Can someone please explain to me why the moment that Apple decides to jump ship from the RISC PowerPC to Intel "Core Duo" CPUs that all of a sudden, there is a new fascination for people to run Windows XP on the new iMacs? Forget the fact that it currently isn't possible since the new iMacs use a new Extensible Firmware Interface rather than the good old BIOS we know and love - what's the attraction?
Most Apple fans are vehemently anti-Windows (maybe it's a pre-requisite) so installing that very same OS that they have scoffed at for its various security holes onto their precious new iMacs seems almost insane.
I always felt one of the biggest attractions to Apple was the whole closed system - they make the hardware and they make the software - which is why things supposedly are more stable, better integrated, etc. etc.
Windows does not have this ability because the OS has to be able to support a multitude of hardware and software configurations from thousands of vendors, all of which Microsoft has some but little control over. This in turn leads to the infamous BSOD (blue screen of death) that shows up once in a while with Windows as well as other instabilities and issues.
No surprise that Microsoft has no issue with people installing Windows on the new iMac (as long as they pay for it), just more revenue and market share for Windows and with users who are probably die-hard Apple fans - a new untapped market.
I remember those ads that Apple ran a little while ago with the whole "switch" campaign of people switching from Windows to Mac OS...got to love the irony
Here's a great FAQ on the situation from Cnet - Link Windows on the Intel iMac? Why?
Can someone please explain to me why the moment that Apple decides to jump ship from the RISC PowerPC to Intel "Core Duo" CPUs that all of a sudden, there is a new fascination for people to run Windows XP on the new iMacs? Forget the fact that it currently isn't possible since the new iMacs use a new Extensible Firmware Interface rather than the good old BIOS we know and love - what's the attraction?
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Can someone please explain to me why the moment that Apple decides to jump ship from the RISC PowerPC to Intel "Core Duo" CPUs that all of a sudden, there is a new fascination for people to run Windows XP on the new iMacs? Forget the fact that it currently isn't possible since the new iMacs use a new Extensible Firmware Interface rather than the good old BIOS we know and love - what's the attraction?
Most Apple fans are vehemently anti-Windows (maybe it's a pre-requisite) so installing that very same OS that they have scoffed at for its various security holes onto their precious new iMacs seems almost insane.
I always felt one of the biggest attractions to Apple was the whole closed system - they make the hardware and they make the software - which is why things supposedly are more stable, better integrated, etc. etc.
Windows does not have this ability because the OS has to be able to support a multitude of hardware and software configurations from thousands of vendors, all of which Microsoft has some but little control over. This in turn leads to the infamous BSOD (blue screen of death) that shows up once in a while with Windows as well as other instabilities and issues.
No surprise that Microsoft has no issue with people installing Windows on the new iMac (as long as they pay for it), just more revenue and market share for Windows and with users who are probably die-hard Apple fans - a new untapped market.
I remember those ads that Apple ran a little while ago with the whole "switch" campaign of people switching from Windows to Mac OS...got to love the irony
Here's a great FAQ on the situation from Cnet - Link
Can someone please explain to me why the moment that Apple decides to jump ship from the RISC PowerPC to Intel "Core Duo" CPUs that all of a sudden, there is a new fascination for people to run Windows XP on the new iMacs? Forget the fact that it currently isn't possible since the new iMacs use a new Extensible Firmware Interface rather than the good old BIOS we know and love - what's the attraction?
Most Apple fans are vehemently anti-Windows (maybe it's a pre-requisite) so installing that very same OS that they have scoffed at for its various security holes onto their precious new iMacs seems almost insane.
I always felt one of the biggest attractions to Apple was the whole closed system - they make the hardware and they make the software - which is why things supposedly are more stable, better integrated, etc. etc.
Windows does not have this ability because the OS has to be able to support a multitude of hardware and software configurations from thousands of vendors, all of which Microsoft has some but little control over. This in turn leads to the infamous BSOD (blue screen of death) that shows up once in a while with Windows as well as other instabilities and issues.
No surprise that Microsoft has no issue with people installing Windows on the new iMac (as long as they pay for it), just more revenue and market share for Windows and with users who are probably die-hard Apple fans - a new untapped market.
I remember those ads that Apple ran a little while ago with the whole "switch" campaign of people switching from Windows to Mac OS...got to love the irony
Here's a great FAQ on the situation from Cnet - Link 
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