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Running Mac OS X On Standard PCs
ZDOne writes "ZDNet's reviews team have been tinkering with the various ways of running OS X on standard PCs. They found that with the right hardware components, a standard PC running Mac OS X Leopard is, at first sight, no different from a genuine Apple Mac. Special CPU extensions such as Intel VT-x provide support for software solutions like Parallels Desktop for Mac. Even Adobe Photoshop, which queries a Mac to verify its authenticity, runs fine on a standard PC thanks to EFI emulation.
However the article points out that it's a pretty technical proposition to get OS X running on non-Apple hardware, beyond all but the most powerful power users. And then there is the legal question. Don't even think about trying to put OS X on your PC without first purchasing a legitimate copy of Mac OS Leopard."
Don't even think about trying to put OS X on your PC without first purchasing a legitimate copy of Mac OS Leopard.
Why would that even matter? You're breaking the EULA, so you're stealing the software anyway.
Please enlighten us as to what it is that Macs do better. Video framerates and cpu crunching, plus memory banwidth/speed are pretty good performance benchmarks, especially between very very similar systems.
Pray tell us how the performance of genuine Mac hardware "just feels better" and has magic imbued only by the tender kiss of Steve Jobs.
It's obvious you are enjoying the Apple product then, hey?
How about supporting the company with purchasing the product from Apple.
Oh thats right, your one of those who thinks cause it's too expensive to buy, your entitled to steal it instead of paying for it.
It's left blank because I have nothing to say to you punks!
Now all you need is some cardboard and some sticky back plastic
to make a 1 button mouse
and your all set
Someone needs pointers for shopping. I just bought an 8 core 3.2GHz MacPro for under $4,100 U.S. (about Eur 2650). Just buy the refurbs, fool. If you can't get them in Europe, tough luck but nobody wants to hear your whining.
And are you seriously comparing the Eee PC with a MacBook Pro? GIMMEAFUCKINGBREAK! Jackass.
Popular Mechanics is probably perpetrating "same specs" fallacy.
MacPros are the only line of desktop Macs that come with expansion slots.
In order to get the single expansion slot that might come in some of the
machines that compete directly with mini's you will need to start off paying
a minimum of $2700.
A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.
Stay out of my fucking country you pinko socialist commie snail eating fuckers. Keep your smelly Euros out of my exchanges. Got you fucks make me sick with your little clown cars and your dirty smelly cesspool cities. Coming back to the US after spending some time in Europe is like coming back to the Promised Land. It's that much of a difference. I can't believe what I hear people going on about how great Europe is. I've been there and compared to over hear, it just plain sucks. Please keep your "culture" and your Euros and your smelly unwashed, underoderized bodies where they belong. In the aptly named "old world."
I will give you credit though, the only thing good ever to come out of Europe, other than the Nina the Pinta and the Santa Maria, is Linux. I use it religiously for less serious stuff. Of course, all of my servers run BSD which is far superior. Imagine that, BSD, completely home-grown, and with a far smaller community, still outclasses Linux in practically every way other than pussy stuff like driver support and Luser friendliness. And furthermore, Linux would be nothing without GNU. Yes, you can thank the good old USA for that as well. Almost brings a tear to my eye.
Yes, when I but when I buy a computer from an American company, and call tech support as an American, its nice to get an English speaking AMERICAN tech person. Its pleasant. It lets me know that when my job went to India, some of them stayed here. "Unless you're actually an Indian from Bangalore." I suspect if you do call tech support as an Indian in India that is exactly what you get.
I've gotten the USA every time. "I asked" But I live in Minnesota, we are practically Canadians anyway. Think of us as Canadians with guns.