Onmac.net held a competetion to give money to the first person to get Windows XP running on a new Intel based Apple Computer and be able to dual boot with Mac OS X.
Some thought this might be counterproductive seeing as if people shared info it might happen faster. Several people contributed their own money to see it happen. The deadline was set March 30th and after that the money was to be donated to charity. At press time: $13,854, with donations still welcome I think.
It only boots XP SP2 right now but is successful on the current line of Intel Macs except the 20" iMac thus far. The drivers for the graphics cards aren't working properly yet, but besides that it's pretty much fully functional with the entire Intel line it sounds with drivers floating around for WiFi, ethernet and audio etc.
Some thought this might be counterproductive seeing as if people shared info it might happen faster. Several people contributed their own money to see it happen. The deadline was set March 30th and after that the money was to be donated to charity. At press time: $13,854, with donations still welcome I think.
It only boots XP SP2 right now but is successful on the current line of Intel Macs except the 20" iMac thus far. The drivers for the graphics cards aren't working properly yet, but besides that it's pretty much fully functional with the entire Intel line it sounds with drivers floating around for WiFi, ethernet and audio etc.
Basically, at some point, I want to build a bitchin' PTHD rig, and since I'll be spending so much on the Digi hardware, I don't want to have to spend an assload on a PowerMac as well (but I still want to run it on OSX if possible). Maybe by the time I'm ready to actually do that, fiscally speaking, OSX will support third-party systems. Or maybe not. In any case, that will be several years down the road (plus more if I have to buy a PowerMac too).
