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[Lemon Lime]

this guy has ALMOST got vista running on his intel imac. but, he has a problem, lets help him out!

here is the link: http://forum.osx86pr...showtopic=10184

[mrnintendoguy]

...But I don't wanna run Vista!

[Mister Mumbles]

Especially when it takes that much work and it still doesn't run. Not to mention that the performance levels would still needed to be determined.

Count me out.

[Space_Pirate_Killer]

How can we help him out? This isn't a community with a lot of people experienced in hacking.

[Batcat]

...and while Vista is feature-complete, it's hardly shipping code.

"Look! You can run XP on the OSX Intel dev build! Piece o' cake, two weeks tops!"

[atari]

Lemon Lime, on February 27th 2006, 11:14 PM, said:

this guy has ALMOST got vista running on his intel imac. but, he has a problem, lets help him out!

here is the link: http://forum.osx86pr...showtopic=10184

Sorry to sound like an ass,but why would I fiddle around with my perfectly working install of Tiger to get an unfinsihed MS OS working?

[Hippieman]

How much do you think he makes an hour?  Lets assume something easy like $10 bucks an hour.  A Vista capable PC lets say is 800 bucks.  So that's 80 working hours.  Think he's spent over 80 hours on this yet?  I bet he has

[macmanZ]

I think he's doing something for the community.  I don't exactly get the "where did the vista copy he's using come from", but it would be an interesting first step in getting windows onto our macs.  I know I would appreciate being able to run some higher end windows only 3d cg apps.

[Lemon Lime]

mrnintendoguy, on February 27th 2006, 07:04 PM, said:

...But I don't wanna run Vista!

so you dont want to play half life 2, or f.e.a.r on your iMac?

[Eric5h5]

Lemon Lime, on February 28th 2006, 06:44 PM, said:

so you dont want to play half life 2, or f.e.a.r on your iMac?

Not when it involves giving a few hundred $$ to MS for the OS just to play a couple games, no.

--Eric

[iRolley]

Eric5h5, on February 28th 2006, 10:20 PM, said:

Not when it involves giving a few hundred $$ to MS for the OS just to play a couple games, no.

--Eric

Agreed. I bought a Mac, cos it runs OSX. OK ok, my intel iMac also looks gorgeous, but I bought it for OSX. I have absolutely no interest in Macs running windows, and I don't think it is a good thing if a software company starts announcing that their products will work if I buy Windows for my Mac.

[atari]

iRolley, on March 1st 2006, 04:35 AM, said:

Agreed. I bought a Mac, cos it runs OSX. OK ok, my intel iMac also looks gorgeous, but I bought it for OSX. I have absolutely no interest in Macs running windows, and I don't think it is a good thing if a software company starts announcing that their products will work if I buy Windows for my Mac.

Excellent point!

[Lemon Lime]

alright, alright, you can stop know. i give up. Battle cat, if you want,  you can delete this thread.

[the Battle Cat]

How about a compromise between you and them?  I'll lock the thread so those who don't like the idea will get off your case but those who want to help can still use the link.  Sound like a good trade off?  PM me if you disagree.