To: aruanan
Or you could run it on the OS it was designed for but on a Mac and skip all the attendant problems.
Which would require Bootcamp, because motherboards in Macs have BIOS that isn't intended to boot Windows. I think I'll run my OS on hardware that was designed for it.
Furthermore, the last time I bought a machine Apple didn't offer a Mac with a top end NVidia video card. That was a deal breaker even without having to hack the OS to run my Windows programs.
17 posted on
05/16/2008 1:04:42 PM PDT by
JamesP81
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To: JamesP81
Furthermore, the last time I bought a machine Apple didn't offer a Mac with a top end NVidia video card. That was a deal breaker even without having to hack the OS to run my Windows programs.
I didn't have that problem way back in 2001 when I got the Quicksilver G4.
21 posted on
05/16/2008 1:07:14 PM PDT by
aruanan
To: JamesP81
the last time I bought a machine Apple didn't offer a Mac with a top end NVidia video card.They do now. You can get an NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS with 512MB memory on an iMac. See here.
38 posted on
05/16/2008 1:26:56 PM PDT by
zeebee
To: JamesP81
Which would require Bootcamp, because motherboards in Macs have BIOS that isn't intended to boot Windows. I think I'll run my OS on hardware that was designed for it. They don't have 30 year-old BIOS, they have the new EFI with BIOS compatibility. Windows has been EFI native for the Itanium platform for years, but it has recently crept into the x86-64 world with the 64-bit Server 2008 and Vista SP1.
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