Christopher Smith wrote:
David Fenton wrote:After Jobs' presentation, Apple Senior Vice President Phil Schiller addressed the issue of running Windows on Macs, saying there are no plans to sell or support Windows on an Intel-based Mac. "That doesn't preclude someone from running it on a Mac. They probably will," he said. "We won't do anything to preclude that." However, Schiller said the company does not plan to let people run Mac OS X on other computer makers' hardware. "We will not allow running Mac OS X on anything other than an Apple Mac," he said. "We won't do anything to preclude that" seems pretty definitive to me.Sorry, I must be dense. It doesn't seem definitive at all to me. Does it mean that some genius kid hacker could modify the new Mac (or Windows) to run Windows, or that anybody could install Windows and all will be well? Will it run in a way that we will be happy with, at a reasonable speed with all ports addressed, MIDI and networking and printers and external drives and all?
Once you have a Pentium-class processor and an available partition on a hard drive which you can make into a primary DOS partition, you can install and run windows.
The statement seems essentially to be saying that on the new Macs which will be using the Intel chips, people could partition their hard drives and install Windows, and Apple won't build in any devices which would prevent that. Although I'm not sure that windows would necessarily work with the chipsets used to drive the Mac devices, so that might be an issue. But Apple seems to be saying it won't build any "you can't install or run Windows, this is a MAC-ONLY machine" code or hardware into the new machines.
As for whether it will run in a way that any windows user would be happy with is an entirely different matter, but that might only be a matter of time before Microsoft builds Mac device drivers into some future Service Pack or entirely new windows OS.
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