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mlecho


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Your Mac's Specs
800 mhz iBook G4- 12"
i am new to apple, but i love it so much i want to know...if i formatted my xp machine and reinstalled the Mac OS x.2.3, would it work? Could i make my windows machine a mac by simply erasing, formating, and installing apple software? or is there a hardware issue?
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trpnmonkey41


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Your Mac's Specs
20" iMac C2D 2.16ghz, 13" MacBook 2.0ghz, 60gb iPod vid, 1gb nano
nope windows machines are built on x86 architecture which is completely different than the powerpc G setup that macs use
 

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