From: "RobertB." 

In article ,
 "Robert Comer"  wrote:

> XP SP2 doesn't use EFI itself either...

Hmmm. Interesting. Beats me what they did then. r.


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> Bob Comer
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> "RobertB."  wrote in message
> news:rb28-F35B64.11401510072006{at}w3.nls.net...
> > Well, there is BootCamp, but AFAIK, Vista did not work with the current
> > Intel EFI. What works (officially) is XP with SP2 .
> > r.
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> > In article ,
> > "Robert Comer"  wrote:
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> >> There's a boot manager that you can install so you can run Windows OS's
> >> on
> >> the Mac hardware, it does the translation between EFI on legacy stuff.
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> >> Bob Comer
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> >> "RobertB."  wrote in message
> >> news:rb28-BAB08B.14234408072006{at}w3.nls.net...
> >> > How'd they get it on there? Vista is not supposed to run
on the new Mac
> >> > hardware. I was led to understand that the new MacIntel
laptops use EFI
> >> > and that Vista does not yet support that.
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> >> > r.
> >> >
> >> > In article ,
> >> > "Rich Gauszka"  wrote:
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> >> >> Hopefully they stabilized the Mac by running Vista as a vm app
> >> >>
> >> >> http://www.uneasysilence.com/archive/2006/06/6883/
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> >> >> No, this isn't some marketing goof up, when the Windows OS is
> >> >> superimposed
> >> >> over a piece of Apple hardware with the Apple logo
removed. Microsoft
> >> >> chose
> >> >> to install Windows Vista, as well as Office 2007 on
a piece of Mac
> >> >> hardware,
> >> >> a MacBook Pro to be precise, to demonstrate the power of their
> >> >> upcoming
> >> >> OS
> >> >> and application suite.
> >> >>
> >> >> The presentation of windows vista and office 2007
for a group of
> >> >> bloggers
> >> >> at
> >> >> Microsoft HQ in Diegem, Belgium. June 2006.
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