Intel Macs Can Now Boot Windows XP
Back in January, when the first Intel-based Macs were launched, the big question was: will these machines run Windows? At the time, the answer was no. As of today, however, the challenge to enable Intel Macs to boot Windows appears to be over. Two developers, narf2006″ and “blanka” have solved the technical issues involved in making this happen. Windows XP screenshots are on the OSx86 Project Forum.
Asam Bashir wrote:
Yah saw that he-he - but perfection will still be a Zen solution and someone on the list gave a way to find out if virtualization enabled on the Yonah chips, but still not had time to go check out on my mums 20″ Intel iMac.
Hey check this, http://www.infoverse.org/l2dsspace/ml2dss_movie.htm
What a totally cool user interface eh, really bring about a simbian relationship between humans and inteligent machines. If you look at the drop down menu buttons of the user interface it uses Mac OS X ! Copied, or something deeper?
6G real iPod video’s due 1st April.
Posted 17 Mar 2006 at 4:38 am ¶
Asam Bashir wrote:
Those buttons I mean, ones labelled rank, title, runtime - they are Mac OS X,
Posted 17 Mar 2006 at 4:42 am ¶
Asam Bashir wrote:
But yeah, seen rest of site and maybe just a big Mac OS X fan…….
Posted 17 Mar 2006 at 4:44 am ¶
simon wrote:
That software looks interesting. I wouldn’t be at all surprised to see some VC (or other) investment being put into it.
Posted 17 Mar 2006 at 9:59 am ¶
Asam Bashir wrote:
This is very interesting:
http://appleinsider.com/article.php?id=1617
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/03/22/mac_fastest_core_duo_laptop/
It confirms that not only does Apple make the best OS, it really does make the best hardware. Personally I have no intention of insulting any Intel Mac by booting it in XP, running through virtualization or emulation being another matter, however, this does now provide a hard bench mark for the third party developers like M$ and Adobe, who can no longer pass the buck back to Apple by blaming hardware performance difference instead of their own badly written sloppy code. If M$ can make Office run fast and smooth on Intel processors running XP then there is no more excuse they can use to not make the same, if not better, performance running in Mac OS X. This is a very important validation method Apple now has to prevent monopoly induced games played by third parties. The Mac industry has been very uncomfortable with Adobe after its Macromedia aquisition and overt flirtation with M$ and its expression of preferred platform. Adobe is just not the company it used to be, its grown too big and with that comes laziness in innovation.
Also of note today is the report that Apple has been in vigorous talks with cell phone component manufactures in Taiwan:
http://www.forbes.com/technology/feeds/afx/2006/03/21/afx2611825.html
http://www.smarthouse.com.au/iPods_And_Portable_Players/iPods?Article=/iPods%20And%20Portable%20Players/iPods/W5C2N2D7
From a review of the recent patents, its obvious that Apple has been researching touchpad and gesture technology, its aquistion of a tier 3 data centre, and todays news all point to some very interesting new toys coming. Whooo-hooooo! I don’t expect it to release the iPod phone by the 1st April special event as it would not have had the time to get the network infrastructure ready, which is a shame since I need a new phone and was waiting for the one chip p990i, but for sure we should get the 6G iPod Video with bluetooth.
No news on Video over wifi streaming so one wonders what’s holding up the Airport Extreme with AirVideo - maybe they’re saving it for a new form factor toy but more probably Jobs is fustrated by the slow emergence of standarisation from the N-wars being held up by the 40 Mhz in 5 Ghz band range dilemma (http://wifinetnews.com/archives/006382.html).
It would be very easy to add full PDA functionality to 6G iPod video since iPods have half PDA functionality already with syncing iApp data and with bluetooth it would be easy to link to a keyboard. Tough game plan here, Apple probably has a perfect combination of iPod/Phone/PDA but its being inhibited by the external factors needed to make this happen.
In terms of innovation, Apple’s been kept busy by the Intel transition but it is about time for one of those *BIG-WOW* new gadgets that Jobs is famous for pulling out of the bag. An Apple *BIG-WOW* gadget I define as something that’s not based on or an evolution of an exisiting product line. So that’s not including full PDA functionality to 6G iPod video since iPods have half PDA functionality already with syncing iApp data.
Considering all the above, using exisiting technology, and given the external inhibitory forces, it would be the right time for a large screen PDA professional gadget, an ultra portable keyboard-less laptop - something that’ll kill Oregami at birth in one blow, Thought less syncing and one step closer to a true wearable computer, smaller market then the iPod target, but the influential power users stuck to corporate phone contracts right now. The 32 GB Samsung NAND flash has gone into volume production
http://www.samsung.com/Products/Semiconductor/common/cdance_list/cdance_popup.asp?family_cd=NFL0206&partnumber=K9NBG08U5M
http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/10/samsung-shows-off-flash-laptop-drive-at-cebit/
At $900 I don’t see it going into laptops until price falls, but combined with a touch-screen it would be an nice expensive toy for the power information user - something Apple could shift in low numbers but still get the *Big-WOW* and halo effect, top of the range gadget at $1200 with very very low profit margin, but offered with cheaper 16 GB flash for a higher margin profit to the wanna be’s for $600-700. You keep your old battered contract phone hidden in your pocket, but you’ll actually use it from the *Big-Wow* gadget via bluetooth. Mind shift will occour in the trend setters, memes will be spread and the road is now ready for the Apple phone service and MobileMe to complete the plan.
Nice try by NEC http://121ware.com/votol/ - but you ask the question why no phone fuction, and UGLY interface, and exactly shows why you can’t do this with a traditional hard drive, 8 hour battery life……..
Oh, and don’t forget the mystery of the long awaited Apple Speech 2.0 and that funky fluid GUI by that Mac OS X developer:
“we apologize, that currently we can’t provide any deepinsights into the iworld project. there are some very interesting developments under way, that don’t allow us to present it to the public at the moment. ”
http://www.infoverse.org/iworld/index.html
Only Apple could put it all together right now and sell it and with that my forcasting now closed till special event, it won’t actually be 1st April since that’s on a weekend, so either before or after
http://happybirthdayapple.com/
Posted 23 Mar 2006 at 2:19 am ¶