How to: Video walk through to install Windows XP on an Intel Mac
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This is a REPOSTING of the original article – Which ran on March 21, 2006
UPDATE: A higher quality version has been posted.
After instructions were posted on how to install Windows XP on an Intel Mac loads of questions were asked about the finer parts of the process. So we decided to to a quick walkthrough video of the entire installation process from start to finish to assist our readers.
The video is using the method on onmac.net (which we were a title donator), as well as mirrored here. Developments are always happening by the minute so bookmark http://features.uneasysilence.com/mactel/ to stay up to the minute about new changes and procedures regarding WindowsXP on an Macintosh.
The video is at iPod resolution to cope with the bandwidth, when the demand lessens I will post a higher resolution video.
Feed for the video (The best way to get first dibs at the high resolution video) Feed [iTunes] or get the video via Direct Download
Got some Darth Vader going on there,i heard you breath a lot,lol.
Yea, it was a late night…. Plus shitty headset :-P
Sweet. THis is encouraging me to get the new imac. I want it badly. :) You guys are amasing!
Congratulations on the excellent Step by Step video tutorial. Now even my eleven year old can do it.
Hello, i have a question, wil it be able to play games on a intel iMac….
like Half life (Cs)….and games like that..???
@scott
not yet :(
[...] Seguro que habrán leido al respecto del hack para instalar Windows XP en una Intel Mac. La gente de UNEASYsilence realizo un video tutorial siguiendo todos lo pasos y lo publicaron. Imperdible. [...]
Really good video — step by step professional instruction, with lots of appropriate contextual comments, warnings, and what to expect at each turn. If whomever did this video doesn’t do this as part of their normal job, they should :)
Matt,
I don’t do that for my day job. Thank you for the VERY much for the very positive comments!
Just love helping people.
Will Windows be as fast as a “normal” Windows-Computer?
This is actually the fastest PC I have ever used… Just need to work on the driver issues.
can i use my xp sp2 cd from a dead hp computer.
every time I copy the files to the src file the src file turns out to be 855 mb.
hi,
It is amazing.. and u make it sound pretty easy. I have not tried it yet … have a couple of quesires :
1. I have an older version of Xp without SP2… can i esu it
2. I have the IMAC which does not have intelmac.. wud it work or an intelmac processor is needed….
Thank you very much.
Raj
Is use of XP SP2 mandatory or will a regular XP-Pro work? Anyone tried it?
How do you play the video?
Ryan, you can play the video by pressing the STOP BEING A MORON button. And don’t you ask where is that button.
Audio is VERY choppy. Can you clean it up a bit?
Did you guys see you’re featured on Lifehacker now!? :D
that’s awesome. we’ve been fortunate enough to grace the pages on lifehacker a few times in the past.
Hello everyone,
What is the range of performance quality for windows into Intel Mac processor?
Regards,
[...] Si se que están algo cansados de tanto XP en Mac y estoy seguro que en 2 semanas nadie se acordara al respecto, pero para el que lo quiere probar y no entiende muy bien los pasos de onmac.net, salio un video tutorial de como instalar Windows XP en la mac, el mismo entra en detalles especÃÂÂficos de como crear el cd booteable de XP y como reemplazar el firmware EFI para que tu Mac ahora botee a una partición de XP. Cabe destacar que para instalar XP en tu Mac es necesario reparticionar el disco de tu Mac y esto eliminara toda la data que tengas actualmente en tu Mac. Publicado por Antonio Bajo Cibercultura, Hacks, DIY, Apple [...]
El primero poste en espanol que yo miro en uneasysilence.
langdon the audio is choppy if you’re streaming the video directly. save it to your desktop then watch.
Why would you put XP on an Intel Mac? OS X has a Unix type foundation and a better GUI. I’ve run XP, Win 98, Mac OS 8, OS 9, OS X, umpteen different distros of Linux (Red Hat, Suse, Mandrake,Ubuntu,Gentoo,Yellow Dog, and others), and OS X isthe best GUI out there. It takes a little rethinking if you come from Windows, but take the time (not much) to learn to use OS X and you’ll agree. It networks almost automatically, and security is simple, not to mention viruses and such (almost nonexistant). If you are going to pay for a Mac use a Mac.
Do you think Vista’ll be able to be dual-booted onto a Mac too? I would hope so, then I could justify getting one.
The problem is, some programs are only available in Windows versions. As much as I’d like to avoid using Windows, as a Computer Science student, I am forced to in order to run progams like PCSpim, MS Visual Studio (which I am forced to test my programs on), and so on.
I currently have a PowerBook from last May and am planning on buying a new iMac in the next couple months. I have the same question some others asked: What if my official Windows installation cd is just XP Pro, before SP2 came out? Can I not just dl and install SP2 after installation?
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Because it’s possible. I’ve got a new saying instead of the old”build it and they will come”… “build it and someone will mod it”. :)
Drool at Apple.com for hours -> beg for hours -> iPod Shuffle.
I wonder if the same process will work with a macbook :) but then again, those things look huge! I saw one at the Apple store a few days ago and it definetly looks like a desktop replacement.
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You know, I just noticed the Mac Mini there, hehe. :D A little slow, aren’t I?
can be done on a G5???
please help me.
No, you need an Intel Machine
Just in case noone as seen it yet… Apple is officially supporting dual booting (WITH VIDEO DRIVERS!) http://www.apple.com/macosx/bootcamp/
Very cool :)
What’s the point of this now? Get Apple Boot Camp and breeze through the 3 Apple-designed steps. No video required.
Right
Yes, this video came a little bit late…
It actually came out in March… But we were mentioned in the TIMES today.
[...] Apple hat gestern die komplette IT-Welt mir ihrem Boot-Camp überrascht, damit lässt sich Windows Xp SP 2 auf einem Intel-Mac installieren (mehr dazu gibt es hier). Allerdings soll die Installation für den ungeübten Nutzer kompliziert sein. Die Blogger von UNEASYsilence haben deswegen ein Videotutorial erstellt, das die notwendigen Schritte sowohl auf dem Mac als auch unter Windows erläutert. Das Video steht in einer Low-Quality (hier) als auch in High-Quality (64 MB, hier) zum Download bereit. [...]
[...] UPDATE3: There is now a video walk through [...]
we have installed parallels on our imac
we then installed XP.
It works great…however the screen on our mac randomly flickers.
We have installed the Parallels tools.
But it seems like its a video driver issue.
Do you have any suggestions?
Kind regards
Gareth
The Mac screen or the parallels window?