Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 20th Jan 2006 21:39 UTC
Apple Computer's announcement of new Macs based on processors from Intel raises an interesting question: Since both the Mac and Windows operating systems now run on Intel-based hardware, shouldn't it be easy to run both on the same computer? That simple question deserves a simple answer. But there isn't one - at least not right now. Reaching the nirvana of running the two most popular desktop operating systems on one machine is a lot harder than you might expect.
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RE: Partitions are partions
by BlackJack75 on Sat 21st Jan 2006 15:33
in reply to "Partitions are partions"
Member since:2005-08-29
It's not the partition I think but rather the partition scheme. If you open Disk Utility on a mac you can see you can chose between Apple Partition Table or IBM PC partitition table (or something like that).
It is very unlikely that Windows would run on a partition inside an Apple Partition table.
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2005-07-06
You can have a whole variety of differently formatted partitions on one hard drive. For instance I have a PC where I had BeOS, OS/2, Windows, and Linux all with different file systems each in their own partition on one hard drive. No big deal at all. So there is no issue with that in have multiple OSs on one computer. In this case it is the non EFI compatible OSs that stop them from being installed on intel Macs.