Bounty For Booting XP on the Intel iMac

An anonymous reader writes "The race is on. You can try to get the bounty for booting Windows XP on iMac. At this moment there is $2773 waiting for the winner. However several people have brickified their iMacs when playing with EFI." I imagine those tech support calls are hysterical ;)

Charity Suggestion:

[TripMaster Monkey]

From TFA:

If it is determined impossible to boot Windows on the Mac by March 23, 2006, all donations will be donated to a charitable cause (please send suggestions to [e-mail]).

Here's a suggestion for a charity...how about a charity for all the poor saps who've hosed their iMacs trying this stunt? ^_^

I'm sorry

[Anonymous Coward]

Who would want to boot Windows XP normally?

Re:I'm sorry

[FidelCatsro]

I don't know sounded fun so I tried it .
But a little boot on the iMac's stand ,then proceeded to use it to kick a Windows XP CD around the room.
Unfortunately due to a technicality , I can't claim the prize money.
I assume though I am the first person to boot windows with an iMac

Bricks are useful too

[FullMetalAlchemist]

[...]However several people have brickified their iMacs when playing with EFI.

Aha, but don't worry, just ask these nice people [netbsd.org] to add bricks to their existing set of architectures [netbsd.org] ;-)

Re:Brickified?

[FidelCatsro]

It's a cromulent Neologism

Re:Brickified?

[minginqunt]

Enbrickened.

Fracked.

Made to exhibit a Brickish form.

Relegated to brickhood.

Elevated to the Platonic ideal of "Brick".

Invited to join the elite group of formerly functioning Von Neumann machines now inculcated in the eternal, static realm of Brick. (FFVNMNIRSRB: pron. Fuff-van-man-IRS-Rub)

DEAD BRICKED.

Seriously, kids. Do try this at home. It is big, it is clever. And it will give us a laugh. Let's see you try and do that with your $3000 Alienware rig.

Muhahahahaha.

I suggest the Free Software Foundation

[ettlz]

in a twist of irony. Or the EFF.

Re:Brickified?

[TheRealMindChild]

Not to be too picky, but the correct word, I believe, is "bricked". Although whether there's an actual dictionary definiton of the word in this context I do not know.

This is a new low for a grammar nazi... trying to correct a word that isn't even a word. Brilliant.

Re:Brickified?

[i.r.id10t]

That Mac isn't dead... its pining for the fjords..

OH NO, The slashdotters cometh.

[colin_n]

I just got a message from a friend of mine saying I have been /.ed . Now my life is complete

Tech support brickfied call

[digitaldc]

However several people have brickified their iMacs when playing with EFI. I imagine those tech support calls...

UserX: Hi, is this Apple tech support?

Tech Support Operator 213453098: Yes, how can I help you?

UserX: Well, I was trying to win a contest by booting Windows XP on my iMac and then totally brickified it.

Tech Support Operator 213453098: Oh that's too bad, can you please start from the beginning?

UserX: Okay, I had XP copied to a disc, I put it in the iMac and fiddled with the EFI a bit to boot XP and all of a sudden I had a screen with a bunch of letters and numbers on it. I tried to hardboot it and get back OSX, but it failed...so I brickified it.

Tech Support Operator 213453098: So you corrupted your iMac to the point will it will not boot at all?

UserX: No, I got so mad I just threw a brick at it - now it's just a pile of sparking wires and smoking plastic.

Tech Support Operator 213453098: Please hold, let me transfer you to our anger management department. You estimated wait time is... thirty-five .... minutes. Have a great day, sir.

Bill Gates for one!

[cyberbian]

I'm sure that ole Bill and Steve would like to see it boot normally, AT LEAST ONCE since its been coded.

Re:How to report a brickified iMac to Apple

[Richard_at_work]

Yes, lets advocate fraud. Good one.

Bounty & booty

[Conanymous Award]

I actually first thought the topic was "Get booty for bounting XP..." Now there's a challenge for nerds!

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Re:Brickified?

[vjzuylen]

Then wouldn't it be "to embricken"?

Re:UNBRICK your Intel iMac

[Anonymous Coward]

Note that this is all conjecture

This is Slashdot, we understand that statement's pretty much a given...

Re:Brickified?

