Apple Powerbooks, iMacs upto 400 squid off!

snappieT

Don't know if this has been posted yet. Apologies if it has.

O2 Experience (on Grafton St. at least) are offering:

• 400 off Powerbooks
• 300 off iMacs

That puts a 12" Powerbook at 1119, which isn't half bad!

This is while stocks last, I'm assuming they want to clear off old stock for the new (crap) Intel based ones.

machalla

What exactly is crap about the new ones?

Wertz

Ah the dawn of hardwired digital rights management...

embraer170

Any sign of this at other O2 stores?

eth0_

they're just matching the price that apple are charging on their online stores!

embraer170

A 12" Powerbook on Apple's online store is Eur 1,499.19.

damnyanks

Bit off topic but can you install Windows on Intel based Apples ?

Would like to get a Mac but I do some .Net development and would like to have that option available to me.

palance

There are a couple of competitions going online as to who will be the first to "crack" the intel based mac and install windows on it. Nobodys done it yet as far as I know, and apple certinely wouldn't approve.

Random

embraer170 wrote:

Any sign of this at other O2 stores?

It's in all the O2 Experience stores. (Blanch SC, Henry St & Grafton St being the ones that spring to mind)


And those new MacBooks don't look half bad. The "Intel" part can't be all that bad. Faster, smaller laptops? Who can complain ?

sturgo

damnyanks wrote:

Bit off topic but can you install Windows on Intel based Apples ?

Would like to get a Mac but I do some .Net development and would like to have that option available to me.

i don't think so. are you mad though? that's like putting Micra engine into a BMW.

eth0_

You could always run virtual PC on them. If you have a decent amount of RAM it'll be fine.

Random

You can do most things short of play the latest games.

forbairt

palance wrote:

There are a couple of competitions going online as to who will be the first to "crack" the intel based mac and install windows on it. Nobodys done it yet as far as I know, and apple certinely wouldn't approve.

They've gotten windows running on them .. I think what they haven't done is enabled a dual boot system but I could be wrong ...

halenger

error9 wrote:

They've gotten windows running on them .. I think what they haven't done is enabled a dual boot system but I could be wrong ...

They haven't yet. As has been said there are competitions to get it done. The problem being that Apple use EFI instead of BIOS and Windows doesn't support EFI - though Vista might, possibly.

Also, Apple don't care. They've said as much. You can do what you want with it. I wouldn't be installing windows on my Powerbook (were it an option). I haven't even remotely considered putting Linux on it even. I've enough other machines for Windows/Linux.

forbairt

halenger wrote:

They haven't yet. As has been said there are competitions to get it done. The problem being that Apple use EFI instead of BIOS and Windows doesn't support EFI - though Vista might, possibly.

I stand corrected ...

I checked for the article I had read before ...

http://http://neosmart.net/blog/dual-booting-windows-xp-on-a-macbook/

and he says theoretically dammit

snappieT

Apple make 90% of their profit on hardware sales, not software. They'd prefer for you to buy their hardware, and install whatever you like on it, rather than you buying a PC dedicated for being a Windows box.
The only issue might be installing Apple software on a PC, but I can't see this happening tbh.

oxygen_old

Is there any money off the i-books?

snappieT

oxygen wrote:

Is there any money off the i-books?

I'm afraid not.

Baud

eth0_ wrote:

You could always run virtual PC on them. If you have a decent amount of RAM it'll be fine.

No at the moment you can't. Microsoft don't have a version of virtual PC, and it won't run through rosetta (even if it did, that would be horrible).

L.