1.25 ghz Mac
Currently using Mac OS version 10.2.8.
Would a store bought Windows Vista DVD install and work on this computer?
2007-01-30 07:53:42 · 6 answers · asked by Daniel K 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
If you bought a MAC running 10.2 then it is probably a power PC MAc not an Intel MAC. If that is the case, NO you can not install any kind of Windows on it. If it is an Intel MAC, then you can install XP. I dont know if Apple has it ready for Vista yet. Also, what compatibility issues, I have no problems at all.
2007-01-30 08:01:07 · answer #1 · answered by Just Bored!! 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Uh, no dude, you totally can't. You've bought a Mac, Mac's only run the Mac OS*. If you wanted to run Windows you should've bought a PC, you're stuck with it now.
*Okay, that's not entirely true, using BootCamp you can install Windows XP, but not Vista, and even then only if you've got a Mac with an Intel processor, which I suspect yours is too old for with only a 1.25GHz CPU in it. Even then it's problematic as BootCamp's still only a beta release and there's a lot of problems with driver support so it's not really a proper replacement for a PC.
2007-01-30 08:26:17 · answer #2 · answered by Bamba 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
first of all, OS X in basic terms runs LEGALLY on Apple desktops. Secondly, no digital device App may even run OS X. IF it could, Apple might sue the VM developer's butt off. So, locate an OS X subject to your version of living house windows, or, attempt lots of the loose 'OS X-like' Linux Distros suggested before. All are "twin-bootable". TIP: A living house windows 7 improve from Vista (which nonetheless sucks) is a sensible circulate, too.
2016-10-16 07:40:30 · answer #3 · answered by season 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes but you will need to buy the full version of Windows Vista. Also, when you install perform a clean install. Wipe out the Apple software and put Vista on a blank hard-drive. That should be about it. God Bless and Jesus Saves.
2007-01-30 07:58:47 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that'd depend on whether it's an x86 processor (a.k.a. Intel-compatible) or a PowerPC. The older ones are PowerPC and the newer ones x86, I believe. If you have an x86 processor and it meets all the system requirements, I think it'll work.
Just remember to make backups before the installation, if you can: better to have Mac OS than to have no operating system at all. (Then again, there's Linux, which is free, but it has even more incompatibility issues than Mac and it's probably more similar in general to Mac than to Windows.)
2007-01-30 08:01:14 · answer #5 · answered by Steven F 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Before you do that, check out the Vista system requirements here:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsvista/editions/systemrequirements.mspx
If everything else is compatible, then go for a full Vista install, as it comes on a DVD, I understand.
2007-01-30 08:04:24 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