A couple of amateur programmers scooped nearly $14,000 after winning a competition to crack-a-Mac and install Microsoft's Windows XP on Apple's flagship product.
The cheeky devils are also circulating software so that others can install XP on their Macs!
The competition was incepted following Apple releasing Macintoshes using Intel Chips - similar to those used in standard PCs - rather than the traditional RISC-based PowerPC processors.
The rules of the competition stated that to win, entrants must get both Windows XP and Apple's OSX running on the same machine and the operating systems must not conflict with each other.
Apple techies doubted the prospects of this being possible due to the way the rival operating systems utilise technology to get the OSs to load.
The 'lucky' programmers managed to overcome this by modifying a version of XP so that it used different boot files.
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