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Dual booting Mac OS X on iPad... April Fool's!

by Sang Tang (Apr 1st, 2010)

Some can't wait to get their hands on the device, while others could care less. The device, the Apple iPad, is set to launch on Saturday, April 3, 2010. Earlier today, TUAW unearthed a hidden feature on the iPad (via an envelope slipped under the door of our headquarters in Roswell, NM) that may ...

Much love for Mike Bombich -- Bootpicker 1.3 makes Mac/XP choice easier

by Michael Rose (Jul 31st, 2007)

Let us count the ways that the Mac sysadmin community hearts Mike B: we relish his reliable and full-featured Carbon Copy Cloner, we depend absolutely upon his fast and simple NetRestore, we puzzle through his instructions for deploying dual-boot machines and for working with Active Directory. Most ...

Not all Macs meet Vista requirements

by Dave Caolo (May 19th, 2006)

Julio Ojeda-Zapata of the Pioneer Press points out the system requirements for Microsoft's latest piece of vaporware soon-to-be-released update to Windows, Vista. According to Microsoft, Vista may run on machines that don't meet their "Premium Ready PC" requirements (which referees to machines that ...

TUAW Poll results: Will you dual-boot your Mac?

by Dave Caolo (Apr 6th, 2006)

Many of our informal polls produce fairly even results. Not so with this one. Of the 5,228 of you who responded to the question, "Will you dual-boot your Mac," a full 50% (2,593) of you said, "absolutely." Twenty three percent of you stated that you have no need to do this and ...

Ask TUAW: What will you do with Windows on your Mac?

by David Chartier (Mar 20th, 2006)

We've seen a video of Windows on an iMac in action, and this weekend Dave Caolo posted the results from our poll that found the greater majority of TUAW readers were happy, at least to some degree, that Windows XP can run on a Mac. Now we want to ask: what are you going to do with it? Are you ...

XP on a MacBook Pro

by Dave Caolo (Mar 19th, 2006)

You had to know that XP on a MacBook Pro would quickly follow the same on an iMac. Nirlog has a nice, step-by-step how to, including links to the files you'll need to get the job done. Stop worrying about VirtualPC and enjoy the dual-boot goodness. [Via Make] ...