Comments on: Dual-Boot Windows on Apple Hardware, Run Music Apps?

By: tom

tom — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 09:30:48 +0000

i am having problems installing sony sound forge.it is telling me that i need an extra bit of software to install it.

By: jhalstead

jhalstead — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 13:56:58 +0000

Installed XP on our office test iMac yesterday. Was up and running on our wireless network pretty painlessly. Then installed drivers for TranzPort, installed Sonar 5, and the US-122. Bottom line: everything worked. It's a test/development machine and I'm not using it to create music so I can't tell you if all of the plugins worked or how performance is. I experimented with another usb device (alpha hardware/software) and managed to crash windows a couple of times, so there might still be a few kinks to work out. Overall it's pretty impressive.

By: bucky

bucky — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 15:36:40 +0000

soon enough they’ll introduce virtual engines for running windows and linux concurrent with OS X.

macha, dream on. apple will never enable os x on competitors machines, though you may run a hacked version.

and sheesh, you windows guys ought to stop worrying about what apple “thinks” of you.

By: admin

admin — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 14:21:36 +0000

Well, leave it to Apple to try to convince people to switch while sending a strong message that they’re better than them, yes. Though, then again, I think the diss was at Windows, not necessarily Windows users. Not that average people care about (or know, or NEED to know, really) what BIOS is.

Trash-talking BIOS. It’s come to this.

But yes, I’d like to know how it goes. Mossberg from the Wall Street Journal was happy. Other than that, I just need to rustle up a full install XP disc and try the thing for myself before I have to send back my MacBook. The only real issue should be internal Apple drivers, if I understand correctly; once you’re out in external hardware land (USB and whatnot), I think your Windows drivers will actually work. So Apple has solved a lot of the major stumbling blocks here. And we’re still just in beta until OS X 10.5.

By: m15a

m15a — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 14:10:09 +0000

i think this marketing idea could work for the intended market. it’d help if the site didn’t make windows users feel like idiots. (although the statements are subtle.)

anyway, the real issue is how well it runs. when someone gets it up and running, i’d like to hear how well it works with a variety of applications. if it only works “kinda”, there won’t be much point for the people that want to install wondows to play the latest games or run powerful music software.

By: macha

macha — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 10:23:52 +0000

ha max msp on a mac book pro. For the time being under XP. Then when Max UB is released , i ll get rid of XP asap.

By: kloosterj

kloosterj — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 09:38:11 +0000

Hope this leads to the availability of OSX on PC hardware. Or even better: the re-availability of Logic Audio for Windows! As a former Logic user, i’m dying to upgrade my 5.5 version (and AMT8, and the so-called BigBox apps) to the latest versions. I invested in Apple, obviously, so why not give something back?

By: reflex

reflex — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 04:27:41 +0000

The ability to dual-boot XP/OS X virtually guarantees that my next work machine will be a Mac.

However, dual boot doesn’t do me much good in the music world. Nearly all of my software is available on both platforms, and it’s not like I can run both OSes at once on the same machine – I still have to choose. :)