Posted on 03/24/2006 4:53:26 PM PST by Vermonter
Hackers boot a Dell with Mac OS X (Intel). March 24, 2006 -- Unidentified programmers have hacked the Intel version of Mac OS X to enable it to boot a Dell PC. A file called the "JaS4.2b patch" can be used to create a customized installer DVD for installing on a Dell PC.
A website called MacaDell describes the patch. The MacDell site has also has a page that describes how to use the JaS4.2b patch to create a customized installer disc for Mac OS X.
Using the hack is illegal because it breaks Apple’s Mac OS X license agreement, which specifies that the operating system be run on an “Apple-labeled computer.”
According to MacaDell, work on the hack began when a Russian hacker known as Maxxuss cracked the encrypted security layer in Mac OS X that usually requires the software to be installed on a certain Mac model. Other hackers added to the work, and a programmer known as JaS put the work together in the JaS4.2b patch.
The hack emulates the EFI boot firmware found in Intel-based Macs. It also emulates an instruction set called SSE3 in order to support processors older than the Dual Core used in the Intel Macs. MacaDell reports that the hack doesn’t work on every computer, and doesn’t support some functions, such as wireless networking and certain audio and video cards.
At this point, the Intel version of Mac OS X is only available with the purchase of an Intel-based Mac.
Read this thread, it's state a few times about the drivers being almost the same.
You said -- "I am stating facts, you are stating opinions, it is a fact that Intel and ATI use the same drivers in their hardware for both the PC and Apple computers."
And here is where you'll never make a "Steve Jobs" -- like "Does anybody care?"
Absolutely not.
You're wasting your breath and getting nowhere. People buy the machines to do things with them. Steve Jobs figured out that there were more "normal consumers" out there who wanted to "do something" with their lives -- instead of put together a bunch of wires and watch bits and bytes move from one place to the next, and get a "yuk-yuk" when their computer went "beep" at the right time.
Oh, my..., what a shock... they really want to "do something" with that computer.
Keep talking like anyone cares.... blah, blah, blah...
I'm going to "do something" with my computer.... Keep digging around in the tech-trivia; they might get a TV show going one of these days...
And in case you *still* haven't figured it out yet -- get it through your head -- Apple will never let the OS X go on a junk-parts PC box. They've already shut down a board or web site, they keep putting up roadblocks and they'll do whatever it takes to stop that dead in its tracks. Now that is really going to *instill confidence* in some consumer, like -- "I really want that now -- since Apple is sabotaging it six ways to Sunday!" Get real.
What Apple does allow is Windows running on an Apple box. That's where the market is going to be at. Focus on that and you might be living in the *real world* for a change.
Regards,
Star Traveler
You're not even posting about what I stated on drivers, instead you continue to post drival.
You're like a child who bends to peer pressure and attacks anyone who doesn't.
You're taking my statements on driver personally, for what reasons I did not know. But you really need to calm down.
If that was really true, all those "browser-only" appliances would have taken off. Redmond and other tech co's have tried to migrate their tools to browsers and so for it hasn't worked. Rumors about Google OS have been circulating.
Most organizations have a suite of productivity, engineering, financial, graphics design, and yes....browsers.
Operating systems DO matter!
"...almost the same" is a pretty damn big loophole.
By that standard, a Pinto and a 7-series BMW are almost the same: passengers inside a steel cab, left-hand drive, rear-wheel drive, internal combustion, four-wheeled, gasoline-burning, automatic transmission, safety-glass, headlight-and-turnsignal-equipped; speedometer-equipped, etc. etc. etc.
You said -- "You're like a child who bends to peer pressure and attacks anyone who doesn't."
It's simply totally irrelevent drivel -- when compared to what the mass of people out in the market want. They don't care; they wouldn't listen to you for 15 seconds.
They would simply ask, "Where does my camera go and how do I play the music and where do I write my e-mail?"
It's simply totally irrelevent -- as if that's going to sell a single computer to a granny or a kid in high-school -- or even to my own daughter.
You're just out of touch, that's all -- so wrapped up in the tech world that you don't know what normal people do.
Regards,
Star Traveler
I like to take the covers off old hard drives, power them up (MFM drives spin up without any controller). Then shoot them. I find particular pleasure shooting drives with Netmare on them (yes I carry the packrat gene).
Old drives are getting harder to find.
You said -- "But you really need to calm down."
A follow-up here -- it's just like what's going on with me right now.
I just hooked up an Airport Extreme and am having fun with that. I've been using the WiFi all over the place and have a couple of national accounts (to use when I'm running all over the country) -- but it's nice to have it at your own place, too.
So, having fun with it and getting it to do what I want is more important than figuring out where this bit or that byte went or what driver is here versus who is using it over there -- like that's gonna do anything for me at all. I figure that the people who made this stuff better darned well take care of that idiotic stuff -- because I don't want to hear about it.
All I want is something that works and works right and works all the time and works elegantly. And, the nice thing about it -- is -- I've got it.
So you track your drivers and your bits and bytes -- I'm out cruising the net and doing a big of war-driving once in a while. I'm now trying to get my GPS working with the WiFi in a nice way. That's more what I like doing.
And that's what the mass of people out there want to do -- just to get things done that they want personally. Forget the drivers, forget "this doesn't work with that", forget reading that 800-page manual, forget... well, you get it.
Take it out of the box, plug it in -- it works. That's the trademark of Apple. Call it anything you want -- but Apple's got it.
Regards,
Star Traveler
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Funny, so did Wang.
LOL! you have no idea what you're talking about. Have ever heard of the enthusiast market? Maybe you should do some research.
That's one thing about Steve Jobs -- he knows where the market is at.
Yep Jobs is good at one thing, cornering 3% of the market and holding on for dear life! LOL
after reading some of your post I now don't care to run OS X on my PC. Tell Jobs he lost a sale. LOL
Now why in the heck would anyone want to run Mac software on a PC? For that matter, why would anyone want to run a Mac anywhere?
Where have you been for the past 6 years?! MicroSoft Word and Excel already run inside IE6. Adobe's Acrobat runs on just about every browser, too.
None of those on-line aps care about your OS.
Caring about the OS is old school. It's the browser that matters now and in the future...because people spend most of their time on-line rather than in stand-alone programs.
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