Windows XP on Macs

[Lamp]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4883482.stm

Met a m8 for lunch yesterday who showed me his new 15" Apple laptop. Apparently its THE fastest laptop in the world. And now it can run XP. Nice

 

[Naffets]

fastest laptop in the world? thats a laugh

The latest from evesham has 2 x 7800GTX in SLI and a dual core processor. It is good news that mac users can install xp on their macs, soon we may be able to install mac on a normal pc if we wanted to (i dont).

 

[Konah]

"all the stability of windows xp with the value for money of apple hardware - sign me up!"

funny quote i read yesterday on this topic

 

[Jeriraa]

Well, my XP is the most stable OS I have ever had. If something fucks up my PC then its usaly the games I run on it and not the OS.

You can hate MS all you want but you gotta give em that: XP is the most stable OS they ever made.

 

[Konah]

agree - but xp is just nt-2000 with some makeup slapped on so. fact is many ppl percieve xp as unstable and its certainly far more bloated than it should be.

when will m$ release an os that only installs what u want/need instead of installing everything on the off-chance you might need it... sigh

 

[cHodAX]

Windows 2000 SP4 is the most stable o/s Microsoft ever made, then they came along and bolted all the XP shite ontop and system stabilty went through the floor. Do you even remember the SP2 debacle where millions of people couldn't upgrade to SP2 because it killed thier systems or caused so many crashes as to make it unusable? 30+ hot fixes later and it is more stable but it still isn't patch on 2K SP4 when it comes to stability, 80% of my old corperate clients still refuse to install SP2 because of the problems the initial rollout caused.

 

[Lamp]

I got 4 computers running XP (including one running Tablet PC - is that XP ?)
I got a 19" Apple Powerbook. In my experience XP is a pretty stable environment but I have experienced some unexpected CTD etc. I've not had one single crash or system error using Mac OSX. I prefer Windows (maybe thats cos I'm used to it more) but OSX is nice too. My next system will be Apple.