Hackers get Mac running Windows
 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4816520.stm

May be worth getting a mac now.

you can always just buy Virtual PC ;)

whats up dud! you're busy lately ?
it is me or you aint posting much news lately.
Dont give up!

why go to all the bother? Get a cheap PC, AND a mac if you have to, what can the more expensive mac do than a cheaper PC can't.

I think it mostly will be used for playing PC games on Macs, can't see any other reason why a Mac owner would want to run Windows.

lol dont encourage him like this

Yeah, so you buy a Mac machine, nice and expensive and then...you install Windows on it making it a Windows machine. What a great idea! (sarcasm)

Does it make sense? No, not really.

not great idea... great scam i guess.... microsoft win against the OSX by means of marketing news..

That's like putting a vw bug engine in a ferrari. Why bother.

Exactly. For years, Mac users have been able to install Windows XP on their machines using a program called "Virtual PC". You buy the program, receive a copy of Windows XP, and then have one computer with two OS's on it.

Why is this exciting news?

But, Macs come in all those pretty colors :1orglaugh

Have to say its just the challenge. years ago it was fun (for a geek) to see how many OS' I could boot on one machine. I Got fresbsd, BeOS, Suse linux and NT 4 to boot on a 400 Mhz dell and i got mac 8, BeOS and, yellow dog and nt running on virtual pc. hoestly now I can do anything i want on any OS. The Mac OS is cool in lots of ways, but it doesn't have the huge advantage in runing software I use anymore. In the 90's when I was a photoshop artist Mac was the only way to go. As a network guy though, there are a lot more tools on the pc. If you are a pc guy thinkin "i hate macs" rmemberthat at one time windows could only use 8 megs of ram, while a mac I had easily addressed 256. Of course a 64 meg stick cost 4 grand back then. Macs having given up the inherent floating point advantage of the motorola/ibm processor is sad, but at todays higher clock speeds, who cares. I build my own machines, and its way cheaper to build acustom pc. I would think it would be a etter contest to see if you could boot the Mac OS natively on a pc.

Why buy a MAC. Graphics

Just another stupid useless challenge... you can already run win programs on mac

Great, now I can pay 3 times too much for a windows box!

Yep. I'd rather just stick to paying 10 times to much for a POS Mac.

I used to have 12 operating systems booting from 3 hard disks on the same PC, just for fun. Now I use Virtual PC with about 20 virtual machines

i have virtually all version of windows installed on my virtual pc...