Gizmodo: macintel

MacIntel vs. Wintel

johnb — Fri, 14 Apr 2006 16:36:34 EDT

Now that the average Joe—you know who you are—can load XP on their Macs, let the benchmarking begin. Macologist ran about five million tests on similar and disparate machines and the MacBooks and iMacs consistently kept their heads above water. They didn't really run a summary paragraph, but all the numbers are there. While the methodology doesn't really compare Apples to, well, Apples, it's nice to see it in black and white.

Intel Mac Benchmark Smorgasbord [Macologist]

Installing BootCamp: The Video

johnb — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 09:27:25 EDT

Now that Mossberg sez this shiz is cool, it's time to give it a go. Luckily, someone beat us to the punch so we don't have to whip out the old VHS camcorder and boom mike.

The video comes in multiple formats, including an iTunes feed, so snap it up. If we start slamming the site, please post mirrors in comments.

Video Overview [UneasySilence]

MacIntel Dual-Boot Success!

Travis Hudson — Wed, 15 Mar 2006 13:29:29 EST

Who needs all of that mumbo-jumbo about the Mac Intel dual-boot. It has already been done, easy as pie. All you need is a little tape and you're good to go.

Success At Last [Cult of Mac]

XP On an iMac? Proof Positive?

johnb — Wed, 15 Mar 2006 11:44:05 EST

Here we go again. Fake? Real? Real fake? Please discuss, because I'm about done with all these MacIntel vids. [Thanks, Jean-Louis]

MacIntels Not To Boot Vista?

Gizloco — Mon, 13 Mar 2006 08:31:05 EST

Microsoft has just announced some potentially devastating news. Well, devastating to those folks who wanted to be able to boot Windows on their Intel-based Macs. Contrary to earlier assumptions, Microsoft Vista, the company s next major operating system, will not support EFI, the method used by MacIntels during boot up. EFI, which Intel hopes is to replace BIOS, will not be supported by Microsoft until Longhorn Server, due out next year. In short, this means that MacIntel users won t simply be able to put in a Vista install disc and have it just work. Expect hackers to have this problem licked in no time.

Sorry, MacTel owners: Windows Vista won't support EFI [Engadget]

Power User - The Best of Lifehacker

Gina Trapani — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 12:30:00 EST

This week at Lifehacker: Free your iPod from the shackles of iTunes. Witness operating system multiple personality disorder on a real live ThinkPad dual-booting Windows and Mac OS X. Scare your cat and get in shape with a sledgehammer and a sweater. Finally, master the art of portable computing with some tried and true laptop tips.

Oh, iTunes, how do I hate thee - let me count the ways. Free your iPod from iTunes' stranglehold once and for all. By installing standalone apps on your 'pod in disk mode, you can play, rip and transfer music from a PC to an iPod without iTunes or any other special software on the 'puter. Make yours a self-sustaining iPod.

There's been a lot of talk about whether or not a MacTel will be able to dual boot Windows and OS X, but friends of Lifehacker got OS X and XP dual-booting on an IBM ThinkPad just fine. A couple of video driver and wifi card wrinkles have to be ironed out, but otherwise the shiny round apple glows on a black IBM lappie.

What do you call a guy swinging a sledgehammer in his bedroom? A guy getting in shape, of course! Give a geek a rainy day that he doesn't want to go to the gym, and he'll invent home exercise equipment for "natural movements" like chopping down a tree and churning butter with a sledgehammer wrapped in a sweater. Why the sweater, you ask? So you don't hurt yourself, of course. Or the cat.

Be good to your lappie and it will be good to you. Extend your laptop's battery life, save the screen from scrapes, foil thieves' evil plan to mine your data, and learn how to work offline in our compendium of must-have laptop tips.

Lifehacker's Power User column appears every Wednesday on Gizmodo.

MacIntel Dual Boot? Fer Real? Not So Much

johnb — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 11:05:36 EST

Looks like an intrepid haxor has dumped Vista on a MacBook by fooling Vista into thinking that the MacBook has a BIOS in there somewhere. The instructions are kind of convoluted but we encourage you to try this at home and confirm that it works. No screenshots, unfortunately.

Using the Bootable Acronis Disk Director CD on the MacBook, shrink the Mac partition. Create a new partition of type NTFS/HPFS in the remaining space. Setup a clean version of XP on a PC. Extract Boot.7z to the root drive of your XP installation.. So you have C:\Boot\ Copy bcdedit.exe to the root drive of your XP installation. C:\BCDedit.exe ...

[Thanks, Lukas]

UPDATE - This is theoretical and not tested and not real. And I was so excited.
Windows XP on Mac? [Neosmart]

MacIntel Tested In the Wild

johnb — Fri, 11 Nov 2005 10:05:45 EST

ZDNet UK got their paws on OS X for x86 machines and basically is acting like the monkeys that discover the monolith and learn to use tools. That's not really all that bad, but it's amusing. They go through the whole process—2 hour install, partitioning fun, and the magic of Sherlock—to come to the conclusion that OS X on a Toshiba laptop is pretty cool. Heck, WE could have told you that.

Has anyone outside of the official media DLed and tried MacIntel? Drop me a line. I got burned once with a fake torrent and I'm not about to make that same mistake.

Apple Mac OS X on x86: a first test [ZDNet]

Apple C&Ds MacIntel Sites

johnb — Thu, 18 Aug 2005 13:14:30 EDT

Apple is outraged—outraged!—at the sites purporting to show how to install OS X for Intel chips on Sony Vaios. The thieving hobbitses that cracked OS X and posted a torrent will pay with a sternly-worded letter from Apple's lawyers and may EVEN RECEIVE ANOTHER ONE if they don't remove all mention of Apple from their various sites.

Next: Apple sends mercenaries to Norway when MakkenRumorenFlugen.net posts rumors of the iPod Skiffle, a version of the iPod that only plays pseudo-hillbilly music from the 1950s.

Apple cracks down on 'OSx86' websites, sends 'cease and desist' orders [MacDailyNews]

Everything You Need for an Evening of MacIntel

johnb — Fri, 12 Aug 2005 11:08:12 EDT

Candles, a bottle of red, some massage oils, and an OSX Intel torrent. It might not be like the first time, but it won't be the last, baby. Come on over here and sit next to me on the bearskin rug. We'll listen to a little Barry White, install a crack, and make our Vaio a Powerbook. In just a few minutes we'll be browsing with Safari and Desktop widgeting our way to undreamed-of heights of pleasure. What's that? No, OS X will never come between us, Windows Vista. Don't worry. Just lay back. Let me patch iTunes.

Can it be? Download your own copy of MacOSX for x86, and all the other info you could need [Uneasysilence]