Running OSX natively on PC

velocirafter

does anyone have any experience running OSX natively on PC hardware. I've been looking around the internet and most of the blogs are a couple of years old.

Full compatibility is a priority and 10.5 would be the preferred version of OSX but 10.4 would be fine if it saves a lot of hastle.

If there is a currently available model from dell or any other maker that meets the requirements that would be great instead of having to source the parts individually.

RoosterIllusion

Buy a mac.

Thomas_S_Hunterson

It's illegal afaik, (EULA barred)

trout

velocirafter wrote: »

Full compatibility is a priority and 10.5 would be the preferred version of OSX but 10.4 would be fine if it saves a lot of hastle.

The effort required to hack OSX onto a standard PC or laptop is not trivial.
It takes some effort, and a lot of trial and error config changes and lockups.

If full compatibility really is a priority for you ... buy a Mac.

If you want to experiment and don't care about the licensing / legality, there are several online group projects devoted to this topic, some of which have install guides tailored to particular brands/models.

They all rely on cracked installs - some try to be cute and show you how to make your own OSX install disc from a genuine Apple disc ... but the point is moot, running OSX on anything other than an Mac is a breach of the license.

DonkeyStyle \o/

trout wrote: »

some try to be cute and show you how to make your own OSX install disc from a genuine Apple disc

I heard something about someone putting an apple sticker/logo on their PC so it'd qualify as "Apple branded hardware"
I was intrigued by the whole 'hackintosh' idea for a while, but my curiosity fizzled out pretty quickly once I started reading about all the fiddly bullshít... I can install linux if I want to spend hours trying to figure out why one thing or another won't work. :pac:
Macs smell anyway.

Anima

Does it have to be native? Why not use VMware to load it?

yoyo

DonkeyStyle \o/ wrote: »

I heard something about someone putting an apple sticker/logo on their PC so it'd qualify as "Apple branded hardware"
I was intrigued by the whole 'hackintosh' idea for a while, but my curiosity fizzled out pretty quickly once I started reading about all the fiddly bullshít... I can install linux if I want to spend hours trying to figure out why one thing or another won't work. :pac:
Macs smell anyway.

You must modify the OSX disc for it to install on a pc, which is breaching the EULA anyway...

Nick

MunsterCycling

Why the worry about the EULA its only Mac OS after all.


MC

DonkeyStyle \o/

yoyo wrote: »

You must modify the OSX disc for it to install on a pc, which is breaching the EULA anyway...

I was just referring to people trying to be cute... I'm sure the people doing it don't give a rats about the EULA.

aidan_walsh

You're not allowed to install OS X on non-Apple hardware.