HOW TO: Convert a Mac into an x86

Posted by timothy on Wednesday June 8, 2005 @05:40AM from the apropos dept.

inventgeek writes "With the recent announcements Apple has made regarding its operating environment, Inventgeek.com has a mod that seems rather fitting. They have converted a Mac G3 to an Intel P4 System capable of running Windows or Linux. Full how to is available on there site for those brave enough to bask in what many say could be Apples greatest folly, and a blow to Linux." Update: 06/08 17:53 GMT by T : A few further Mac-OS-X-on-Intel notes, about the new Intel development kit from Apple: Readers jimboman78 and shooflot sent in, respectively, links to (mostly positive) comments on the front page of Accelerate Your Mac and a more skeptical but equally preliminary description at Think Secret.

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Ooh, how exciting ?? by HDlife · 2005-06-08 05:45 · Score: 0, Redundant

Basically he installed a small PC into a Mac G3 case. Perhaps someone thought that the Apple demons would somehow prevent it from "Windows or Linux". But there is not much to see here.
HOWTO: Put a P4 motherboard in a G3 case... by DuckofDeath87 · 2005-06-08 05:47 · Score: 1, Redundant

This does not really convert a G3 to run with a Pentium4. It just put the new P4 mother board in the G3 case. Though, if you like windows and Mac cases, this is for you.

Also, if the G3 was working, it could run linux before "converting" it.