New macs can run windows XP!!

[ryguy]

Well this is great news. I'm a mac guy that occasionally gets the short end because mac doesn't offer a version of the program I'm intrested in running.

Well those days will be gone...... well...once I can convince my wife to buy the new intel based mac. Apparently, with the "Bootcamp" program, you can load XP on the mac and it runs flawlessly. That means I can finally buy the RC plane/heli simulator I've been wanting!!

Anyone else think this is as sweet as I do?

I have the new Intel Imac and a macbook pro...I love them, buuuut i dont have any programs that i would want to run on XP. But thats good to know though just incase..thanks for the info ryguy!

One word of advice upgrade the ram if you decide to get the intel based mac because if you plan to run a program that isnt Univeral (ie..photoshop or RC plane/Heli simulator) it will slow your computer considerably. Trust ME.... HTH

im a mac dork too...

[PsiPro]

There was actually a contest to get win XP to run on the current mac. Sombody actually won it, it was one of those tings most people said wouldn't happen.

It took some hacking into the CPU and beyond!

The way you are talking about is much better, but i'm not a mac fan

[QTOFFER]

Originally Posted by ryguy

I'm a mac guy that occasionally gets the short end because mac doesn't offer a version of the program I'm intrested in running.

I heard about this, and was wondering why anybody would want to run XP on their shiny new Mac!

I've used Mac OS10, and it never once crashed on me, unlike XP. (Though I must say that XP is a vast improvement over Microdeath's other buggy, half-written offerings.) The big problem with Mac OS is the skimpy selection of software written for it. Hopefully this new development will solve that problem.

I hope Mac has figured a way around the annoying message that still plagues us XP users:
"Such and such has encountered a problem and needs to shut down. Do you wish to send a report to Microsoft?"

[shawmutt]

I'm not sure I understand--someone will willingly spend hundreds more on a mac that will run xp, just so they can say they have a mac?

Now it's just a prettier version of a pc, and even "prettier" is debatable.

[fishfreek]

I have yet to figure out why one would need a mac over a wintel, windows/amd or linux based system. We have asked time and time again for the professors at our college to tell us why they need a mac lab over a IBM compat lab and not once have they been able to so us an application that has no IBM equivlent.

i guess ryguy and i are all alone on this one..lol

[QTOFFER]

As someone who has used both platforms, I'll just say that the Mac OS was way more stable than Windows XX. IMO, Safari blew away every windows-compatible web browser...including Firefox.

The reason I stayed with PC had to do with cost and software availability.

[aquablue]

Safari is far behind on web-standards compliance. It's almost as big a problem to get stuff looking right in safari as it is for IE

[shawmutt]

As someone who has used both platforms, I'll just say that the Mac OS was way more stable than Windows XX

I'm not trying to be difficult (or maybe I am), but I take issue when someone starts talking about a stability issue in an OS. I have used every operating system, GUI based or otherwise, since DOS and the original apple GUI. I have never had a problem with "stability" in any modern OS since Windows 98. Perhaps I'm not running the right programs to have stability issues, but I often have three computers running XP in my home office, all networked, all running multiple programs, and don't have any issues based on the OS. Certain distros of Linux have stability issues when I use them in a desktop environment.

However, I have had plenty of stability issues that were hardware based.