With the switch to Intel Apple have removed this stumbling block and have opened many opportunities for it’s OS X operating system.Ĭurrently there are 2 solutions for Mac owners with an Intel chip for running Windows XP on their machine. Mac users had up until now relied on Virtual PC by Microsoft to run Windows on OS X, unfortunately due to the difference in the x86 chips commonly used in PCs from Dell, Sony etc and the old PowerPC chips used by Apple up until this year meant that there was a massive performance hit.
With Intel’s new Core Duo processors they introduced something called Virtualization (in particular native virtualization), this allows an operating system to run inside another with little if any loss in CPU speed. No sooner had the prize money been handed over had Apple announced their own solution to Windows XP on a Mac, a far more elegant solution and one that consumers could feel a lot more comfortable with.
2 months went by with no success then in March 2006 it was announced the competition was over. Donations were taken and steadily the prize fund grew to a whopping $13,854. Turn the clock back to January 22nd 2006 and to a competition started by enthusiasts to have Windows XP and OS X coexisting on a Mac.
