Windows XP on a Mac

As a contestant of the WindowsOnMac contest has submitted — Windows XP on a Mac photos.

While it hasn’t been confirmed that such is a legitimate hack, it seems odd to me that there is a contest for people to install Windows on a Mac, and not Mac on a Windows. I think many would argue that the counter parts of PC hardware compared to Mac hardware are much better (in terms of $/speed). Then why would there be the need to run Windows and Mac on a Macintosh? Why not run Windows and Mac on PC since it is evidently faster?

The OSX86, run Mac OSX on a PC, has been going on for the last year. Not a single straight-forward working hack has been released. And how long has WindowsOnMac been running? 2 months.

The lucky bum who cracked this is getting $12,000, donated by supporters. I would really like to see Mac OSX run on my PC and if there was such a contest, I would definitely contribute to the prize.

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  1. 1March 13th, 2006Elliot Swan says

    People have tried to do it the other way around, but it breaks copyright law. there’s even a poem inside OSX about it

  2. 2March 14th, 2006Oliver Zheng says

    I guess changing the core files of OS X is against the law, but wouldn’t the contestants of WindowsOnMac have to do the same to Windows XP?

  3. 3March 16th, 2006Sean says

    I’m pretty sure it works the same both ways with those laws…

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