Any way to run Win7 on a PPC Mac?

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Found a Mac Pro with two 2 GHz PowerPC G5 CPUs, 1 GB of RAM, and a 160 GB HDD for $220 on eBay (refurbished, and by a top-rated seller). I'm just curious... is it possible to get Windows 7 (or any Windows version at all for that matter, given the CPU architecture...) on it? I'm mainly getting it to run Xcode, have a Mac of some sort, and have a machine with an architecture other than x86.
 

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The short answer is yes.
Google "windows 7 on mac pro"
:)
 

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Custom Build
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Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit
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Sardonicus said:
The short answer is yes.
Google "windows 7 on mac pro"
:)
Click to expand...

Um, OP is asking about running Windows 7 on PowerPC architecture. Mac Pros are Intel architecture.

I don't think it's possible. It getting harder and harder to even run a decent Linux distro on PPC much less Windows. :confused:
 

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Windows 7 X64 Professional
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Intel® Pentium D Dual Core 3.6GHZ
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DELL Dimension 9150 MotherBoard DXP051 XPS400 FJ030
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4GB DDR2 PC2-5300
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ASUS XONAR DG 5.1 Channels PCI Interface Xonar DG
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2 X 23" Apple Cinema Display
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250GB Intel® 510 Series SSD SATA 6G (w/TRIM) [500MB/s Reads]
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375 Watt Dell
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Logitech Illuminated Keyboard
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This machine was given to me when my dad bought a new computer. I keep throwing upgrades at it and it keeps on ticking. Think I've done everything to it that can be done outside a PSU upgrade so I can run an even BETTER GPU.
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