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Vista Runs On Macs

Mac owners have figured out how to install and boot a pre-release version of Windows Vista on their Intel-based machines, messages on the OSx86 Project's Web site claimed Sunday.

Unfortunately, to run Vista on an Intel-based iMac, the Mac OS X operating system has to be deleted, wrote a user identified only as "AirmanPika."

"When you get to the section where it asks where to actually install vista....well here's the main problem," wrote AirmanPika. "You delete all of them. Even OSX. Yes this isn't a dual boot solution (yet anyway) but it does allow vista to run."

Another poster, dubbed "alexoughton," said that he had managed to install Vista without removing OS X by deleting the EFI partition that Apple's Boot Camp application creates.

Both users relied on Boot Camp, the application Apple released last week that lets Intel-based Mac owners create a dual-boot system that runs either Mac OS X or Windows XP.

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