John ([info]kearneyj) wrote,
2005-08-13 19:28:00
  • Mood: accomplished

Success!

I managed to get Windows Vista Beta 1 and OS X for Intel dual-booting on the same hard disk.

My computer at work is now ridiculously 1337.

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[info]hotokeoni

August 24 2005, 15:36:49 UTC 6 years ago

Is the Intel v. of OS X just a direct port of 10.3?

[info]kearneyj

August 24 2005, 16:41:38 UTC 6 years ago

Actually it's a port of 10.4.1. Everything that comes with the OS is compiled for Intel, but it can still run PowerPC applications using Rosetta.

[info]hotokeoni

August 24 2005, 16:47:53 UTC 6 years ago

What sort of system are you running it on and have you done any benchmarking?

[info]kearneyj

August 24 2005, 17:16:02 UTC 6 years ago

It's on a 3 GHz Pentium 4 with 1 GB of memory and a GeForce 6600 video card (although OSX only recognizes it as a generic VESA card, so no acceleration.) I haven't done any formal benchmarking, but native applications are snappy and PowerPC applications run at acceptable speeds. Unfortunately Adium crashes about once a day and the system boots properly only about 1 in 3 times, but considering this is beta software running on a non-Apple-approved system, it runs very well.

[info]hotokeoni

August 24 2005, 19:29:54 UTC 6 years ago

Not a bad setup. Too bad about the video card. I think I'm going to bug you more about it as the experiment progresses.
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