Posted on 02/15/2006 10:59:49 AM PST by ShadowAce
A utility has been released that will allow the Intel-oriented version of Apple's Mac OS X operating systems to be run on machines other than the company's own iMac and MacBook Pro. However, the coder behind the patch, Maxxuss, warned that the software is a work in progress and that there's "still a lot of work to do".
That said, for folk who like to "play around", he said, the software will help them get started. The code requires a computer with an SSE3-supporting processor. It also appears geared toward set-ups in which Mac OS X is run alongside another operating system using virtualisation software like VMWare.
The patch contains a modified version of the mach kernel that bypasses the systems Apple has put in place to try and prevent this kind of thing from happening. It also requires the Mac OS X 10.4 DVD bundled with Intel-based iMacs and, soon, MacBook Pros.
Clearly, installing the operating system when you don't own the disc is illegal, and the process almost certainly violates Apple's end-user licence agreement. Just for good measure, the patch's "decrypted system files" probably infringe the notorious Digital Millenium Copyright Act and its European equivalent, the EU Copyright Directive. Future Mac OS X updates may break the patch. You have been warned.
Anyone willing to proceed in such circumstances faces plenty of typing into the command line to attempt to get the OS to install and, ultimately, to boot. ®
Apple Ping
One OS to bind them all.........
If I don't understand what this is talking about, I shouldn't try this at home?
You can if you want a box of useless electronics.
Here is what I got from Wikipedia on the SSE3
CPUs with SSE3
* AMD:
o Athlon 64 (since Venice Stepping E3 and San Diego Stepping E4)
o Athlon 64 X2
o Athlon 64 FX (since San Diego Stepping E4)
o Opteron (since Stepping E4)
o Sempron (since Palermo Stepping E3)
o Turion 64
* Intel:
o Celeron D
o Pentium 4 (since Prescott)
o Intel Core
o Xeon (since Nocona)
* VIA/Centaur:
o C7
* Transmeta
o Efficeon TM88xx (NOT Model Numbers TM86xx)
I have long thought Mac was stupid not to sell their OS seperate from propriatary hardware anyway...It is one of the primry reasons why Windows has long been kicking their tails in sales.
Mind you I am a Windows man myself..but I might actually tempted in buying MACOS for fun if I didnt have to buy their stupid overpriced hardware too.
I thought that was supposed to be Micro$loth? Steve Jobs should be careful. He is making a deal for more power, "... and Gates does not share power."
Eventually we'll have a universal OS that will run anything on anything..........just needs more memory..........
There, I made you seem less stupid emotional.
If your CPU is more than a year old it probably doesn't support SSE3.
BTW, on a related subject, A friend of my wife's Windows 2000 based computer is now useless because somehow it got the Password Protection activated. She says she's had the computer for a couple years and never had a password. Now it will not allow her access no matter what she does. I told her she might have a virus and might have to erase the hard drive and start over like new. Any help for the lady? She's about 70 and doesn't understand a lot about computers..........
Well, nothing I can do remotely--especially if she doesn't know a lot.
Sorry.
This is something for guys who want to screw around under the hood and have lots of spare time. Possible? Yep. Something you want to depend upon when quarterly reports are due? Nope.
Apologies to Prysson, but your response had me laughing.
All in good fun.
An OS password, or a BIOS-level password? Can't really help you with either, but there is a difference. A BIOS-level password isn't going to be fixed by reinstalling the OS or erasing the drive-- it's doubtful you could get to a position to do it anyway.
If it is a BIOS password, someone smarter than me might be able to tell you how to reset the BIOS.
you just push the reset CMOS button on the computer for 10 seconds after unplugging it, wherever that is, sometimes you have to move a jumper on the motherboard to do it.
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