The boy is looking into his "dream laptop". He is leaning towards a Mac laptop and says he wants to do Windows XP via Parallels or whatever. Got me thinking about emulation again.
Awhile back I managed to get Mac OS 7.5.5 running on my 433 HP laptop via Basillisk II (http://basilisk.cebix.net/). You basically make a disk image and then use Basillisk to access it, copy over and install Mac OS 7.5.3 and then upgrade that to 7.5.5. It was fun to mess with, but I couldn't get the networking going, and without internet access, crap just isn't as fun as it could be.
Anywho, found reference to another Mac emulator called SheepShaver (http://gwenole.beauchesne.info/projects/sheepshaver/) which can allow you to run up to OS 9.0.4. Hmmm.
The bad thing is both emulators require a ROM image.
Also, was thinking about a Hackintosh (http://lifehacker.com/software/hack-attack/build-a-hackintosh-mac-for-under-800-321913.php) - shoehorning Mac OS X__ onto a non-Apple Intel puter. Hmmm...
so funny. when you start talking Mac stuff I have no clue what you talking about!! Might have to get into it one day.
Trust me - I know almost nothing of a MAC. I have owned two, but they both had "problems" and I didn't have enogh knowledge or patience to get them sorted out, so I parseed them off.