Why not make iPods bootable and load OSX x86 on there?

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webwillywebwilly
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in macOS edited January 2014
I was thinking, why not release a version of OSX x86 that can be booted from an iPod? iOperate or something similar. Then Apple could win over more casual windows users as they wouldn't even need to set up their pc to dual-boot, just plug in the ipod and boot from the bios into mac os (most modern bioses allow this). And the rest of use could carry around a fully functional install for when we only have x86 hardware available but don't want to have to use Windows or whatever.

Sounds like a plan to me, anyone else see where I'm coming from on this.

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  • Reply 1 of 3
    gene cleangene clean Posts: 3,481member
    Because it's an 1" drive. It would fry with some modest to serious activity.
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    vandewaalsvandewaals Posts: 450member
    iPods are bootable already. As the above poster noted, Apple highly recommends that you don't do that. The constant spinning a boot drive is subject to will fry such a small drive in short order.
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    wmfwmf Posts: 1,164member
    Writing thousands of drivers isn't free.
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