Remember when Mac OS X only ran on Macs? That era is a thing of the past, as a group of hackers have already managed to install Leopard on vanilla PCs, with only a modicum of effort required. As DailyApps reports:
Well its been only a day since the Mac OSX Leopard was released officially by Apple and the hackers have managed to create a patched DVD that everyone like you and me can use to install Leopard on PC’s without having to buy a Mac. Please note the tutorial that I am going to post is still experimental and things might not work the right way simply because it is still early days in hacking Leopard to work on PC’s. Well if you don’t mind your PC getting screwed then go ahead and try out this tutorial.
I always expected that this was a possible consequence of Apple’s shift to Intel processors, but this still boggles the mind. Has anyone else tried to non-suckify their Wintel box yet? And does the vibrant iPhone hacker community have anything to do with this change?
Hack Attack : Install Leopard on your PC in 3 easy steps! | dailyApps
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2 responses to “Hack Attack : Install Leopard on your PC in 3 easy steps! | dailyApps”
Well, I’ve been runing Tiger on my sister’s Toshiba notebook (Celeron D, with sucky integrated VIA UNICHROME card), and it’s been running fine.
Even though there was no driver for the zuney* video chip, it runs fine with a general vesa driver. Everything was delegated to the processor I guess, but some graphic heavy programs still run slow.
So, smooth sailing, except the automatic updates of the system (from 10.4.x to 10.4.x+1) were a nightmare, you had to do it in console, and almost always keep the previous kernel. Still a nice exercise. And better than having zuney Windows.
Now I’m back in college and stuck with my 3 years old PC, that won’t boot up OS X(you need at least SSE2).
There’s nothing worse than a Mac guy stuck in Windows world, sigh.
Hope to raise some money to at last buy me a Mac, even if it is just a mini (would like that hot new Macbook that’s coming out, though).
*hey a new adjective, better then the fecal one :)