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Old 12-12-2005, 07:16 PM
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I have an apple notebook laptop. Is it possible to format the hard drive and install windows XP? Will XP work with the apple cpu? And what about the drivers?

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Nope.

Apple OS runs on Apple hardware only. That is why you don't see any Apple OS on any other machines, or Windows on Apple machines. There IS a version of Linux (Yellow Dog) that runs on Apple machines.

Apple is going to start using x86 (the standard that most home computers are on) sometime next year. But even then, your laptop will be the same.
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Nope.

Apple OS runs on Apple hardware only. That is why you don't see any Apple OS on any other machines, or Windows on Apple machines. There IS a version of Linux (Yellow Dog) that runs on Apple machines.

Apple is going to start using x86 (the standard that most home computers are on) sometime next year. But even then, your laptop will be the same.

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