Happyprogramming, Here's a summary of all the ways to run Windows software using your Mac. Ilm E Jafar Software there. One very interesting possibility is Microsoft's free terminal emulator that lets you run software on a Windows box as though it were your own computer. Also take a look at Bochs and Lismore Blue Label. I haven't used any of these approaches, having found that Virtual PC does what I need. You might be able to get a cross-platform version from the publisher of your Windows software. Almost certainly you can find a different program that does the same (or very similar) job.

Games and extremely specialized vertical applications are really the only places where you absolutely need to run Windows on a Mac. The vertical applications will probably run fine (though somewhat slower). Any games issued in the past couple of years will seem too slow to be playable under emulation, however.

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Click to expand.Nope. EDIT: Okay, just because you clearly need some education in this area, the reason people can 'hack OS X on a PC' is because Macs ARE PCs now. There's nothing particularly special about their hardware compared to a run-of-the-mill PC, besides the fact that they use EFI instead of BIOS. Boot Camp is really just a tool to partition the drive—there were several firmware updates for early Intel Macs' EFI firmwares to provide a BIOS-emulation mode so that Windows could run natively on them.

So, Boot Camp is pretty much the same (in reverse) as what people are doing to make 'Hackintoshes.' PPC Macs are left out in the cold because at a base level their hardware is not x86-based. PowerPC chips are a completely different architecture/instruction set, so to run x86 stuff on them you have to emulate an x86 CPU, which is slow. There's no PowerPC-compiled version of Windows XP, so you're out of luck. EDIT: Okay, just because you clearly need some education in this area, the reason people can 'hack OS X on a PC' is because Macs ARE PCs now. There's nothing particularly special about their hardware compared to a run-of-the-mill PC, besides the fact that they use EFI instead of BIOS.

Boot Camp is really just a tool to partition the drive—there were several firmware updates for early Intel Macs' EFI firmwares to provide a BIOS-emulation mode so that Windows could run natively on them. So, Boot Camp is pretty much the same (in reverse) as what people are doing to make 'Hackintoshes.' PPC Macs are left out in the cold because at a base level their hardware is not x86-based. PowerPC chips are a completely different architecture/instruction set, so to run x86 stuff on them you have to emulate an x86 CPU, which is slow. There's no PowerPC-compiled version of Windows XP, so you're out of luck. Click to expand.So your Mac is a piece of crap then?

Macs are PCs. PC stands for Personal Computer. Last time I checked, a Mac is a personal computer. Anyways, it is absolutely in no way possible, not with any amount of technical knowledge, not with any amount of money, not with any amount of anything to get Windows XP running on a PPC Mac outside of Virtual Machine.

It just is not, in any way, possible. 2 completely different, incompatible processor architectures. You can beg and plead all you want on internet forums, it is just not going to happen.