Mac's get dual boot (to Windoze)

Post by **Sabre** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 11:14 am

Man, I can't believe "Mac boi Colin" hasn't annouced this yet!1!!!!!!!

Mac's Officially get dual boot to run Windows XP.

Even more reason for me to buy one...

Post by **complacent** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 11:41 am

yea, i've already got my disk partitioned and ready for the plunge. I just didn't want to make it seem like every nerd post I made was mac-centric. I'm honestly more interested about the work being done over on the Q project (offshoot of qemu proj) and then there's always the folks over at Darwine too.

Ahh the possibilities...

Post by **Sabre** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 11:48 am

lol:
"Project Q is the Youth Program of the Milwaukee LGBT Community Center. Project Q provides a safe space for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning youth and their straight allies ages 24 and under."

Colin, I never knew....

Post by **complacent** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 12:29 pm

^^^ Dude you've got some strange internets over there...

Post by **complacent** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 12:35 pm

zOMG!!! Apple themselves have released a dual boot solution for WindowsXP. Now you can have the best of both worlds with a software solution provided by apple! Now that's pretty wild.

software (free download)

Post by **Sabre** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 1:25 pm

^^^ Um ya, that's what I posted in the first place

Post by **complacent** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 1:38 pm

i r being slow today.

Mr Kleen · Post by **Mr Kleen** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 4:58 pm

just read an article on CNN about this. now if I only had the cash for a powerbook...

Post by **complacent** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 5:22 pm

You think that is cool, read the last post on this thread... Best of both worlds... Come on QEMU!!! Hurry it the hell up!!

Post by **Sabre** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 5:45 pm

This one?

Half-Life 2 has finished installing and updating, and I only have one word for it:

Phenomenal.

At 1440x900 it's smooth as silk.

VERY good news indeed!

Post by **complacent** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 7:11 pm

I'll let you know how it tuns out... I'm dd'ing my lappy as I type. Yay!

Mr Kleen · Post by **Mr Kleen** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 9:23 pm

schvin · Post by **schvin** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 9:46 pm

c'mon man, we're all sitting on our hands here in anticipation....

Post by **complacent** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 11:44 pm

I decided (against my best judgement) to not finish the dd route and try Apple's built-in ASR method of making a disk image and a command line restore utility. If you're in front of a mac os 10.x installation, just do a man asr. Interesting enough... Not terribly certain why it exists next to dd, but what do I know. Long story short it does a SHIT LOAD of checksumming, etc and is a fantastic way to waste a few hours. I am going to attempt a restore of my lappy in the next 20 or so to see how well (if at all) this imaging process works. If it restores right, I'll be using the boot camp sw in about 30 mins. Might have an update by 0100, we'll see. Trust me, I wanna see what Doom3 runs like on this expensive thing on my desk as much as you do.

To be continued...

Post by **Sabre** » Thu Apr 06, 2006 12:01 am

Thanks for the update dude, looking forward to it!

Post by **complacent** » Thu Apr 06, 2006 1:02 am

Kicking off teh restore now... Went from multiple partitions to a single partition (yea yea yea, shuddup - that's what bootcamp will work from) I'm willing to bet I don't have the patience to wait it out tonight. Hopefully I will have some sort of promising update tomorrow morning. We'll see.

*shrugs*

Mr Kleen · Post by **Mr Kleen** » Thu Apr 06, 2006 9:19 am

I was more excited about this before I looked up the prices on the new Intel Powerbooks last night.

Post by **complacent** » Thu Apr 06, 2006 9:41 am

Keep in mind that if you price together a similar Dell notebook you are neck and neck price wise. It's a (relatively) new processor, SATA HD, bla bla bla.. I mean the specs are pretty wild for a laptop.

Mine:
2.16 Intel Core Duo Proc
1GB 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM (PC2-5300)
15.4-inch (diagonal), 1440 x 900 resolution
ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 with 256MB of GDDR3 SDRAM and dual-link DVI
100GB Serial ATA/100 7200RPM
DVD/R, Bluetooth, 802.11g, IR, etc, etc.
(most of the above are pretty bleeding edge)

Yea it's not the best bargain on the planet. But if it can run BOTH OSes fast as snot, keep me to (FINALLY!) one computer, look pretty and last 4 or more years then it was well worth it. But like I've said before, I'm pretty biased.

For me the advantages of having a single machine that can do both jobs well is reeeely important. Our apt looks like a computer yard sale with a few beds and a couch. Trimming down the inventory would be very cool. And simpler, which is what Apple is all about.

chicken n waffles · Post by **chicken n waffles** » Thu Apr 06, 2006 9:55 am

it's true. if you were to remove all computer/audio-video/car-related equipment from our pad, you would see tumbleweeds

Post by **Sabre** » Thu Apr 06, 2006 10:51 am

lol, I've thought about selling my stuff off by the pallet, hahahaha.

Mr Kleen · Post by **Mr Kleen** » Thu Apr 06, 2006 11:04 am

sabre wrote:lol, I've thought about selling my stuff off by the pallet, hahahaha.

let me know, I have gobstoppers...

Post by **Sabre** » Thu Apr 06, 2006 11:38 am

No thanks, already paying for a new paint job with them

schvin · Post by **schvin** » Thu Apr 06, 2006 3:32 pm

It's been claimed Mac OS X 10.5 - i.e. Leopard - will use processor virtualisation to run multiple x86 operating systems without the need to re-boot.

http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/04/05 ... p_on_macs/

schvin · Post by **schvin** » Thu Apr 06, 2006 3:41 pm

http://www.parallels.com/

Post by **Sabre** » Thu Apr 06, 2006 3:54 pm

^^^ Check out Xen. It's a pretty decent product which is free