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Will The MacPro (Desktop) with Xeon Intel Run Windows?
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<blockquote data-quote="baggss" data-source="post: 325577" data-attributes="member: 6762"><p>The issues with dual booting and the use of BootCamp have nothing to do with Xeon, or any Intel processor (it's just a chip, the same as Dell and everyone else use). The real issue, and hence the requirement for BootCamp, is the fact that the Apple motherboards don't have a BIOS, which both XP and Vista (IIRC) require to load. </p><p></p><p>Apple instead opted to go with Intel new Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) model, which does not have a BIOS per-se (at least not one that Windows will see). Supposedly some versions of Vista will work natively with the EFI, but I have not heard or seen any concrete proof of this yet.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="baggss, post: 325577, member: 6762"] The issues with dual booting and the use of BootCamp have nothing to do with Xeon, or any Intel processor (it's just a chip, the same as Dell and everyone else use). The real issue, and hence the requirement for BootCamp, is the fact that the Apple motherboards don't have a BIOS, which both XP and Vista (IIRC) require to load. Apple instead opted to go with Intel new Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) model, which does not have a BIOS per-se (at least not one that Windows will see). Supposedly some versions of Vista will work natively with the EFI, but I have not heard or seen any concrete proof of this yet. [/QUOTE]
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