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Windows Vista Beta Running on a PPC Mac
goombah99 writes "Macosxhints is giving a set of tips that let any Mac user boot Windows Vista on a Mac. In this case, it's not a native Intel boot but rather VirtualPC running on a PPC G5 Mac. Thus Vista and Mac OS X can run concurrently. There are no extravagant hacks needed, just a matter of finding the right set of configurations to let VirtualPC present the proper disk images for mounting and BIOS settings to the installer. This bodes well for native installs onto the Intel Mac." Actually, there have been successful (though not glitch-free) installs of beta versions of Vista on Intel Macs for a few months now. Here's a report from Hans Verbeeck (Developer Evangelist for Microsoft EMEA) on putting Vista Beta 2 on a MacBook Pro.
As someone who is a longtime Windows user and now MAC OS X user out of necessity (I'm an IT Director at a sports publishing company and we are ALL MAC OS X), I wonder why any Mac user in their right mind would buy a Mac only to install Windows on it.
After leaving Windows completely and happily I'm mystified. Especially considering that MAC equipment is way overpriced just to run windows on it.
Now as a new MAC OS X user who is thoroughly in love with it (compared to Windows but still MORE in love with Linux) if MAC OS made it's way to regular commodity PC boxes then I would gladly chuck all of our Mac boxes and iBooks and buy PC boxes.
If I were MS this is what I would be REALLY scared of, MAC OS X on a PC box. I would have no reason to use MS.
Admittedly Apple must make a ton of money their boxes for as overpriced as they are.
Yes, but you guys are missing the most amazing aspect of this... this is an x86 emulator sold by Microsoft for PPC! And it's emulating a Microsoft x86 operating system on PPC! Dude, sweet!