Mac OS X for intel

D.J.Toonz

i was told i couldent install mac OS X on my dell pc as it was intell based

can i do it now seeing as mac OS X has been released for intel?

here http://www.apple.com/macosx/

flogen

No, as far as I know there's something in OSX that will block its use on non-mac machines.

Some clever bugger has hacked it, but that's another story altogether.

ethernet

If all goes to the worst, you can use the native PowerPC Mac OS X software with the aid of PearPC ... check it out here: www.pearpc.net

Not as snappy as a non-emulated system, but may feed your craving for the OS. Or, perhaps, you might consider a cheap Mac Mini?

MarkoP11

OS X will run on most commodity PC hardware, you have to have a high spec Intel P4 with SSE3

The original, first release of Marklar the pre production release for Intel could with a little trickery run on a bog standard Dell. Apple use a trusted computing chip to prevent it from running on a non apple hardware. Originally this was implemented as a kernel extension so you could get around it if you understand OS X, basically you needed to be a fairly knowledgeable to get an install to work correctly, i.e. you needed to already have a Mac. There is a view held that apple allowed this to continue as it was almost a free source of compatibility info, and it was a surprise to all how much cheap and nasty PC hardware ran without difficulty and without that stupid windows found new hardware message, on a mac it just works you only get a message if it doesn't

There is no point even thinking about installing it as apple are a clever bunch and altered the compiler/linker thus the current native x86 applications won't run on 10.4.1 if there are complied on a later release as all are

The first production release 10.4.4 requires an EFI BIOS and there is no way round the trusted computing module. It even includes a kernel extension which goes by the name of don't steal Mac OS X, so don't. This is the only really usable release the others where rock solid stable but not everything worked

I know all this since,

A) Its all over the net
I know a guy who actually has a official developer machine from apple under the ADC program
C) I have a official licensed copy of all 68k and PPC Mac OS releases as far back as 1984

The 10.4.4 installer disk is actually dual boot it will boot just about any machine bearing the apple logo which has inbuilt USB, the source of the kernel is available for free online under the apple darwin project which also provides a dual boot installer but that gives you a linux console system you can install KDE etc and that works on the majority of intel based motherboards

Best option is to wait a few months till someone gets windows running on a Intel Mac, or vmware are to launch a Mac version so you could run windows at the same time, the mac processor is a Intel dual core duo which has the virtualisation instructions and then everything is legal and fully supported. Windows vista is going to be on the first to run, XP doesn't do EFI bios. There is a small army working on it right now

As I understand it is in breach of the licence to run any Mac OS release on anything other the Apple hardware, previously there where ways to get the PPC version to run on some exotic IBM servers, Pear PC will work but its painfully slow.

Obey the licence, don't steal, remain legal