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Why XP Will Never Officially Work on a Mac

Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 15th Feb 2006 15:15 UTC

"Apple has shiny new x86 based iMacs and the eloquently named MacBooks (yech) out on the market, and reviews, barring a few fawning toadies in the print media, are exceptionally rare. The usual Apple cooked benchmarks abound, but there is no real third party analysis, I think mainly because it is afraid of what will be found. The biggest bloomer is its tacit non-denials of the fact that the current x86 macs will never run XP in an approved or corporately acceptable fashion, and Vista is a long long long shot. Apple knows, is doing nothing to quell the rumours and speculation, and I think that's irresponsible."

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Why???

by tertiary_adjunct on Wed 15th Feb 2006 19:28 UTC

Member since:
2006-01-15

Why would you want XP on a mac?

I switched from Windows XP Pro to a PowerBook running OS X Tiger in August '05.

I have booted my old Windows box 3 times; each of which was to transfer old documents and email.

I have had 0 desire to go back to using Windows. Mac OS X has done everything exactly as I wanted.

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RE: Why???

by Chreo on Wed 15th Feb 2006 21:21 in reply to "Why???"

Member since:
2005-07-06

My goodness you ppl are dim.

There are loads of programs that does not work on Mac OS that ppl would want to run.

So YOU are saying THEY have NO valid reasons to run them... just because you don't. I for one is glad I'm not like you

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RE[2]: Why???

by as400tek on Wed 15th Feb 2006 21:22 in reply to "RE: Why???"

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2006-02-15

You will never be like us....there are loads of Apple Apps I would love to run on XP but can't but we are the last ones to complain....you were just putting it out there and we were answering you complaint.

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