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

[D. J.]

Just a couple weeks ago a local computer store offered a XP home  
edition machine, 1.8 Ghz AMD processor with a 80 G. drive for $250,  
U.S..  If you need a windows box why not buy one, they're cheap enough.

Dale



On 11, Jan 2006, at 17:11, Steve - VA3SPH wrote:

> 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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