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<blockquote data-quote="Juan Largo" data-source="post: 661955" data-attributes="member: 47345"><p>I doubt that Apple plans on exchanging Intel Macs for PPCs for free, if that's what you mean. As far as converting your PPC into an Intel Mac, I suppose it is theoretically possible to change the logic board. But I have a feeling that a conversion would involve a lot more than just that. I haven't heard of anyone who actually has done such a conversion.</p><p></p><p>Unfortunately, virtualization software such as VMware and VirtualBox (that would allow you to install a virtual OS X on your machine) also requires an Intel CPU to run on. So it looks like you're pretty much stuck with the operating system you've got. When Apple introduced the Intel Macs, they provided software to convert older applications to run on the newer machines. AFAIK, there is no conversion software that will allow newer applications to run on older machines. </p><p></p><p>The only other thing I can offer is this: Ubuntu has released a PPC version of its Linux operating system. Although you obviously won't be able to run any Macintosh applications on Ubuntu, there are thousands of Linux applications that do everything from soup to nuts. So this option could let you get some more use out of your machine.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Juan Largo, post: 661955, member: 47345"] I doubt that Apple plans on exchanging Intel Macs for PPCs for free, if that's what you mean. As far as converting your PPC into an Intel Mac, I suppose it is theoretically possible to change the logic board. But I have a feeling that a conversion would involve a lot more than just that. I haven't heard of anyone who actually has done such a conversion. Unfortunately, virtualization software such as VMware and VirtualBox (that would allow you to install a virtual OS X on your machine) also requires an Intel CPU to run on. So it looks like you're pretty much stuck with the operating system you've got. When Apple introduced the Intel Macs, they provided software to convert older applications to run on the newer machines. AFAIK, there is no conversion software that will allow newer applications to run on older machines. The only other thing I can offer is this: Ubuntu has released a PPC version of its Linux operating system. Although you obviously won't be able to run any Macintosh applications on Ubuntu, there are thousands of Linux applications that do everything from soup to nuts. So this option could let you get some more use out of your machine. [/QUOTE]
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