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The winner of the big $13,000 prize for getting WindowsXP and MacOSX to co-exist on Intel Macs has posted his solution. Come and get it!

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According to the testers, the 17″ iMac and the MacBook Pro were successfully booted into Windows XP, however, the details on how this was achieved will not be released until a fix is found for the 20″ iMac, and the Mac mini.

w00t! I can’t wait til I can acutally afford one. Well, and I can’t wait till the required steps to boot mac into xp is released.

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I am a student at the University of Oklahoma, and in the spring semester of 2005 I purchased a custom built laptop computer from a small company in College Station, Texas known as HybridGear. This computer cost me nearly $4000.00, which is actually a much better price than I would have had to pay for the same computer from a name brand company.

I received my computer promptly and although I had some initial troubles with installing the operating system, they were very helpful and I soon had my computer up and running. I did not have any more problems with my computer until January of this year, when just before the start of the spring semester, it stopped booting. The power would come on and it would not do anything.

Since it was still under warranty, I sent it in to them to be repaired. There warranty policy states that they have a maximum of a 72 hour turn around time, not including shipping. If they do not have it fixed in this time frame, they are supposed to send a temporary replacement until yours can be returned.

Then for the next 5 weeks they just kept making excuses as to why my computer had not been fixed and returned to me. Around the 3rd of those weeks, I asked for a replacement to use for my classes, and they refused to send me one. Then, after the 5th week, they just stopped answering the phone, their email server says that the mailboxes they have listed on their website do not exist, and no one returns my calls when I leave them a message.

Now, it has been 8 weeks since I sent my laptop in and they no longer have any sort of message service. I had someone I know who lives nearby go and check out their building, and the door is locked with a sign on it that says to contact them at 1-888-577-GEAR, which is the number that they are not answering.

When I purchased my laptop, these guys were in good standing with the BBB and were very helpful with the initial problems that I had. But since then they have lost their membership with the BBB and still have not returned any of the messages I’ve left in the last 3 weeks or returned my computer. They also have moved locations from College Station to Bryan, which is nearby. Here is their website.