[RE-SENT TO LIST. AGAIN. HENRY, WHERE ARE YOU???]
On 17 Aug 2005, at 8:15 AM, Simon Troup wrote:
As some of you may already be aware, some intrepid geeko techs are
already trying to figure out how to get OSX to run on an ordinary
PC, and some ae now speculating on how cheaply a PC could be built
to run OSX:
http://www.osx86project.org/index.php?
option=com_content&task=view&id=27&Itemid=2
This looks like a right laugh to me, having spent over £3000 on a
couple of macs for the business this year alone. Does anyone expect
that this kind of thing will actually be possible?
Not for the actual (non-developer) release of OS X for MacIntel, no.
That hack is only possible now because the developer machines are
basically unmodified P4's in a G5 case. The actual MacIntels will
certainly have proprietary hardware that makes running OS X on non-
Apple machines very, very difficult -- probably not impossible, but
probably not worth the trouble, either.
Do you really want to run *anything* on a $200 PC? In about a year,
you will be able to get a MacIntel MacMini for $500 -- surely that's
more attractive than trying to build your own FrankenMacIntel and
gambling with each OS update that Apple won't break compatibility
with your unsupported machine.
Is the whole point of Intel/Mac that Apple are positioning
themselves for a proper x86 release a little later down the line?
No, not at all. The whole point is that after years of being
shackled by Motorola's and IBM's disappointing production, Apple had
little choice but to go with x86 processors or continue to be left
behind (especially w/r/t portables).
- Darcy
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