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Apple's Boot Camp beta
« on: 5 April 2006, 16:20 »
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.
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Re: Apple's Boot Camp beta
« Reply #1 on: 5 April 2006, 16:55 »
Is this a april fools prank?
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Re: Apple's Boot Camp beta
« Reply #2 on: 5 April 2006, 17:13 »
The obvious question: can it run x86(-64) Linux too?
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Re: Apple's Boot Camp beta
« Reply #3 on: 5 April 2006, 19:28 »
That wouldn't be a prank.  Apple has been known to pick on Microsoft with things like this.
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Re: Apple's Boot Camp beta
« Reply #4 on: 5 April 2006, 20:41 »
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bit realt makes you think it is a joke :)
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Re: Apple's Boot Camp beta
« Reply #5 on: 7 April 2006, 04:54 »
Intel Macs dual booting X and XP. Must be a sign of the Apocalypse. Better watch out for flying pigs.
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Re: Apple's Boot Camp beta
« Reply #6 on: 7 April 2006, 05:12 »
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Intel Macs dual booting X and XP. Must be a sign of the Apocalypse. Better watch out for flying pigs.

Hahahaha ... agreed :thumbup: :D
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Re: Apple's Boot Camp beta
« Reply #7 on: 8 April 2006, 03:04 »
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.
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Re: Apple's Boot Camp beta
« Reply #8 on: 8 April 2006, 03:44 »
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.
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Re: Apple's Boot Camp beta
« Reply #9 on: 8 April 2006, 11:47 »
Unless they start making PCs with Open Firmware.
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Re: Apple's Boot Camp beta
« Reply #10 on: 8 April 2006, 11:52 »
And that won't happen.
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Re: Apple's Boot Camp beta
« Reply #11 on: 8 April 2006, 16:58 »
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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.
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Re: Apple's Boot Camp beta
« Reply #12 on: 8 April 2006, 18:08 »
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Unless they start making PCs with Open Firmware.

Intel Macs use EFI, not Open Firmware.
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Re: Apple's Boot Camp beta
« Reply #13 on: 10 April 2006, 06:33 »
This is NOT a fake.  There was an article on in on the BBC news website.
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Re: Apple's Boot Camp beta
« Reply #14 on: 10 April 2006, 07:03 »
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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.
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