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Tuesday March 21, 2006
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Installing Windows XP on our Macs was tedious, but went relatively smoothly. Check out the pictures below or return to the main story about booting Windows XP on a Mac. Some highlights of the process: 
We started by wiping and repartitioning our hard drives in the Mac OS X 10.4 installer. After dividing the drives in two, we installed OS X on the bottom partition and booted into OS X without trouble. 
Adding narf and blanka's special sauce -- a file called xom.efi -- and telling the system to boot to that file let us select between Windows and Apple icons while booting. We picked Windows, and dropped in a somewhat customized Windows XP Professional SP2 CD. 
Getting the installer to work on the 20" iMac required tweaking some video settings and trying not to be scared by this very strange screen that popped up. 
Windows XP setup ran pretty much like it does on any Windows machine, and we got our machines up and running smoothly. One problem, though: none of them shut down properly. Oh, well. It's an alpha.
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March 22, 2006 2:01 PM
This is awesome .... can I load palm OS on my MAC as well..woohoo..!!!
March 22, 2006 4:24 PM
Wow.. this is what I've been waiting for. Now I can go buy a Mac!
March 23, 2006 11:44 PM
Now can you load OS X on a PC?? I'd like to see that now that there's an OS X compatible with Intel processors.
April 6, 2006 4:20 PM
Macs have always been at the fore front of pc technology with firewire and usb on macs before pcs. Being able to run windows on a mac will definitely influence the possiblity of buying a new computer...a mac computer. This move will can only be a win for Apple and allow them to gain market share away from the big players in the desktop pc market (namely Dell, HP, Gateway, etc). Some wonder about running OS X on a pc, and my answer; Why would u want too? U can now runn Windows on a mac so the need to run OS X on a PC is unnecessary.