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Windows running on a Mac? “God forbid!” the purists might say. But it’s happened and the flood gates are open, thanks to two elite geeks, “narf” and “blanka”.
- Almost every windows PC comes with some kind of Bloatware (Pre-installed software) which slows down the PC over time. But Macbook and iMac makes you free from this worry. It doesn’t mean that they don’t come with Pre-installed software. Mac computers have pre-installed software, but only from Apple and they don’t slow down your system as.
- Mac mini features the Apple T2 Security Chip — second-generation custom Mac silicon designed by Apple to make Mac mini even more secure. The T2 Security Chip consolidates several controllers into one, and includes a Secure Enclave coprocessor that provides the foundation for encrypted storage and secure boot capabilities.
AppleTalk Australia scooped an interview with one of them, blanka, (whose real name is Jesus Lopez - let the jokes begin about how it took Jesus to get Macs and Windows together). If you haven’t read it, it is interesting. Like all good geeks, what drove him and narf to try, was the claim it was impossible. Impossible to geeks means lots of low level coding, as he says:
- The consensus on running XP on a Mac was that it was impossible. Proving something thought impossible is actually possible is quite enticing. I like solving hard problems.
- It had been a while since I had done any significant low-level code programming. It’s always good to remember the good ol’ times
I tip my hat to them both, and thank them. In my household, there’s always the occasional CD or DVD that needs Windows.
I also watched the vidcast of Leo Laporte on MacBreak testing Windows XP on a Mac mini, he was simply stunned to see Windows running on a Mac, a feeling we’ll all experience in time. For a lot of us, we’ll have mixed feelings, partly overjoyed to not have to have a Dell or some such laying around the house or office for the occasions we needs Windows, but also a feeling of guilt and betrayal.
Besides those feelings of awe and guilt, what is the impact of Windows on Mac? What questions and doubts remain?
Does this implementation of Windows on Mac breach the Windows EULA?
The consensus is no. I don’t have a copy of the EULA to verify it, but Microsoft’s silence would also indicate it’s legal.
Is this Open Sourcing the Mac?
This is interesting because the Mac is, from a hardware standpoint, a closed shop. Apple provides hardware and the drivers. On Windows, the hardware vendors provide the drivers as well as Microsoft providing many of its own, and generic ones. Whereas on Linux, many drivers, especially early in its life, came from the developer community.
It’s quite possible we will see a repeat of that with Windows for Mac. Given the uber-geek loves nothing more than hardware level coding, its probable the Intel Mac will sell to this crowd. Particularly as the uber-geek’s second favorite thing to do with a computer is run multiple operating systems. It could easily become a badge among the geek community to have a computer running all three of the major desktop OSes. Of course, any geek worth his or her silicon, will have many more than that. Although I might add, it would be more likely that those elite geeks would probably have a hacked version of OS X running on a PC.
Will it sell more Macs?
Undoubtedly. Who to? How about:
- As mentioned, those who want to run the three main OSes just because they can;
- Me and many like me who from time to time need to run some things in Windows but at full speed;
- Mac Shops who previously ran AutoCAD or other Windows only apps on genuine PCs.
Will Win-Shops buy in?
Not likely because of zero support from Apple. But in a site with sufficient geek resources on-staff, Windows on Macs might start making inroads, just as Linux did five years ago in the server room.
Will Apple maintain compatibility?
Compatibility is not a word Apple is overly familiar with. Even one iPod to the next has compatibility issues. So don’t be surprised if next year’s Mac can’t run this years Windows for Mac - despite Apple executives claiming Apple would not deliberately prevent Windows from running on Macs. We’ve seen with the EFI support, that this also means Apple is not even going to try to make it one iota easier.
Will it affect sales of Virtual PC and other virtualization software?
It will to some extent, but many folks will still want Windows and OS X running simultaneously. If Microsoft can get an Intel Mac version of Virtual PC into our hands quickly, and one that is optimized to take full advantage of the CPU, dual booting may become irrelevant for many people. The same applies to the other virtualization developers.
Will Microsoft support it?
Now this is possibly the most interesting question of all. Windows on Mac has now happened. It could affect sales of Virtual PC, especially in the short term. Do Gates, Ballmer and co at Microsoft, in their benevolence, simply shrug their shoulders and say “Oh well, win some lose some.”? Hardly. Probably Microsoft will make it easy to put Windows on Macs. Maybe we’ll even see a service pack with drivers supporting Mac hardware. Microsoft isn’t one to let a sales opportunity slip. The door is open and many people are going to charge through it. I can see Microsoft quite happily standing on the other side, selling genuine “Windows for Mac”. It’s not like it’s going to be much work for them.
Will it hurt Apple in the long run?
No. It’s not going to lure Mac users back to Windows and in fact will lead to more people experiencing the Mac, especially the important ones. The geeks. The guys in the back room, the guys who five or so years ago, got Linux into the corporate server rooms of the world.
Windows on Macs is going to put Macs in the hands of geeks (as well as hacked versions of OS X on PCs), and when geeks switch, the rest of the world follows. That is what happened with Linux - and if Linux had the application support from commercial vendors such as Adobe and Microsoft, it would have already achieved significant desktop marketshare.
Apple also obviously doesn’t think Windows on Mac poses a threat, otherwise the Macs would have been built to reject Windows.
Apple planted the seed, but left it to the likes of blanka and narf to water and care for it. With the geek community nurturing it, this new Apple tree looks like bearing much fruit.
Many users will see references to an application called MacKeeper on various web sites and via pop-ups on their browser. Not only is it expensive for what it purports to do (freeware applications that do the same or more are readily available), it can sometimes install itself without the user realising it, and it can be very tricky to get rid of.
MacKeeper has been described by various sources as highly invasive malware*that can de-stablize your operating system, adding that it is unethically marketed, with a history of making false advertising claims, by a company called Zeobit, and a rip-off.
(Please note that references to the original developers, Zeobit, also now refer to Kromtech Alliance Corp, who acquired MacKeeper and PCKeeper from ZeoBit LLC in early 2013.)
Most positive reviews of it have been found to have been paid for by Zeobit (developers of MacKeeper) in the form of ‘free upgrades’ etc. One such opinion is:
For more about ‘astruturfing’ (writing phoney product reviews for money) see here:
and http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-24299742
Further opinion on it and how to uninstall MacKeeper malware can be read here:
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There are many forms of ‘Malware’ that can affect a computer system, of which ‘a virus’ is but one type, ‘trojans’ another. Using the strict definition of a computer virus, no viruses that can attack OS X have so far been detected 'in the wild', i.e. in anything other than laboratory conditions. The same is not true of other forms of malware, such as Trojans. Whilst it is a fairly safe bet that your Mac will NOT be infected by a virus, it may have other security-related problem, but more likely a technical problem unrelated to any malware threat.
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* The expression ‘malware’ is a general term used by computer professionals to mean a variety of forms of hostile, intrusive, or annoying software.