Patch posted to run Mac OS X 10.4.4 on 'generic PC'

The Register ^ | 15 February 2006 | Tony Smith

[ShadowAce]

I knew it would just be a matter of time....

[ShadowAce]

[ShadowAce]

Apple Ping

[Red Badger]

One OS to bind them all.........

[HEY4QDEMS]

Win XP 64 is supposed to be compatible with intel dual core architecture.

I'm sure that there will be lots of hacks available to run the new Mac OS on PCs and visa versa.

[B-bone]

... The code requires a computer with an SSE3-supporting processor...

If I don't understand what this is talking about, I shouldn't try this at home?

[Keith in Iowa]

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.

[lormand]

Good question, which I don't know either.

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)

[Prysson]

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.

[The_Victor]

One OS to bind them all.........

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."

[Red Badger]

Eventually we'll have a universal OS that will run anything on anything..........just needs more memory..........

[SlowBoat407]

I have long thought Mac was stupid unwise 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 (IMHO) overpriced hardware too.

There, I made you seem less stupid emotional.

[Mount Athos]

If your CPU is more than a year old it probably doesn't support SSE3.

[Red Badger]

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..........

[ShadowAce]

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.

[Richard Kimball]

Ah, the beginning of wisdom, grasshopper is to know what you do not know.

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.

[Egon]

There, I made you seem less stupid emotional.

Apologies to Prysson, but your response had me laughing.

[SlowBoat407]

All in good fun.

[Egon]

...A friend of my wife's Windows 2000 based computer is now useless because somehow it got the Password Protection activated.

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.

[Mount Athos]

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.