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Mike here folks, reporting on some recent developments along the way of the road to a real windows installation on Apple hardware.

In case you all don’t already know, the reason why people haven’t been able to boot windows on the intel imacs already is because of the new firmware architecture that apple employs in it, the extensible firmware interface. I could go into detail about it, and why it differs from the class BIOS that we all know and love. Essentially it allows macs to do things similar to it’s previous firmware interface, open firmware. Things like target disk mode.
So some people have done some stupid things. Like screw with their EFI until there was absolutely no way to get their computer to boot again.

Other people have convinced their offices to order them a new macbook to replace a windows machine, and now must be able to install windows on it lest they lose their jobs. What’s cool about this, however, is there is a $3097 prize (and growing) for the first person to post instructions on how to install windows xp on an intel mac. So, you know, if you believe in your low level system kung fu, you might be able to pay off your iMac, and if the prize keeps growing, you can buy a macbook to boot (pun intended).

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