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dick - Jun 27, 2006 - 1:58 am

Not that I will be able to buy an Intel machine of any variety, I have heard much of Windows being able to run on Åpple Intel machines.

Just an idle question which you are welcome to ignore if you are busy, but could you run Mac OS Intel on a windows Intel machine. (I should imaging some sort of market with people just bought the latter but like Apples beauty and ease-of-use. (BTW - just read an overview of Vista. Sounds there has been some 'borrowing going on.)

Cheers and keep it up. You have saved my hide many a time.

Dick Garner
2/47 John St
Maryborough
Queensland
Australia.

philippe99 - Jun 27, 2006 - 2:59 am

Hi and welcome back to macosx.com

No, you cannot instal MacOS Tiger on a Intel Windows machine, I mean, natively
I'm sure that some emulatord (software based) exist and will be able to emulate in a Virtual Machine inside the PC MacOsX

However, it will be a software-based emulation, so slower than a true one.

And for doing what ?
Gaming ? Forget it, a software emulation will never be able to run modern games

Home use (Word, ...) ? Well, you can have a second hand PPC iBook G4 for less than 500$: enough for home based application. And all Windows documents (Word, Excell, PowerPoint, graphic, ...) can be opened on Mac Osx natively or through Microsoft Office Mac suite (all ? not, Access databases cannot)

Avoiding viruses and other spywares ? No, because the native level will remain Windows: the actions of the emultor will always request a deep level Windows instruction, so viruses will be able to polluated the Machine

Finally, installing OS X on a Windows machine will not be helped by Apple because, due to the huge diversity of PC components, Apple cannot ensure that MacOSx will run in all possible configurations

As Apple does not provide support on Windows XP installed on Mac machines....

So, perhaps something like my configuration:

* Imac G5 PPC Tiger for working and for home needs
* Dell P4 W2000 for gaming

;-)

Regards
Philippe

dick - Jun 27, 2006 - 4:06 am

Thanks Philippe - as I said it was just an idle 'reverse of the coin enquiry (if Win can do Mac, can Mac do Win?), but you have supplied some powerful reasons why it would be A Bad Thing to try and run Mac OS on a wintel machine.

Many thanks

Dick

philippe99 - Jun 27, 2006 - 10:29 am

Happy to have answered you and thank you for using macosx.com

Regards
Philippe