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Build Your Own PowerPC?

Posted by Cliff on from the why-not? dept.

amokk asks: "Let's assume for a second that somebody would want to take the time and effort to build a Personal Computer but base it on a PowerPC architecture. Besides saying 'Buy a Mac' (I already have one) or 'Buy an IBM server', is there any way of acquirng the individual parts and slapping them together? Why you would want to do this isn't up for debate. Rather, this is one of those 'wouldn't it be neat if...' type of experiments."

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  1. The other part of the question... by Dark+Paladin · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Is "do I want this to be Mac compatible, or Linux/someotherOS compatible".

    The latter answer is the easier one - the former is harder, since you would have to find "official" Apple parts to make sure the OS talked nice to all the pieces.

    Either way, the idea is an interesting one.

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    52 Weeks, 52 Religions with John Hummel
  2. compatible or not... good point! by Sleepy · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The author should ask to ammend the question to include (or not) compatability with Mac PPC as a goal.

    Can you buy Motorola motherboards and pop in a CPU? Sure.

    That's it??

    It would be more interesting to consider the "platform" as part of the question. Some would be exclusively interested in compliant hardware that runs MacOS. Others would just want something that runs Linux.