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Timothy Gerges - Apr 7, 2006 - 7:45 am

HI,

I hear the new craze if having windows Xp run on the new Intel based Macs. Really interesting stuff, and extremely useful, if you have an Intel based Mac.
I wonder if there is a way to run windows xp on my PowerPC G4.
If anybody can help me or direct me to somewhere where i can download it, it would be greatly appriciated.

Thank you

DeltaMac - Apr 7, 2006 - 8:09 am

Windows XP will run on the new Intel systems. (and runs great!)
Windows will not run on the PowerPC Systems, and you cannot make it run.

You CAN install and run some software that creates a virtual environment for Windows to run, thinking it's running on PC hardware. One of those is Virtual PC, from Microsoft. That software will run you $250, and you won't be able to use a lot of software, such as PC games, as the performance is not too great, even on the fastest Macs.

-Dale

Timothy Gerges - Apr 7, 2006 - 12:50 pm

Thanks for your help,
Just one last question,
Is it possible to run osX on a windows platform computer?

DeltaMac - Apr 7, 2006 - 5:26 pm

No,
there are some solutions that allow you to run very old versions of Mac OS on PCs, but not OS X.

Timothy Gerges - Apr 9, 2006 - 9:43 am

Thanks for your help,

Timothy