mac dual boot with windows

mac and windows on the same computer

[ilustrate]

i've been reading about dual booting capabilities with Linux and windows. Could I possibly obtain say for example Mac OS X Tiger and install it on an HP AMD computer with for example an AMD 3500+ Athlon. 1gb ram And dual boot from windows to mac.... vice versus.

[timster]

Funny you should mention this since it's big news these days.

The short answer is no, Mac OS X won't boot on anything besides a Mac and Apple plans to keep it that way.

Currently the only way to run both Mac OS X and Windows on the same machine is with an emulator such as Virtual PC.

Maybe you've heard that Apple is switching to Intel processors. When that happens, it may be possible that you can buy a Mac and configure it to multi-boot Mac, Windows, Linux, etc.

It a very good bet that there will also be applications that offer "Windows in a Window" that are like today's hardware emulators, only much faster.

Thirdly, there's been an announcement that "Wine" will be ported to Mac OS X, which promises to allow Windows applications to run on a Mac without actually running Windows.

I reckon that's more than you asked for, but in case you're still in a reading mood, here's a link:

[macworld.com ]