Do a lot of people run windoze on older machines like 2,1?

[ChaosControl]

I would love to mess with some of these older mac pro machines since I like old desktops but I doubt that I want to learn mac os and osx and all at the moment
They're pretty similar hardware wise to my Dell T7400 and T5400 boxes, right?

 

[Synchro3]

Yes. For example Windows 10 on a Mac Mini 2006: https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...009-a1283-with-2gb-ram.1935171/#post-23819284

 

[hartleymartin]

I was looking into Windows 7 on my Mac Pro 1,1. I want to do the 64-bit installation, but first I'll be upgrading the CPUs and flashing the firmware to a Mac Pro 2,1.

I dual-boot Windows via Bootcamp on my Mac Pros primarily for games that I cannot get the run properly under emulation layers.

 

[pastrychef]

The number of people who run Windows on the 1,1s have probably increased over the years as it lost support for newer versions of macOS. I expect the same to be true for other Mac models.

 

[orph]

i run both >.< why not?

as a plus if your running just windows you can use any GPU you want without real problems

 

[hartleymartin]

There is a way to modify OSX El Capitan to run on the Mac Pro 1,1 and 2,1. Basically, you need to replace the two boot.efi files. As far as I am aware, there is no way to get Sierra on a 1,1 or 2,1 but I have not yet encountered software which demands Sierra. Most things will run on any version of OSX 10.8.x or later.