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Boot Intel Macs from iPods

by David Chartier Feb 27th 2006 at 7:00PM

We've already discovered that Intel Macs can boot from USB drives, but MacOSXHints has devised a way of booting these fancy new Macs from a USB iPod, without having to partition it or ruin its ability to play music and videos. There are a few steps involved, so check out their play-by-play for the full deets on how to imbue your iPod with an Intel version of Mac OS X.

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We've already discovered that Intel Macs can boot from USB drives, but MacOSXHints has devised a way of booting these fancy new Macs from a...
 

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Illtron

What would be really cool, and I realize that this is way out there (for now, anyway), would be the ability to boot any old PC off of my iPod. It would be incredibly cool to show up at any friend's place, plug my iPod into his PC, and be able to do whatever it is I need to do on my copy of OS X, then have everything go back to normal like nothing ever happened. Now *that* would be cool.

A geek can dream, can't he?

February 28 2006 at 6:06 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Andrew

Too bad you can't install OS X on the iPods like you used to be able to when they were FireWire.

February 27 2006 at 7:40 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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