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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?

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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 :whistle: 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.

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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.

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