When I first heard the announcement late last night that the Windows XP on intel Mac contest had been won, I wasn't too surprised. I had been expecting it, since there seemed to be a lot of evidence supporting that it should be possible. After reading the solution posted, I'm amazed by the elegance and simplicity of it -- the hack amounts to installing a boot loader, creatiing a couple of drivers and dlls for a Windows install CD and reburning the CD. It's not unlike what I used to do for dual booting Windows NT and 95.
I think that this new development is cool, and great for those who need to run applications on Windows now and then without needing a program such as VirtualPC, but I can't help feeling that there is a tremendous amount of space wasted on installing Windows on a Mac.
Now, I will admit that the way I use a computer is likely very different from most people. In my lifetime, I've owned more than a dozen different computers with a good half dozen or so being laptops. But since purchasing my Mac in 2002, I've found less and less of a need for having Windows around. (My PC functions solely for games).
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