"Apple does Windows too"

Michael-SW · Post by **Michael-SW** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 12:55 pm

Official software that helps you run XP on your Intel Mac:

http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2006/ap ... tcamp.html

sqook · Post by **sqook** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 12:58 pm

My god, it's a miracle. When leopard comes out, I'm definitely springing for an intel mac now.

HD1 · Post by **HD1** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 12:58 pm

wow, if it comes to be that 3d software will work as efficiently on a mac machine as on a PC , I may pick up the next mactel quadstyle workstation instead of the pc equivilant I was thinking of getting later this year

HD1 · Post by **HD1** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 1:00 pm

fuck, this is great news

HD1 · Post by **HD1** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 1:07 pm

can any of the tech-heads speculate on how existing windows virus/backdoors/trojans/malware/etc/etc/etc might or might not work when running on a mactel machine.....

this seems like a great idea, but what about the dumbasses who've got dodgey viruses and dont know it, what happens if they install their virus infected .exe onto their mactel windows OS ? ...I suppose it just fucks the install of windows and doesnt permeate throughout the other OS's....unless they write malware for doing just that ? which would make the windows install a convieniant orifice for these shitheads to pass through....or maybe not, I have no idea what I'm talking about.

noisetonepause · Post by **noisetonepause** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 1:20 pm

Unless it's specifically written to target OSX through Windows, nothing will change.

gomi · Post by **gomi** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 2:06 pm

RopeyPunter wrote:can any of the tech-heads speculate on how existing windows virus/backdoors/trojans/malware/etc/etc/etc might or might not work when running on a mactel machine.....

straight from the apple site

"Word to the Wise

Windows running on a Mac is like Windows running on a PC. That means it’ll be subject to the same attacks that plague the Windows world. So be sure to keep it updated with the latest Microsoft Windows security fixes."

windows will always be windows, you can trash your macintel with viruse and
backdoors the same way you can any other machine running windows.

[amen warfare] · Post by **[amen warfare]** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 3:08 pm

What about Ableton? WHAT ABOUT ABLETON?

/M

Michael-SW · Post by **Michael-SW** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 3:13 pm

[amen warfare] wrote:What about Ableton? WHAT ABOUT ABLETON?

/M

Huh? You can run the windows version if you boot in windows and the OSX version if you boot in OSX.

Digi V · Post by **Digi V** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 3:41 pm

wow i'm in shock.

i dont know about the implications here but goddamnit wow.

really dont care much for running windows but i know some peeps out there who do, who enjoy some specific windows only apps.

boy, this is news.

gomi · Post by **gomi** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 3:43 pm

Michael-SW wrote:Official software that helps you run XP on your Intel Mac:

http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2006/ap ... tcamp.html

time to order a macbook pro

now i can play half life 2 on it
haha

Digi V · Post by **Digi V** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 3:50 pm

macs can now be an everyday computer.

a lot of work apps dont run on macs, now they do.

i know lots of musician who still have full time jobs that require window computers, now they can have it all.

insane.

HD1 · Post by **HD1** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 3:56 pm

lucky for those guys who made windows run on the mactel's for an underground cash-prize....what did they net, like 15 grand ? ....wasnt exactly a long time ago either...

i got an imac mactel as a performance machine for gigging, was gonna pick up a pc as a studio workstation so I could use some pc apps I couldnt live without......this meant not being able to use pci cards with some mac apps, like logic, that I would have loved to do.....now its possible, great.....all the benefits of mac hardware and 3 year support, and complete software coverage.....I cant ask for anything more then that in terms of computer hardware

snowtires · Post by **snowtires** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 4:00 pm

now what they need to do is, when they get the quad core mactels, figure out a way to boot up both osx and xp at the same time, each using one dual processor a piece. you could run everything you wanted in osx and have the xp running gigasampler or fruity loops! oh man, i haven't used fruity loops in years.

HD1 · Post by **HD1** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 4:05 pm

this could work out very well for windows too....a whole new range of quality computers can now support their software.......will microsoft drop the ball in terms of ironing out problems on their side ? will developers make allowances for any possible problems running their windows software on xp via a mactel ?

-really- glad I didnt spend my dough on a new PC

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