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by **dlx** on Thu Jul 13, 2006 8:00 am

Weeeee, i found out yesterday, that theres a way of installing mac os x on your regular pc / laptop! For me as a mac user with a not-much-used PC standing around it was the best news ever! Well, said and done - so i installed it following one of the many tutorials out there (its really only as hard as "make a new partition and throw the osx disk into your optical drive")!

Heres how it looks like after installation:

if you are interested in this aswell, simply google for osx86project - its not that hard and a hell lot of fun (especially for ati card owners because nvidia isnt natively supported yet Very Happy

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Enjoy, i hope you dont consider this as spam Smile

by **DjDarkman** on Thu Jul 13, 2006 7:10 pm

What about the other device driver like soundcard?

by **darthmandeep** on Thu Jul 13, 2006 7:41 pm

Is this still considered illegal? Sad

How I long for the day I can legally install OS X on a non-Apple box.

by **dlx** on Sat Jul 15, 2006 7:10 pm

most drivers are supported by default (lan, gpu, sound etc) for most other drivers there are tweaks out Smile

i dont quite know about legal or illegal. its legal if you are an apple developer Smile

if not you can always patch your legal version of mac os to accept your hardware Smile

by **zeep** on Sun Jul 16, 2006 1:26 am

ewwww mac
I don't like mac computers, but maybe the OS on a normal PC would be fine. I've never really liked mac that much ever

by **memo** on Sun Jul 16, 2006 2:10 am

There's nothing unusual to install MacOS X to regular IBM PC. Since Apple oficially switched to Intel processors all the MacOS X versions are designed to run on i686 architecture. I heard that to install MacOS X Jaguar you'll need processor which supports SSE2 instructions set.

by **topolab** on Sun Jul 16, 2006 10:20 am

http://wakeuppakistan.blogspot.com/2006 ... in-xp.html

by **dlx** on Sun Jul 16, 2006 12:20 pm

zeep wrote:ewwww mac
I don't like mac computers, but maybe the OS on a normal PC would be fine. I've never really liked mac that much ever

wtf. whats so eeeeew about mac? did you ever even use a mac? theres nothing really special about the hardware, so hows owning a mac and running mac os x on a pc different?

by **sERIAL** on Tue Jul 18, 2006 8:13 pm

Mac's are awesome!
Plain and final

(Planing on buying a MacBook Pro next year since they = lots of cash)

by **zeep** on Tue Jul 18, 2006 9:20 pm

dlx wrote:
zeep wrote:ewwww mac
I don't like mac computers, but maybe the OS on a normal PC would be fine. I've never really liked mac that much ever

wtf. whats so eeeeew about mac? did you ever even use a mac? theres nothing really special about the hardware, so hows owning a mac and running mac os x on a pc different?

Yes i have used a mac, and I didn't like it. It was the setup and the look of it ... I dunno I just didn't like it. Our elementary school had all macs and they sucked sucked sucked... my school now has one or two macs and i've used it once or twice and I didn't like them..

by **Nintendud** on Thu Jul 20, 2006 10:28 pm

Is there a tutorial on how to add an entry for the Mac OS in Grub? I would love to triple boot Windows, Linux, and the Mac OS, but I haven't found any example Grub entries for the Mac OS.

I would love to try out that OS. Smile

by **dlx** on Fri Jul 21, 2006 8:13 am

Nintendud wrote:Is there a tutorial on how to add an entry for the Mac OS in Grub? I would love to triple boot Windows, Linux, and the Mac OS, but I haven't found any example Grub entries for the Mac OS.

I would love to try out that OS.

No problem: http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index ... ltibooting

by **Nintendud** on Fri Jul 21, 2006 4:12 pm

Thank you very much. Smile

Now I can have the power of three OSes! Any recommendations on the partition size I should use for the Mac OS?

Heh, I'm posting from work! Hurray for lunch break!

by **Pete** on Sat Jul 22, 2006 4:15 pm

DZFGH

by **Pete** on Sat Jul 22, 2006 4:22 pm

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