Apple's Boot Camp beta

[Duo Maxwell]

http://www.apple.com/macosx/bootcamp/

Apple's own soltion to running XP on your intellimac. wonder how long till MoL is ported to the intelimac, so that we can see just how many OSs can be run at the same time.

[Dark_Me]

Is this a april fools prank?

Macs use an ultra-modern industry standard technology called EFI to handle booting. Sadly, Windows XP, and even the upcoming Vista, are stuck in the 1980s with old-fashioned BIOS. But with Boot Camp, the Mac can operate smoothly in both centuries.

Windows running on a Mac is like Windows running on a PC. That means it

[Refalm]

The obvious question: can it run x86(-64) Linux too?

[WMD]

That wouldn't be a prank.  Apple has been known to pick on Microsoft with things like this.

[Jack2000]

the :

So be sure to keep it updated with the latest Microsoft Windows security fixes.

bit realt makes you think it is a joke

[davidnix71]

Intel Macs dual booting X and XP. Must be a sign of the Apocalypse. Better watch out for flying pigs.

[H_TeXMeX_H]

Intel Macs dual booting X and XP. Must be a sign of the Apocalypse. Better watch out for flying pigs.

Hahahaha ... agreed :thumbup:

[Xeniczone]

I wonder if this can be reverse engineered to run on windows so you can choose to boot mac on a everyday x86 pc.

What this may do is boost sales on the mac hardware. In return making macs cheaper.

[cymon]

No, it can't be reverse engineered. Macs don't use the standard PC BIOS, so it wouldn't even boot it the first place. Not to mention that you'd have very little hardware support, so unless you had the exact same hardware as any of the Macs, you'd be in the same situation as the Linux ATi users.

[sjor]

Unless they start making PCs with Open Firmware.

[Aloone_Jonez]

And that won't happen.

[piratePenguin]

No, it can't be reverse engineered. Macs don't use the standard PC BIOS, so it wouldn't even boot it the first place. Not to mention that you'd have very little hardware support, so unless you had the exact same hardware as any of the Macs, you'd be in the same situation as the Linux ATi users.

I've heard about an effort to build drivers for more (not-sold-by-Apple) hardware for Mac OS X.

If they managed to make Linux drivers work, that would kick arse.

[WMD]

Unless they start making PCs with Open Firmware.

Intel Macs use EFI, not Open Firmware.

[Paladin9]

This is NOT a fake.  There was an article on in on the BBC news website.

[mobrien_12]

The obvious question: can it run x86(-64) Linux too?

They've always been able to run Linux.  

The macbooks are, from what I have read on the web, using the Yonah dual core chip.  This is a pretty neat chip, but is 32 bit instruction set only.  I've read on diggthat it's actually a 64 bit chip but just doesn't have the 64 bit instruction set enabled.  Fully enabled 64-bit dual core notebook intel chips (Merom) are supposedly to be out this year( http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=2721).

I honestly don't know if the desktop versions are using the x86-64 versions of Intel core chips.