On Thu, 2005-05-26 at 14:36 +1200, Craig FALCONER wrote: > One thing that would be cool - a laptop based on one of these power5 > CPUs. It wouldn't be capable of running windows!
It could *almost* run Windows™. The dev-kit for the XBox 360 is a G5 Mac running a modified version of NT-4. The chips are almost the same (Power4 rather than a PowerPC), the GPU is very similar (an ATI), and the OS is quite close to what is in the XBox (the actual XBox 360 uses a heavily modified version of Windows 2000, rather than NT.) If you threw the Power5 into 32-bit mode it may just start… However, in reality Windows will not boot on a Power5 :) -- Michael JasonSmith http://www.ldots.org/