[cbiltcliffe]

This is a new low for a grammar nazi... trying to correct a word that isn't even a word. Brilliant.

No, but if it wasn't for these stupid grammar-challenged /. morons, it would be a real word, and people would know how to use it, dammit!!!

Pirates want in on this

[digitaldc]

A bounty for booty ye say?

ARRRRRRRRRRR!

Re:Brickified?

[mjpaci]

embricken

It could be one of those detached (or whatever it's called) German verbs...

Wann hast du deine iMac emgebricken?

Die iMac verbindung bricken em.

Excellent

[joeytsai]

This is a very good idea. Clearly, there are not enough machines that run Windows XP right now; any effort to increase its use is certainly for the best.

Re:I suggest the Free Software Foundation

[skribble]

Damn dude, that bullet just went off in your head!

Apple didn't remove anything, or do anything sinister as you suggest. Apple used the latest BIOS technology available, rather then the dinosaur archaic BIOS's used in Win/Tel computers today. Why not bitch about the fact that they have no 8" floppy drive either so now you can't even play you vintage TRS80 games on it.... I'm mean HOW DARE APPLE... not letting you run you TRS 80 Applications.

Re:Tech support brickfied call

[Golias]

Wow, did you blow a shot at the "oblig." Airplane reference there!

"Well, let's see... First the earth cooled. AND THEN THE DINOSAURS CAME. But they got too big and fat, so they all died and they turned into oil. And then the Arabs came and they bought Mercedes Benzes. And Prince Charles started wearing all of Lady Di's clothes. I couldn't believe it... "

I don't want to live in a world where that's considered too obscure.

Cars aren't computers.

[argent]

If cars were enough like computers to make that kind of analogy meaningful, you'd be able to buy a car at Walmart for about fifty bucks, it'd go Mach 3 at ground level and be capable of reaching any point in sublunar space on a cupful of gas. And every few days it would just stop working for no reason, sometimes to the accompaniment of gouts of livid flames from the engine compartment, and occasionally fall apart and need to be rebuilt from scratch... and people would consider that normal.

But since they're not, you get zero points and have to leave the island.

Re:I suggest the Free Software Foundation

[yerfatma]

The rest of the world called. I tried to forward them to you, but this damn rotary phone, y'know?

Re:I'm sorry

[Jamil Karim]

Just what we needed... Fidel Castro giving the boot, instead of getting it...

Tech Support Call

[mkiwi]

This is a really great story. Here is my example Apple tech support call:

Apple: Hello, Apple Tech Support this is iMac, how can I help you?
Nerd: My new iMac Core Duo won't boot up.
Apple: Ok, could I get your name and telephone number?
Nerd: ...Ok (gives name and telephone number)
Apple: Hmmm....
Nerd: What?
Apple: Have you called about problems with this computer before?
Nerd: Yes. It's been very buggy.
Apple: I'm showing 10 other tech support calls and 10 replacement iMac's sent to you.
Nerd: Yeah, like I said they are really buggy machines.
Apple: You know what? Do I look stupid? DO YOU THINK WE WEREN'T TOLD THIS WOULD HAPPEN?
Nerd: Well I just....
Apple: (interrupts) Stop messing with the EFI!!!
Nerd: But I WANT to boot Windows!! How else am I supposed to do it?
Apple: I think we need to start seeing other people.
Nerd: What... WHY?
Apple: I need some space, and I feel like you can never be honest with me.
Nerd: I'm honest with you most of the time....
Apple: It's over guy, get a new girlfrield. Maybe you can go back to Dell, I hear she's available.
Nerd: But iMac you are so sexxxy!! You're breaking my heart!
Apple: No, you are literally breaking mine. My motherboard > you. (click)
(Nerd goes into corner, cries, and calls Dell.)
Dell: Hello you have reached Dell Tech Support.
Nerd: My iMac just dumped me, I need a friend....

Re:Brickified?

[Gargish Dragon]

Us germans love to mess with the original English words, so I'd conjugate this verb like zwicken:

to brick -> bricken
he bricked his iMac -> er brickte seinen iMac
I have bricked my iMac -> ich habe meinen iMac gebrickt
the iMac is bricked -> der iMac ist gebrickt

Yes, I love it and I'll use it, as others apparently already do:

http://www.google.de/search?q=gebrickt [google.de]