“The Texas man who jumped-started the effort to get Windows XP to dual-boot on Intel-based Macs posted the winning solution on his site Thursday, and said the contest’s cash prize of nearly $14,000 had been won by a pair of Californians,” Gregg Keizer reports for TechWeb News. “In January, Colin Nederkoorn of Houston began taking donations for a prize to be awarded to the first developer who came up with a way to boot an Intel Mac into either Mac OS X or Windows XP. Within days, he had raised thousands. Nederkoorn had a selfish reason for the contest: He wanted to downsize from two machines — a PowerPC-based Mac and a PC running Windows — that he was using at work to just one, an Intel MacBook Pro he’d ordered as soon as Apple debuted the new systems.”
“Two men collaborated to come up with the solution, said Nederkoorn. Although he said they lived in California, he wouldn’t disclose their names, saying that they wanted to remain anonymous for now,” Keizer reports. “To produce a dual-boot Mac, users must customize a Windows XP installation CD by burning a new disc that includes the custom bootloader files. The Mac must also be partitioned — a disk partitioning utility is included with the machine — so that Mac OS X and Windows XP can co-exist on the same drive. Nederkoorn was very satisfied with the solution. ‘The Mac runs Windows extremely well,’ he said… ‘There are driver issues right now. There’s not a good video driver for Windows XP,’ he said. ‘And the Mac crashes when you shut down Windows. People are going to need to talk to each other and share [information]… I think this could be a big boom for Apple,’ Nederkoorn agreed. ‘On a dual-boot, Windows is directly accessing [Intel’s] Core Duo [processor]. I’ve never had a laptop this fast.'”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: As we asked back in early June 2005, using “Dell” as a stand in for all Windows box assemblers, “Why buy a Dell when Apple ‘Macintel’ computers will run both Mac OS X and Windows?” Wait until Wall Street figures this one out. With a few issues left to iron out, it’s almost time to shut down the company and give the money back to the shareholders, Mikey.
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They should remain anonymous forever. The IRS will be all over their as#es to collect taxes on that nearly $14,000.00 as soon as they say who they are.
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So how do you do it exactly. Details please, I miss Carmagedon.
“Intel-based Apple Mac runs Windows XP ‘fast, extremely well'”
So f-ing what. XP runs fast on POS Gateways too.
MDN, please stop reporting on this. Now that we’ve climbed Everest and have XP on a Mac, let’s all clean our collective shorts and boot back into Mac OS X.
Hey is there a prize if I get TRS-DOS (ancient Radio Shack DOS) running on a Mac? There might be some apps there I’d like to run on a Mac too.
keep this away from me . . . keep it away.
Yes this is good news, I also want to get rid of my Windows machine and consolidate to MacBook Pro only. Those who whine “Why would anyone want to boot Windows on their Mac” are nuts. Why have two machines?? Some of us need to access Windows apps and web pages that are not accessible on Macs. Uh . . . has anyone ever heard of Quickbooks Online Edition?? Can’t access that site on a Mac, period. My whole business is run on QBO Edition and I can’t access the site through my MBP. It’s not that we’re crazy or want to invite viruses, we don’t want two machines. Call me crazy but I’m dying to see Windows on Intel Macs.
Does anyone know if this new hack will include Windows Vista?
Get the instructions and software here. http://download.onmac.net/
MDN please continue reporting and updating us on the progress of this latest discovery. Disregard the individuals with no business sense. This is big for Apple and any switcher on the fence. This will sway buyers if they realize they could continue to use their “important” Windows apps on a Mac and using the Mac as their primary machine for email, browsing, etc. More people using Macs, means more software developed for the platform. How stupid can some of you be??? This is huge asshats!
Windows runs on a Mac, BIG FRIGGIN’ DEAL.
Idiots of the world rejoice I guess!
“I got Windows to run on a Mac!”
“WTF?”
“Uhhhhh…….duhhhh……..”
‘And the Mac crashes when you shut down Windows.’
Anything more to say? Please, stick to your OS’ses:
Mac runs OS X
PC runs Windows
Anything else is perhaps needed, but still far away from running stable.
This is great news: The Blue Screen of Death comes to the Mac! Whooopeee!
“And the Mac crashes when you shut down Windows.”
But is a Mac if it’s running Windoze? Maybe its an Apple PeeCee?
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stfu
After a complex sequence, anyone can ram-jam a Ford engine into their Porsche using these instructions. It makes it run as fast as other Fords, but it still has most of the maintenance problems of Ford engines.
