Re: VMWare on IntelMac? [Was: Re: 2 critical vulns and the clock is ticking..[Fwd:[EEYEB-2000801]]

[Andre Ludwig <andre.ludwig () gmail com>]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10794396/from/RS.3/


Phil Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of worldwide product
marketing, said in an interview Tuesday that the company won't sell or
support Windows itself, but also hasn't done anything to preclude
people from loading Windows onto the machines themselves.

"That's fine with us. We don't mind," Schiller said. "If there are
people who love our hardware but are forced to put up with a Windows
world, then that's OK."


Thought it was interesting, still doesn't deal with the EFI/BIOS issues.

Dre


On 1/11/06, Blue Boar <BlueBoar () thievco com> wrote:
> Tom Van Vleck wrote:
> > According to www.macintouch.com, "vmware already has a version for  Mac
> > OS X in development."
>
> Good to know.
>
> > Also from that site, attempts to run  VirtualPC
> > on an IntelMac just crash.
>
> I had lunch with someone who used to be one of the VirtualPC developers,
> and someone who just happened to talk to someone who is there now.  I
> was reminded that there is a VirtualPC for the PC that already takes
> advantage of the x86 it is running on, and is of course a big part of
> Microsoft's future virtual PC strategy.  MS already ships VirtualPC for
> the Mac in order to run one of the components in a copy of XP which they
> also give you for that purpose.
>
> So yes, it looks extraordinarily likely to me that we'll have a number
> of virtual x86 options available on the x86 Mac, and that there is a
> good chance that they will perform pretty well.  Plus, that's a great
> use for the second CPU core that a lot of apps won't otherwise use.
>
> Cool, a couple fewer reasons for me to hate OS X, which I've been trying
> for a couple of months.  Now, if we can just fix how some keyboard
> things work, window switching... a second mouse button on my laptop...
> then we can talk.
>
>                                                 BB
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