# Hello via BlackBook

**URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/hello-via-blackbook/14096
**Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic
**Created:** [July 3, 2006, 9:04am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/hello-via-blackbook/14096 "2006-07-03T09:04:27Z")
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### Author: ![JaysGreenLX](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jaysgreenlx/32/7321_2.png) [@JaysGreenLX](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JaysGreenLX)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2006, 11:15am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/hello-via-blackbook/14096/42 "2006-07-06T11:15:55Z")

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> [@BikerFry](#):
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> Pardon me for being out of the geek loop, but can you straight up install Windas on the new Intel based macs? I.E. just partition and load, no emulating or anything like that?
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> If so then I have now lost my hate for Apple. They have always had the best hardware. Weren’t they a year+ ahead with 64 bit processors, SATA, and PCIX? I just never used em because I don’t like making things difficult for myself. I’d be down with buying a Unix computer with cutting edge hardware that can run Winblows too. :tup:

Not sure of the logistics of it, but Apples will run Windows without an emulator. Its a straight up one or the other choice now. You can boot the computer up in either XP or OSX.

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