Mac Forum / Applications / Other MS Products / April 2006

It affects Microsoft because it opens a new Market for Windows software
and other Microsoft software (The Intel Macs support Windows but you have
to buy a Windows CD to run Windows on the new Intel Macs), unless you have
a site licence as I do.

I have a new Apple Intel Powerbook Pro and both OSX and Windows work
fine.  I partitioned the disk to give 40 Gb each to Windows and OSX, and
as a result one cannot drag and drop files between Windows and OSX. This
is because you cannot format the Windows partition in FAT32 if the
partition is bigger than 32 Gb, and the Mac cannot write to NTSF-formatted
disks, although it can read the files. So I use a USB flash memory stick
to transfer files between the two systems.

Windows on the 21.8 GHz dual core intel chip is actually faster than the 2
GHz chip that I have on my old PC at home (Fritz9 chess analysis runs
twice as fast! But there may be other issues slowing down the home PC,
such as the fact that I haven't reinstalled Windows on it for over 3
years...

Anyway so far the Mac runs all PC programs I have tried, such as Office
and Photoshop, and games like Fritz9 and Oblivion just fine. I DO
recommend that you put in at least 1 Gb of memory - with only 512kb,
Oblivion stuttered a lot until I added another 512. I just ordered another
2 Gb of memory, otherwise I expect trouble when running multiple programs.

Henri

I think it'll be good for those in the corporate setting who prefer using
OSX but have to use microsoft at work, I don't think it's possible yet, but
I'm sure it won't be long until people are dual booting on the new intels,
and people already are on PC's with leaked copies of OSX86. Jobs won't like
it, but it's a matter of time.

Which brings up another point, Microsoft is nice enough to support Windows
emulation on a mac with Virtual PC and such, but Jobs refuses to allow
windows users to do the same thing.

What would be interesting, is to see if Vista ships with support for the
motherboard systems utilized by OSX86. Traditional Bios, etc isn't used by
apple software, at least that's what some article I read said about it. PPC
architecture coupled with a speedy Intel chip and Windows would run at
blazing speeds if done correctly. I'm basing this assumption on the simple
fact that I'm running iTunes, Word 2004, Entourage, Stickies, iChat, and MSN
Messenger comfortably on a PPC G3 with a 500Mhz processor and only 128MB of
RAM, on OS X Panther, and it's running fairly smooth. With XP as it is now,
It'd be slower than Christmas with this setup, yet this little iBook is
running pretty darn good.

Imagine, if you will, Windows XP with that kind of processing power on a
nice, fast Intel chip. Better yet, let's make this pretty. Imagine Vista
running on that, dual core.

On 1/29/06 6:29 PM, in article 290120061629477726%rag@nospam.techline.com,