Apple G5 thoughts

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I've currently got one of these in the back of the van, complete with a rather nice matching aluminium display screen.

The specifications confirm it's all 64 bit stuff on the motherboard, so would it be possible to fit a 64 bit version of Windows 8 onto a blank hard drive and run it on the Apple hardware ?

I did have some success a while ago with an iMAC, but that was to run XP 32 bit, nothing more. Thread somewhere in the archives
 
Its a PowerPC CPU so i really don't think it would work in all honesty. No harm in trying though. I would imagine drivers would be the biggest problem.

I still use mine with OSX 10.5. The only thing that doesn't work with it is Flash which is annoying considering how many websites use it now.

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According to my apple nut of a friend over across the pond, the G5 CPUs were sh*t... :-rofl2

Apparently when motorola stopped making PPC processors, IBM had a go at it, and out popped their in-house design G5 which apparently wasn't all that good, and was the main reason they switched over to Intel CPUs... :)

I'm sure you could run Windows on it, but only under the MacOS with VirtualBox or similar, don't think Windows supports PPC so running natively wouldn't really work...
 
Thanks. The reasoning was that since it was a freebie, and a 64 bit mobo, I could get some reasonable processing speed out of a modernish Windows o/s (the wife's laptop came with a COA Win7-64bit disk which isn't being used).

The G5 also has a nice looking video card plus a box of RAM which would fill all the available slots.

Will continue to look.
 
Linux would be a bonus, is it processor/mobo transparent though ?
 
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