First Look at Apple's Intel Developer Macs

xyankee writes "Think Secret is reporting that developers have started taking receipt of Apple's Intel-based Mac kits. Along with some specs and photos, the site reports that Windows XP installs without a hitch on the systems and that casually trying to install Mac OS X for Intel on a Dell doesn't work... yet..."

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The question is...

[Anonymous Coward]

Does the reality distortion field still work?

so..

[isecore]

where's the torrent for OSX Intel Edition?

Obligatory Question

[Anonymous Coward]

Does it run Linux?

Re:Obligatory Question

[Anonymous Coward]

Does it run Linux?

Yes, it's called OS X. It's the new version of Linux that everyone will be running in a year or two.

OS X on a PC...

[mpontes]

Can't wait until someone hacks the x86 version of Mac OS X to run on non-Mac. However, I suppose the biggest problem wouldn't be the "Mac-only" protection itself, it would be to find OS X drivers for your average PC hardware. Well, I suppose you could make many BSD drivers work under the x86 Darwin with little tweaking, but I might be wrong.

Can't wait, though. Triple boot PC! Or if a decent OpenSolaris distro comes out, tetra-boot! After that, no one on Slashdot can trash my OS anymore...

Re:OS X on a PC...

[mpontes]

Nope. I'll just ask them what OS are they running and reboot to that OS. The problem would be that I couldn't argue with a Linux Zealot and a MS Fanboy at the same time without having to reboot 30 times in a row...

with photos....

[kibbylow]

Wow! They showed us photos of a motherboard, a video card and a monitor displaying windows XP.... I've never seen that before!

Mirror of the MB image

[Anonymous Coward]

Square and greenish, there's a big circular fan hiding the CPU.
3 PCI slots, with one being used by the video card.
A few capacitors & ICs spread all over the place.
Oh it has a cell battery for the clock & bios, that's soo cool !
All in all, looks like a plain MB, hope the final version will look more flashy than that shit.

Re:Driver Support

[tezbobobo]

There is - you'll notice in the picture there is a fan within the case. Everyone knows that Apples run without a fan. I've never seen a windows box without a fan. That means when these macs eventually ship they will remove the fan, windows wont run and the machine will be maclocked.

Mod Parent Down!

[Luscious868]

How does stuff like this get modded +5 insightful? Are you people really that uninformed? Give me a break. I thought this was "News for Nerds". As if drivers for one SCSI card will work with another SCSI card from some other vendor? PCI is PCI regardless of the platform? That's the funniest crap I've read all day.

Is anyone listening?

[ImaLamer]

I keep screaming, but no one is listening...

That is the same exact same reason Linux will do so great on that new Apple hardware!!!!

fsck you Dvorak, you are a hack

Re:Leaks?

[slaker]

I prefer inpple, myself. :D

Re:OS X on a Dell

[Anonymous Coward]

Oh noes! I can't violate the DMCA while I'm infringing on someone's copyright!

Re:Strategy?

[BlowChunx]

Was it Ctrl-Alt-Delete? ...nah that gets you out of windows.

Re:Leaks?

[MarkGriz]

"I prefer inpple, myself. :D"

I think that's the breast one of all.

Re:Strategy?

[empaler]

...and BAM, you were in windows

Sounds like a horrible nightmare...

PPC

[tubbtubb]

And PowerPCs will have the Hypervisor so you can . . . Oh yeah, never mind.

Re:Leaks?

[Dylan Zimmerman]

Personally, I like PentiuMacs. Kind of like how Apple's dev lists are calling the versions of OS X that run on these Intel-based Macs "osx86".

Re:Leaks?

[wildsurf]

"I prefer inpple, myself. :D"

I think that's the breast one of all.

Funny, I think it sucks.