a hurry, so the software has to support them for a goodly while yet. Yes, but newer OS X versions will support the older hardware from the Intel Mac's so that means if we build a system with a Core Duo and compatible parts it'll always be compatible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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