bishopdante Posted January 11, 2006 Share Posted January 11, 2006 Because if you can then there is going to be serious trouble for the PC makers. Serious Trouble. "But on a mac you can run both OSX and Windows!". Talk about lethal marketing! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/6653-so-can-you-run-windows-on-an-imacmacbook/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
WaxTrax! Posted January 11, 2006 Share Posted January 11, 2006 Yeah but this really is the domain of power users. I don't think the average user would even know the difference between Windows and Mac OS X, they just want to check their e-mail and surf the web, they don't care how it gets done. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/6653-so-can-you-run-windows-on-an-imacmacbook/#findComment-41228 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hagar Posted January 11, 2006 Share Posted January 11, 2006 In a lot of business situations, users (particularly in creative departments) want macs, but are refused because they can't run the same (windows) software as the rest of the company. If dual boot is a viable option (And apple have only said they *won't prevent* it) then this argument falls away. It remains to be seen how feasible this is.. From what little I've heard, it seems the new macs use EFI rather than BIOS, which tends to hint that booting windows won't be easy. If it turns out that dual-booting is difficult/impossible, then apple have shot themselves in the foot, IMO. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/6653-so-can-you-run-windows-on-an-imacmacbook/#findComment-41241 Share on other sites More sharing options...
abcslayer Posted January 11, 2006 Share Posted January 11, 2006 Oh, man. At this time, only Windows XP(or server?!) for Itanium can boot from EFI system. But as I know Windows Vista also have some boot file come with EFI in their content so maybe Vista would be EFI compatible (on Intel x86 64, not Itanium) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/6653-so-can-you-run-windows-on-an-imacmacbook/#findComment-41245 Share on other sites More sharing options...
scousi Posted January 11, 2006 Share Posted January 11, 2006 I don't think that Dual-boot would make a dent ... but concurrent dual OS would be tremendous. Maybe Apple has more future surprises about this (ie Darwine, VmWARE type of solution). Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/6653-so-can-you-run-windows-on-an-imacmacbook/#findComment-41249 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rohde Posted January 11, 2006 Share Posted January 11, 2006 Oh, man. At this time, only Windows XP(or server?!) for Itanium can boot from EFI system.But as I know Windows Vista also have some boot file come with EFI in their content so maybe Vista would be EFI compatible (on Intel x86 64, not Itanium) Where do you get this? Source? I'm currios about this (aren't we all). Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/6653-so-can-you-run-windows-on-an-imacmacbook/#findComment-41251 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bishopdante Posted August 16, 2008 Author Share Posted August 16, 2008 In a lot of business situations, users (particularly in creative departments) want macs, but are refused because they can't run the same (windows) software as the rest of the company. If dual boot is a viable option (And apple have only said they *won't prevent* it) then this argument falls away. It remains to be seen how feasible this is.. From what little I've heard, it seems the new macs use EFI rather than BIOS, which tends to hint that booting windows won't be easy. If it turns out that dual-booting is difficult/impossible, then apple have shot themselves in the foot, IMO. Boot Camp + VM ware. There is no argument, on mac you get both platforms, all the apps running concurrently. On my legit mac this works better than any PC I've used. Lots of people VMware plenty of virtual Windoze on top of Windoze to get better stability these days. Everything runs fine, no fuss. So the answer, basically is yes. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/6653-so-can-you-run-windows-on-an-imacmacbook/#findComment-858277 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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