Running Mac OSX on a PC

Post by **racketboy** » Sun Sep 17, 2006 5:21 pm

Anybody have a good way of doing this?
I was thinking of buying a used P4 Dell machine for my work for dirt cheap if there was a way to run OSX on it well.
I've dug around a bit and can't find anything solid on the matter.
Can anybody point me in the right direction?

Post by **lordofduct** » Sun Sep 17, 2006 10:26 pm

Inherently the OSX 10.3 and lower won't be able to be put on non PPC platforms with out massive hacking of the kernel and all that fun shit. There was a group set up that started doing this called "OSx86"... cute pun eh?

Anyways, when 10.4 came out and Mac started with their new intel based Macbooks then x86 was placed into the OS by Mac themselves. Alas though they circumvented the non Mac hardware users by placing what is called a EFI (extensible firmware interface) in place of a BIOS found on normal x86 systems today (this info found on Wikipedia... not like I REALLY know what the hell a EFI is). Anyways, despite my not knowing what exactly all this technical hardware shit is... I do know that it is DIFFERENT from standard 'wintel' architecture.

http://www.osx86project.org/

Go here though and many patches have been released to circumvent this little chip they have. Each release though was shot back with a new patch by Apple. But the guy who did it is pretty quick on his feet and continually thwarts Apples attempts at blocking these users. That website should send you in the right direction from here on out.

Post by **racketboy** » Sun Sep 17, 2006 10:29 pm

lordofduct wrote:Inherently the OSX 10.3 and lower won't be able to be put on non PPC platforms with out massive hacking of the kernel and all that fun shit. There was a group set up that started doing this called "OSx86"... cute pun eh?

Anyways, when 10.4 came out and Mac started with their new intel based Macbooks then x86 was placed into the OS by Mac themselves. Alas though they circumvented the non Mac hardware users by placing what is called a EFI (extensible firmware interface) in place of a BIOS found on normal x86 systems today (this info found on Wikipedia... not like I REALLY know what the hell a EFI is). Anyways, despite my not knowing what exactly all this technical hardware shit is... I do know that it is DIFFERENT from standard 'wintel' architecture.

http://www.osx86project.org/

Go here though and many patches have been released to circumvent this little chip they have. Each release though was shot back with a new patch by Apple. But the guy who did it is pretty quick on his feet and continually thwarts Apples attempts at blocking these users. That website should send you in the right direction from here on out.

Awesome -- thanks for what looks to be the best resource!