A guy by the alias of Narf2006 has claimed that he has managed to boot a copy of Windows XP on his iMac. In fact, he has made this video as his “proof”. The hack was done in an effort to win the $13,000 cash reward for successfully booting a copy of Windows XP on an Intel-powered Mac.
Real or fake? What’s your call?
March 16th, 2006 at 12:51 pm
cant tell by video , could be just a fake vid.
March 16th, 2006 at 4:19 pm
He has received the money and the solution has been verified. So this is real!
March 16th, 2006 at 7:04 pm
What we have here is an examply of installing windows on a mac but its actually a pc in a mac shell.
As far as i have known, the contest is still open and no one has successfully booted windows on mac hardware.
March 16th, 2006 at 8:19 pm
XP on a Mac. Pretty much the most useless thing I’ve ever seen, but not as useless as Apple itself.
March 16th, 2006 at 10:18 pm
What it says on winxponmac.com - “Contest has been won - updates to follow shortly. All further donations will go into an account to sustain the open source project that will be launched with the initial solution.
Thanks to Journalspace for hosting this contest in our hour of need!”
So yes the contest has been won, and several testers have been able to boot windows on the imac 17″, MacBook Pro and the Mac Mini, only problem seems to be the 20″ imac because of its different driver
Check the ongoing discussion here: http://forum.osx86project.org/index.php?showtopic=11731&st=0 if you are able to get on …
and as for booting XP on a mac, i don’t see why so many people see it as useless. Now you can have mac os x (which is generally accepted to be more secure, simpler to use, …) and have XP for your games and applications that don’t run on mac os x yet. This is just eliminates another reason why people don’t want to switch.
more discussions:
http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/16/xp-on-x86-is-official-narf-gets-paid/#comments
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=187050
http://apple.slashdot.org/apple/06/03/16/1329206.shtml
March 16th, 2006 at 11:51 pm
I don’t see why this guy won, the contest rules clearly state “2. Windows must be able to coexist with Mac OS X and each system may not interfere with the operation of the other (basically a traditional dual boot system where one OS is running at a time)” It may have shown some weird partitions, but it didn’t show Mac OS X boot.
March 16th, 2006 at 11:57 pm
I dont usually post on these kind of things, however I think it a little suspicious that the image blurs out as the camera approaches the system properties in control panel, I would have to go for the PC mobo in an apple case option, but thats my own opinion
March 17th, 2006 at 12:20 am
anyone who knows a mac and a pc knows that this is a mod that you can do to a mac… you can modify every boot screen to look however you would like… this is a fake, and i say that because the white boot screen with the windows logo is part of the mac os, there is usually a gray apple there which can be replaced fairly easily… i don’t buy it because the new intel chip in the mac is not the same kind of intel chip on a PC.
March 17th, 2006 at 1:01 am
Check out this site:
http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/16/windows-xp-on-mac-solution-posted/
March 17th, 2006 at 3:44 am
Im thinking that he has got some adaptor to link the screen to a windows pc and has just customised the boot screen!
March 17th, 2006 at 6:04 am
Why would one want to put Windows on an Apple computer… the whole reason in buying an Apple computer is because the operating system is far superior to that of Windows… Argue it all you want, but keep in mind that Apple’s OSX came out nearly 4 years ago now… take a look at the new Windows operating system and compare the two… The superiority comes from the fact Bill Gates and his team can’t think up their own ideas
March 17th, 2006 at 6:21 am
Coudln’t you easily do a video recording of a boot on the PC, save it and play it on the Mac?
March 17th, 2006 at 7:50 am
This is way to dodgy. I agree with glutamate, it would be fairly easy to make a recording of an windows installation and simply display it on the mac. If im not mistaken, it never shows his hand movement in conjunction with the movement of the cursor. Also, a lot of technology on that desk for the horrible camera resolution. I understand the resolution was smaller for posting on the web, but a shorter film, higher quality, and a better effort in proving his claim would have sold me… If no one else agrees flam away. just an opinion…
March 17th, 2006 at 8:56 am
said before, but it has proven to work, if u wanna try urself go to winxponmac.com
March 17th, 2006 at 12:54 pm
Guys, this is real. I’m posting to you on my MacBookPro running Microsoft Windows XP Pro w/sp2…
It dual boots using a typically sexy mac-style boot screen.
When I turn on my computer I it default shows the Mac logo, but if I press the down arrow the Windows logo appears (press up brings back the Mac logo). Pressing enter boots the selected OS.
Right now the only problems with XP are drivers. So far no drivers have been found for the video card or the bluetooth, but they expect to find some soon.
This totally makes buying my MBP worth it
March 23rd, 2006 at 7:17 am
I believe everything on the Internet. This is real.
April 22nd, 2006 at 11:18 am
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OrrO says:
I believe everything on the Internet. This is real.
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Than your an idiot!
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Its real man! I’ve tied it, its awesome!