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dgiaimo Apr 5, 2006

You know, when I first saw this I thought they were crazy, but it sort of makes sense. Get people to use Mac hardware by allowing them to use Windows on their Macs, and then transition them over t...

iwz Apr 5, 2006

haha yeah. John C Dvorak was predicting a month back or so that Apple was going to drop OS X for Windows. He was pretty close! It's an interesting move, because they're now basically in the PC s...

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dgiaimoOG 2003 ·

Yeah the price is what has always stopped me from going back to Macs. We had macs growing up, but switched in '94/'95 when my dad bought me a 100 MHz Pentium.

BTW, someone else agrees with me:
http://www.osx86project.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=162&Itemid=2

deanh77 deanh77Founder ·

"the ability to dual boot Windows (and - likely - use it within OS X in Leopard via virtualization) is probably the trump card Apple was waiting to use. "

oh yeah. I'm buying a dual core mac mini

yay yayOG 2004 ·

who's to say MS won't ever allow it? They just said for now

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