I may be 15, but I'm a Mac Genius.
This thread needs to close. Now.
I may be 15, but I'm a Mac Genius.
Interesting but i find this more so.... well i am a novice mac user admittedly, being primarily a !windows! user, but i stumbled upon this post and must agree that i have also thought about this recently. anyway i had a little dig around and well the result (-pause-pause-pause-) very interesting (that is if you are talking about the powerpc processor in the older macs, if not SORRY!)
I hope the following brings up a few Q's....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_NT
"A main design goal of NT was hardware and software portability. Versions of NT were available for a variety of processor architectures, namely Intel IA-32, MIPS, Alpha, PowerPC, SPARC, Intel i860, and Intel i960."
please forgive an interested fellow if my reading skills have failed me.
Wait who says it's impossible to run XP on a Mac?
I've been running XP on an old emac for almost a year.
Here's some snaps if you don't believe me!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/21610623@N07/2235551830/in/photostream/
Cycle through all the photos if you don't believe me
Wait who says it's impossible to run XP on a Mac?
I've been running XP on an old emac for almost a year.
Here's some snaps if you don't believe me!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/21610623@N07/2235551830/in/photostream/
Cycle through all the photos if you don't believe me
I don't think there is dispute over whether Windows can run on PPC, proven by the wiki page of VirtualPC:I am about to attempt an install of Windows NT 4.0 on my g3, if successful i will upload a video (youtube) to prove it is a real install if not then my fight has been for nothing.
I know this is not XP but the conversation got derailed and people were doubting that Window in all its existances would not run on PPC cpu's, so i hope i can put this one to bed.
post back as soon as success occurs!!!!
I don't think there is dispute over whether Windows can run on PPC, proven by the wiki page of VirtualPC:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Virtual_PC
You misunderstand, i will be attempting this without the aid of emulation software. It will be an install from disc at boot, not via bootcamp etc.etc...The whole thread has only been about the doubt that windows can run on ppc chips NATIVELY, so the only next reasonable way to go forward is to install a windows o/s i.e. NT 4.0 using no emulation of any kind
So your Mac is a piece of crap then? Macs are PCs. PC stands for Personal Computer. Last time I checked, a Mac is a personal computer.
Perhaps you are unaware that in conventional parlance, "PC's" are considered to be the Windows-based variety of personal computers....
You misunderstand, i will be attempting this without the aid of emulation software. It will be an install from disc at boot, not via bootcamp etc.etc...The whole thread has only been about the doubt that windows can run on ppc chips NATIVELY, so the only next reasonable way to go forward is to install a windows o/s i.e. NT 4.0 using no emulation of any kind
Anticosx said:You misunderstand, i will be attempting this without the aid of emulation software. It will be an install from disc at boot, not via bootcamp etc.etc...The whole thread has only been about the doubt that windows can run on ppc chips NATIVELY, so the only next reasonable way to go forward is to install a windows o/s i.e. NT 4.0 using no emulation of any kind
Ok, lol, I see most of you took this seriously..neil321 said:That doesn't prove squat,windows XP cannot run natively on ppc processors,reason x86
Apple are the idiots for not adopting x86 sooner.
Ok, lol, I see most of you took this seriously..
Now, let me tell you a little story..
There was once a boy named Felix, who went to yahoo.com and did an image search for "windows xp desktop". He selected only large images to be displayed, and when he saw a snapshot of windows xp that looked normal enough, he dragged it onto the desktop of his 1GHz eMac running Tiger..
Next, he double clicked the freshly downloaded image, and it opened up in Preview.app. Next he went to View>Slideshow, and waited until the slideshow controls and the mouse faded away, before taking out a camera, and taking pictures of his eMac..
Then he just uploaded the pics to the net, and posted a link on a forum..
THE END
Hey guys is there anyway I can get my Nintendo 64 to "think" it's an XBox 360 so I can play Halo 3? Thanks.
No luck as yet but well READ THE FOLLOWING:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4816520.stm
Hackers get Mac running Windows
Not even Apple's own technical staff thought the feat was possible
Hackers have managed to get Microsoft's Windows XP operating system running on an Apple Mac computer. The success ends a competition started to see if the feat was even possible when Apple unveiled computers that used Intel chips.
The pair who managed the feat won $13,854 (£7,895) in prize money for their trouble.
Interesting no???
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