[Ham-Mac] MacOSG.com and Intel based iMac

Steve - VA3SPH va3sph at rac.ca
Wed Jan 11 18:11:12 EST 2006


Dick I just put my order in for one and will let you know how it  
goes. Expected deliver is 3-4 weeks.

Here is what I know on the VPC Windows/Intel....

Apple will be doing nothing to prevent Windows from boot on the new  
Intel based computers, however they are not supporting it either.

As this is the latest generation of Intel chip a new boot system  
(ROM) is in place called EFI.  Not sure if Windows is savy with EFI  
yet.  Also if you did boot into Windows you would not get to see Mac  
Partition unless you had some additional software. Windows does  
support HFS+ journaled.  But the Mac OS X does support NTFS as read  
only.

Remember drivers have to be written in Windows to support the various  
new hardware on the Mac. So it will take sometime to do this (without  
Apples help... again not supported).

I personally would like to see a new VPC like program which allow a  
Mac OS X window to be open running a windows application. Not unlike  
WINE on linux. If MS doesn't support or make a new VPC I am sure  
other will!!

Also note these new Intel based Macs DO NOT run Classic (OS 9)  
applications.  You have to have applications written for Mac OS X but  
they can be PowerPC written Mac OS X applications. There is a PowerPC  
emulator call Rosetta than run this great! I have run OS 9  
application in over a year so don't see an issue.

Hope this helps!

Steve - VA3SPH

On 11-Jan-06, at 3:24 PM, Dick Kriss, AA5VU wrote:

> Chris,
>
> Thanks.......  I may be ready for a new Mac this Spring.  Not sure  
> I want to
> be one of the first owners.   The speed looks impressive but I  
> can't type
> that fast to take advantage. HiHi
>
> Dick
>
>
> On 1/11/06 2:08 PM, "Chris Smolinski" <csmolinski at blackcatsystems.com>
> wrote:
>
>>> Nice looking web page with too much stuff and very hard to find  
>>> anything
>>> useful.  I need to spend some more time learning the ropes.
>>>
>>> My question for this group is regarding the new Intel based  
>>> iMac.  Since
>>> Microsoft announce today that Virtual PC will not run on the new  
>>> Intel based
>>> Macs, will you be able to partition part of the dive and install  
>>> Window and
>>> be able to run PC ham applications that will not run on the Mac.
>>
>> Not out of the box. I would imagine people will have Windows working
>> on them shortly, however, much as folks got OSX to run on non-Apple
>> intel machines very quickly ;-)
>
>
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