"It's really been an emotional roller coaster.
"I'm overwhelmed that a solution was found within the time limit," said Nederkoorn. Nederkoorn had a selfish reason for the contest: He wanted to downsize from two machines - a PowerPC-based Mac and a PC running Windows - that he was using at work to just one, an Intel MacBook Pro he'd ordered as soon as Apple debuted the new systems. In January, Colin Nederkoorn of Houston began taking donations for a prize to be awarded to the first developer who came up with a way to boot an Intel Mac into either Mac OS X or Windows XP. The Texas man who jumped-started the effort to get Windows XP to dual-boot on Intel-based Macs posted the winning solution on his site Thursday, and said the contest's cash prize of nearly $14,000 had been won by a pair of Californians.
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