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Upgrade Your G4 Cube to a Pentium M Processor

Posted by timothy on Sunday June 12, 2005 @08:03PM from the if-you-so-desire dept.

reklusband writes "This report tells of a company that has released a processor upgrade for G4 cubes; this upgrade is in the form of a Pentium M. The cube becomes Windows + Linux, x86-blah compatible."

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Re:why bother? by hyeh · 2005-06-12 21:33 · Score: 3, Informative

x86 Macs will not use OpenFirmware.
Re:why bother? by Wdomburg · 2005-06-12 22:48 · Score: 3, Informative

I'm not the original poster, but how about Apple as a source?
Hoax by tji · 2005-06-13 03:28 · Score: 5, Informative

This is a hoax.. and not even a very good one. They didn't even include photoshopped pictures of the CPU board with the Pentium-M.

Basically, they are claiming to make a CPU board that plugs into the Cube's main board. With a few BIOS tweaks they can run x86 software.

This is, of course, bullshit. It will take much more than plugging a board in, and some BIOS mods, to get a Mac/PowerPC system to be able to use an x86 processor.