Has anyone tried installing Windows XP on their iPod Nano?

[her209]

If so, were you successful? If yes, what was the performance like?

 

[mikecel79]

huh? This a joke?

 

[her209]

Originally posted by: mikecel79
huh? This a joke?

No, its not a joke. I'm wondering if its possible.

 

[phisrow]

I would imagine that the performance would be fairly unimpressive. Flash memory has good seek times; but isn't all that fast in throughput terms. Running everything over USB isn't going to help. It could certainly be done, though(assuming you mean installing XP on the Nano being treated as an external hard drive, further assuming that Apple didn't break that function wholly in favour of Itunes).

I don't really know why you would want to, though. The Ipod is a very expensive excuse for a portable hard drive, Windows doesn't play well when transferred from one machine to another, and XP obviously doesn't run on the Nano's hardware. You'll need Linux for that.

 

[stash]

Um no.

I believe the nano has like a 80Mhz ARM processor with 32MB of RAM.

 

[her209]

Originally posted by: phisrow
It could certainly be done, though(assuming you mean installing XP on the Nano being treated as an external hard drive,

Yes, that's what I was intending. Sorry for the confusion.

 

[Nothinman]

It shows up as a normal USB drive in Windows right, why not just benchmark it to get an idea of the performance?

 

[her209]

Originally posted by: Nothinman
It shows up as a normal USB drive in Windows right, why not just benchmark it to get an idea of the performance?

I don't own one. It'll be another excuse for me to get one.

 

[MrChad]

Originally posted by: STaSh
Um no.

I believe the nano has like a 80Mhz ARM processor with 32MB of RAM.

Perhaps he means attaching it as a regular USB drive and installing XP on it that way.

 

[thehstrybean]

Why would I put Windows XP on it? Fedora, baby!!


And it's not possible....if it is, it's crazy...

 

[stash]

Originally posted by: MrChad

Originally posted by: STaSh
Um no.

I believe the nano has like a 80Mhz ARM processor with 32MB of RAM.

Perhaps he means attaching it as a regular USB drive and installing XP on it that way.

Yeah, I see that now. The original post did not make that clear at all.

 

[stash]

Plus it would be much cheaper to get a 'real' external hard drive.

 

[her209]

Originally posted by: STaSh
Plus it would be much cheaper to get a 'real' external hard drive.

Yeah, but it won't be flash based nor will it be as small and portable.

 

[bsobel]

Originally posted by: her209
If so, were you successful? If yes, what was the performance like?

Have a couple of friends who put Vmware images on their pods and then use the Vmware player on the host machine to spin it up....

 

[stash]

Originally posted by: her209

Originally posted by: STaSh
Plus it would be much cheaper to get a 'real' external hard drive.

Yeah, but it won't be flash based nor will it be as small and portable.

Really?