one bad apple..

[Paul3eb]

http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbc ... /604060340

Johnson said he told the tech crew that "they better get ready because hell just froze over."

thought it was interesting.. i think wes might have a heart attack after the intel thing nearly sent him screaming

[Wes]

Actually, this is way cool. I can get a powerbook, use it for my personal machine, and if I happed to need a few of the windows only tools that I have to have for work, I can do it on the same machine. The real holy grail will be vmware for OS X though. Hardware speeds of XP in a window of OS X. No need for the two laptops I have now.

[Meadows]

I think my eyes crossed reading that.

[ReachHigh]

I left apple a long time ago. os X almost brought me back but I'm happy with linux and what ever hardware is infront of me.

[tomdarch]

Actually, this is way cool. I can get a powerbook, use it for my personal machine, and if I happed to need a few of the windows only tools that I have to have for work, I can do it on the same machine. The real holy grail will be vmware for OS X though. Hardware speeds of XP in a window of OS X. No need for the two laptops I have now.

Exactamente! Man, my poor old 667Mhz TiBook is looking older and older every day...

It will be bad enough when I have to plunk down about $140 for a copy of Windows. But it will cause a nauseating feeling in my stomach the first few times I hear the Windows startup sound come out of the speakers of my 'someday when I can afford it' next PowerBook, er, MacBook Pro.

[charlie]

Thankfully I don't have to install the Windows virus on my Mac's.

[SCIN]

I was going to go for a repeat performance of Part VI, in which I tried previously-featured searches myself and linked them to what I thought were their best non-thingsihate results, and I guess I still will. I only had two that came up with anything interesting this time, though.

[wirednut]

With emulation software you can run anything anywhere. But why would you need to? This is just more hype. There's not too many Windows "must-have" programs that don't have a compatible mac version anyway.


The only lasting effect of this is that next April those who took their 10% stock gains will have another line on their tax return.

Will

[wirednut]

From Wall Street Journal's Walt Mossberg:

've been testing Windows on a new iMac for several days and except for a couple of trifling annoyances, it runs perfectly, just like a stand-alone Windows PC. I was able to install Boot Camp and Windows XP Pro on the Mac in under an hour. After that, I installed 15 Windows programs, most unavailable in Mac versions, and all ran properly.

In Windows mode, the iMac was blazingly fast -- far faster than my two-year-old H-P Windows computer. And every function of Windows I tested, including Web browsing, email and music playback, ran flawlessly......Because the Mac becomes a true Windows computer when in Windows mode, it is susceptible to all of the viruses and spyware that plague regular Windows machines, but not Macs running the Mac operating system. While these viruses can't infect the Mac side of the machine, you do have to install antivirus and antispyware programs on the Windows side.

Well, ok. Maybe the Mac machines will be reliable with Windows, since others aren't. How long before the Mac side of the hard drive is hacked and susceptible to MS security holes?

[Wes]

I don't think that XP can read the OS X partition, so not much worry about getting cross-contimantion. I am psyched becuase there are a few xp only network utilities that I have to have for work, but I am tired of having two laptops. So, this way, I just have one that is a mac most of the time, but with a small XP partition, for when I need it.