Re: Will new MacIntel 'book run Windows?

Davoud:
> > I won't take the bet, but given that Apple Senior Vice President Phil
> > Schiller said "We won't do *anything* to preclude that," why do you
> > expect that installing Windows XP on a Mactel will be less trivial than
> > installing Windows XP on any other Intel machine?

> > ...An engineer with
> > considerable experience with a Mactel prototype told me that the
> > prototype looks exactly like any other Intel machine to the Windows
> > installer,

Gregory Weston>
> Okay. I think that's fairly common knowledge by now. But...

> > and that the production Mactel would do likewise.

> ... I'm curious where _that_ assertion comes from.

Sorry, but the proverbial NDA requires me to protect the source of the
assertion. Broad hint: the source is /very/ authoritative when speaking
about Apple hardware.

> > So, maybe I'm naïve, but I expect that to be true. We'll settle this --
> > or see it settled -- in '06.

> Yep. I'm just afraid of what happens if I'm right. There are going to be
> a lot of people angry that Apple didn't keep a promise they didn't make.

Do you think Apple doesn't know that?

"...won't do *anything* to preclude that" sounds like a promise to me.
While it may not be a specific promise that one will be able to install
and run the Windows operating system on a Mactel, it strongly implies
that one will be able to do so. If apple doesn't do *anything* to
impede the installation, what do you think would prevent the
installation of Windows on an Intel-based computer, beyond the
vicissitudes of installing Windows?

Furthermore, as I think about how foolish it would be for Apple to
release a Mactel on which it was difficult or impossible to install
Windows, the more I am convinced that Apple will take such positive
steps as are necessary to ensure that installing Windows on a Mactel is
no different from installing it on any other Intel-based computer --
they just won't talk about the steps they have taken.

Davoud

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