MacTel and Windows. For real this time?
Wednesday 15 March 2006 - Filed under Hardware + Software
It was only a matter of time. TPM and EFI be damned. We saw the screenshots a couple days ago, but that was met with a lot of whiners looking for videos and more proof.
So where’s the pudding?
- Fuzzy pictures of Windows booting on an Intel iMac
- Fuzzy video of Windows booting
- Forum posts discussing the solution by narf
- Independent verification picture
So, does this mean narf gets the prize money? Seems he submitted the solution and it is now in the hands of testers to verify.
Looks like we’re really there. Time to go buy me a Mac Book Pro.
Edit:
Fresh from an hour ago, the host of the contest, one sud0n1m posted this post:
“The solution is confirmed working on the 17in iMac and the MacBook Pro. It needs to be tweaked for the Mac Mini, and the 20in iMac. Once these tweaks are done then it will be released. We want to make sure that there arent 200 messages from angry 20in iMac users who cant get it to work. It will save a lot of time later by verifying it working on all systems now!”
Hotness. Confirmed from the man himself. Case closed.
2006-03-15 » mark
16 March 2006 @ 6:42 am
The OnMac Contest has now been officially won, at a final tally of some $13,854.
Reports on the forums are that overall, it works. Looks like drivers are working for almost all of the hardware. The notable exception at the moment is accelerated 3D graphics; no one has quite nailed that yet.
A public release of the fix is expected later today.
Ya heard it here first…
16 March 2006 @ 12:01 pm
The Contest at onmac.net has now put the WinXP solution up for download. The site is painfully slow though. osx86project.net seems to be down as well. They both must be getting slammed…aha, finally slashdotted I see…. probably dugg at the same time too.