Hey, I only have a 500mhz ibook, and virtual pc is just totally gay on it, I was wondering if there's a way of getting rid of MacOSX all together and put win2k or something on it?

No. Microsoft doesn't have a version of Windows for the PPC platform.

nope. native windows is only 4 computers

Well, you can put Linux on it if you want (there are PPC versions available, the best IMHO is Yellow Dog).

HUH????

na Ubuntu

Ubuntu Rocks!

I doubt Virtual PC has a sexual preference.

Yeah some people really have a hard time understanding that. Together with the fact that Mac OS X won't run on the x86 platform and Windows not on the PPC platform.

Well, there WERE versions of Windows that ran on PPC (NT 3.51, 4, and some betas of 2000), and there were betas of OS X (then known as Rhapsody) that ran on x86, and Darwin still does.

Why exactly would you want to get rid of OS X just to go and put 2k on it. :sick:

None which are on the market so its not even worth mentioning.

Well there is... Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0 and Server. OEM Disk (Only for distribution with "new" servers/pc's)

"Disc contains code to run on Windows NT compatible x86, Pentium, Pentium PRO, MIPS R4x00, Alpha and PowerPC systems".
"Disc contains code to run on Windows NT compatible 486, Pentium, MIPS R4x00, Alpha, PowerPC, and Pentium PRO".

I prefer Gentoo, thank you very much.

But yah...OS X runs on PPC, and Windows on x86 instruction sets. Unfortunately you'll have to run Windows on an emulator (i.e., Virtual PC) if you want it to run.

I realize that (although you can download Darwin from Apple if you want). My point was there is reason for a newbie to wonder why you can't since these did exist at one time.

NT will not run on a Macintosh though, it was only for the following PowerPC systems:

Austin PowerPlay, Bull ESTRELLA, Canon PPC 604, FirePower Powerized ES series , IBM Personal Computer Power Series, IBM RISC System/6000™, IBM ThinkPad Power Series, Motorola® PowerStack RISC PC series, Tatung TPC-5740, Zenith Data Systems Z-POWER series.

My thoughts exactly.

I wondered that myself; why pay more to get a Macintosh only to run Windows on it? Just get a cheap PC and be done with it.

It seems like microsoft should make a version of Windows for the Mac.... I guess the developement costs would be more than they would make though... Probably would have to change a lot of code to work on the PPC archtecture.

They are already considered a big bad monopoly, if they ported Windows to the Macintosh it would just make the government(s) come down even harder on them and of course Apple wouldn't be thrilled about it either.

Most people buy macs for OSX anyways.

I would almost say beef up the RAM in the iBook to at least 512MB or more, or max it out, and buy a copy of OS X 10.4 "Tiger" and then get some apps that replace the ones on Windows you would want to run, except the actual exclusives (some of them being from MS like Visual Studio, etc) then see if you want to put Windows on that iBook. If not, please send the iBook to me.

Exactly.

Except this person apparantly

you could use NT4 for PowerPC dunno if it will work

Nope, it won't. The PowerPC versions of Windows were not made for Macs, but for some other brands of PowerPC computers.

Wish they did have a version of mac os x for x86.

You and me both. Shame it wont happen but we can still dream and wish.