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Re:Windows 8 to support ARM, System on a chip, architectures by redthrowaway on Wednesday January 05, 2011 @06:21PM (#2073020)
Why? Putting Android on the iPhone I get, but I don't see too many hackers out there wanting to flip off Apple by installing Windows, of all things.

To put it another way, how many macbook pros are running Win7 solo, aka w/o bootcamp or VMware?

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Re:Windows 8 to support ARM, System on a chip, architectures by scdlbx on Wednesday January 05, 2011 @06:38PM (#2073075)
Why? For the sole purpose of getting Win8 running on an iPad.
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Re:Windows 8 to support ARM, System on a chip, architectures by redthrowaway on Wednesday January 05, 2011 @06:42PM (#2073094)
Fair enough.
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Re:Windows 8 to support ARM, System on a chip, architectures by Hacktivist on Wednesday January 05, 2011 @10:36PM (#2073810)
When the Intel Macs were initial released there was a contest to install Windows XP on it natively (before bootcamp was even announced.) Enough people donated to the prize pool that the winner walked away with 14,000 dollars.
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Re:Windows 8 to support ARM, System on a chip, architectures by redthrowaway on Thursday January 06, 2011 @03:04AM (#2074559)
I hadn't heard that. Thanks for the anecdote.
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Re:Windows 8 to support ARM, System on a chip, architectures by te_chris on Wednesday January 05, 2011 @07:23PM (#2073224)
Flip off apple? Really? Apple sell them a device, they own it and do what they like with it. I don't think achieving something non-trivial like getting windows 8 running on an ipad is flipping off apple.
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Re:Windows 8 to support ARM, System on a chip, architectures by redthrowaway on Wednesday January 05, 2011 @08:38PM (#2073478)
I think it's more thumbing their noses at Apple's propensity to lock down their devices. There's no challenge putting windows on an unlocked device, but putting apple's traditional competitor's os on a product that apple's best and brightest had supposedly locked down must carry some kind of thrill.
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