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April 05, 2006

Yes, folks, it's official: Macintosh computers can now display blue screens of death. So how many similar photographs of frozen Macs do you think will be proudly uploaded to the internet over the next 24 hours?

UPDATE: And, of course, there's the obligatory YouTube parody video. Pretty funny, too.

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You do realize the BOS is from running windows on the Mac's hardware (dual booting it with Bootcamp)

Posted by: JohnO at April 6, 2006 08:38 AM

Yes, I do.

Posted by: Nick at April 6, 2006 09:06 AM

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