Is it possible to buy an Apple Powerbook and load windows on it?
I know this is not the right place to ask such a question, but i am
sure someone among u geniuses would know the answer to that.
I am going for the powerbook just for its looks...but i dont want osX
or tiger or nething ...still want to use Windows...or may be Fedora..or
something else...
Any suggestions...
Oliver Wong - 11 Nov 2005 21:33 GMT
> Is it possible to buy an Apple Powerbook and load windows on it?
>
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> or tiger or nething ...still want to use Windows...or may be Fedora..or
> something else...
Not easily.
Your best bet is probably to run Linux and possibly WINE.
If you REALLY want to run Windows, you could try searching for a
PocketPC or DreamCast emulator for linux, and then install Windows CE in the
emulated environment.
- Oliver
Roedy Green - 12 Nov 2005 03:47 GMT
>Is it possible to buy an Apple Powerbook and load windows on it?
>
>I know this is not the right place to ask such a question, but i am
>sure someone among u geniuses would know the answer to that.
Steve Jobs said Apple is abandoning the Power PC for the Intel CPU
architecture. So if you wait a bit, the answer should be yes.

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jonck@vanderkogel.net - 12 Nov 2005 11:29 GMT
> Any suggestions...
A PowerBook is indeed a very nice machine, but you're going to want to
run OS X on it. You can run VirtualPC if you want to test your Java
applications in a Windows environment, but don't expect great
performance of VirtualPC, it is after all an emulated environment.
But don't worry, once you've worked with OS X you won't want to go back
to Windows. Give it a try, it's truly a very nice operating system. And
as Roedy already pointed out, Apple is switching to Intel processors,
which should make it a lot easier to run Windows on an Apple machine in
the near future.
Also, Apple has recently registered a pattent that would allow for
running Windows and Linux at (nearly) native speeds as a virtual
machine. This would really be great news for us Java developers, since
you can then test your applications in the 3 major OS's, all on the
same machine!
For an article on the patent, see:
http://www.architosh.com/news/2005-11/2005a1108_tb-multi-os.html
Roedy Green - 12 Nov 2005 14:07 GMT
>http://www.architosh.com/news/2005-11/2005a1108_tb-multi-os.html
Apple's patent is interesting because they automate the process of
making code tamper resistant. I used a technique like that in the
MacIntosh CSL Stock Charter , manually to make the program difficult
to tamper. In the manual version I created layers of booby traps so
that the hacker would think he had succeeded only some time later to
discover there was yet another layer of defences. Unlike Apple, I did
not politely trigger an interrupt. I arranged for a derailment at some
time in future.
Of course such tamper resistance code has to permeate everything --
the antithesis of maintainable code.

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