Ah… okay… your point is what…?
sacrilege!!!
If you have no need to run Windows on your mac, that’s great. Really. I’m happy for you.
However, please understand that many of us DO have a real need to run Windows. I can understand that from the perspective of someone who doesn’t need Windows, putting it on a Mac can seem like a stupid or pointless idea. Would those people try to understand that from our perspective it is a huge leap forward in the functionality of our mac?
Obviously we would all prefer to have some sort of virtualization or emulation solution, but until that comes along, this is by far better than VirtualPC.
So please, please shut up with the “ZOMG WHY RUN WINDOZE ON A MAC WTFWTF” comments, you’re just embarrassing yourself.
Thanks MDN for covering this and for recognizing the importance of this to the mac platform, and many of its users.
If our friend “whatever” was alive in 1903….he opens his newspaper…..
DATELINE – Kitty Hawk, NC – Dec 17, 1903 — After years of hard work, aborted attempts, and practice glider flights, a pair of bicycle builders from Dayton, Ohio, Wilbur and Orville Wright, managed the first powered flight of what is being called an ‘airplane’. Wilbur was only aloft for 12 seconds and observers said, ‘the course of the flight up and down was exceedingly erratic, partly due to the irregularity of the air, and partly to lack of experience in handling this machine.’ Nevertheless, experts are crediting the Wright Brothers with the first manned, powered flight. At this time, the practical applications of such an achievement are unclear until they make additional flights.—–
“whatever” responds…
” So f–ing what. My horse runs faster on the ground. It is exceedingly beautiful, and it loves me. I understand it, and I can ride it much longer than 12 seconds. Please stop reporting on this. Now that we’ve climbed the mountain and have this stupid “air-thingy”, let’s all clean our collective shorts and get back on our horses. Hey, is there a prize if I can get sound to work in movies? I’d sure like to be able to hear those actors say words.”
Very easy instructions and downloadable files at all these sites.
harrisonjordan.com/Winxponmac_0.1.zip
leewilkins.com/share/winxponmac0.1.zip
http://www.jerrybrace.com/Winxponmac 0.1.zip
http://www.geekdinner.co.uk/winxponmac0.1.zip
http://www.apple.tempex.sk/wordpress/Winxponmac 0.1.zip
For driver issues check out wiki.onmac.net/
Not a big fan of this, My boss sees the day we only purchae the PC versions of software for me to use on my Macs. He questions if the Macs will be needed now that there are efforts to dual boot them he dismisses the need of them even more. This is a sad day.
It can be done in under 3o minutes, but you need a PC and a copy of Windows XP.
I would clone the present Mac OS X to a external and disconnect it before tampering.
So far it’s been run successfully on two Macbook Pro’s, iMacTels and MiniTels.
Welcome to Windows Mac users, it’s not as bad as you led to beleive.
Guys:
Hold on before you get too excited. Apple (or any of its retailers) CANNOT promote this. It is an illegal hack of Windows — a violation of the DMCA. Apple promoting this hack would be as legal as Dell promoting the various OSX for Intel hacks as a way to load OSX on a Dell.
Sorry, y’all.
Rainy Day said: “ But is a Mac if it’s running Windoze? Maybe its an Apple PeeCee?”
But really meant: But is it a Mac if it’s running Windoze? Maybe its an Apple PeeCee?
While partly in jest, there is, nonetheless, a really serious philosophical question in there too. Part of (most of) what makes a Mac a Mac is the OS. Mac hardware running Windoze is devoid of its soul.
I’m telling you, Apple is transitioning to be a regular PC vendor
Hundreds of thousands of iMactels in schools and graphic shops will now be converted to Windows XP to comply with the rest of the world.
Those in IT who have to put up with Mac OS X and it’s snotty userbase now can change things without buying new hardware.
Face it folks, it’s over for Apple.
And “its” should have been “it’s”! <sigh>
I don’t know what to make of my fellow mac-users that don’t see the usefulness of this. Over the past 12 years, I have to wean every new employee off their PC bigotry, including my book-keeper. The lone hold-out in the group said, upon hearing this news on Gizmodo ” I’m there”. When we can run our PC only apps and use QB Pro Online to network, and use small business groupware that don’t exist in Macland, then all our problems are solved, as they are for hundreds of thousands of other small and medium sized businesses that need this solution to work. Virtual PC just didn’t work well enough.
MacDude: Better go to your shrink and get your med’s checked.