blue&whiteman said:
it would be like trying to play a PS2 game in an Xbox for example..
If you're being really canny, compare a GameCube (PowerPC G3 variant) to an Xbox (Intel x86) for better comparison
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Original poster:
Don't be put off by that fact. There are two reasons why Mac OS X will not run on your PC:
1) Because of the aforementioned reason that they are completely different processor types with different instructions. PC code is like Chinese (i.e. a completely different language) to Macs and vice-versa.
2) Because Apple doesn't want you to. Although they would gain sales of Mac OS X, it would then destroy the Mac hardware market. So it's a no-go. Solution? Buy a Mac, you won't regret it
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So, although, yes, Macs are completely different to PCs, the software that is made for them allows them to do common things. Therefore Macs are just as compatible. For instance, you can still read/burn CDs, network with PCs, open Word and Excel files, use JPEGS, surf the net, etc.! So, to us computer users, the processor type is unimportant, other than that it doesn't allow us to run Mac OS on Intel, or Windows on Macs (unless you get Microsoft's Virtual PC emulator).
