captainbriggs Posted November 3, 2007 Share Posted November 3, 2007 I have a powermac G4, used to be 450Mhz or something, upgraded to 1ghz before I bought it (single chip, AGP, M7825LL/;), running Leopard 10.5. 2GB ram. Can I run Windows Vista on this machine? Can I run Vista with Virtual PC 7 on my machine? If not, is there some kind of hack to run Vista on a powerpc-chip mac? Is it impossible for physical reasons? I am new here, be nice. Thanks - Matt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Numberzz Posted November 4, 2007 Share Posted November 4, 2007 You can, using Q or Virtual PC or any similar x86 emulator. It will not run very fast at all, XP took my 5 hours to install on my 1.5GHz PowerBook, so I assume it will take longer. I would get an Intel Mac if you want to run it at full speed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
captainbriggs Posted November 6, 2007 Author Share Posted November 6, 2007 Thank you for the reply numbers. I'm trying to get a copy of Virtual PC 7, but it's selling for $100 used on Ebay right now, yikes. Now I'm having a newly discovered problem as a result of the upgrade, which I will post elsewhere: I can't play DVDs. Bummer. Other than that Leopard is pretty cool so far. You can, using Q or Virtual PC or any similar x86 emulator. It will not run very fast at all, XP took my 5 hours to install on my 1.5GHz PowerBook, so I assume it will take longer. I would get an Intel Mac if you want to run it at full speed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Embio Posted November 6, 2007 Share Posted November 6, 2007 dude, we have the same second name! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Nonny Moose Posted November 8, 2007 Share Posted November 8, 2007 My head hurts just from thinking of Vista running under Virtual PC. You're better off getting Win XP with the Froot Loop interface turned off for Virtual PC. Or get Win 2000. Both will run acceptably under VPC (not fast, but acceptable). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azurael Posted November 8, 2007 Share Posted November 8, 2007 Ew... Virtual PC... Maybe Win95 is called for? I can just imagine Vista in VPC on a 1GHz G4. 'I clicked the start menu' - I'll just go and make a cup of tea and when I've drunk that... and finished building the shed, it might have finished popping up on screen. Still, that's nothing, because it took a month to boot! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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