Windows Vista Beta Running on a PPC Mac

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday June 12, 2006 @06:54AM from the sideways-approaches dept.

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.

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Why? by Donniedarkness · 2006-06-12 06:59 · Score: -1, Troll

Other than the "it's cool, look what I can do!" factor, why would anyone do this? PPC Macs are much more expensive than Intel Macs, so why would you even WANT this on a PPC Mac? Hell, I'd be proud if my PPC Mac *couldn't* run Windows =)

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1. Re:Why? by GotenXiao · 2006-06-12 07:24 · Score: 0, Troll
  
  Maybe because the PPC arch is better than x86 by a long shot.
  
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Re:Wow... by Anonymous Coward · 2006-06-12 07:01 · Score: -1, Troll

lol fuck of you lunix-luser get a live and learn to spel.