Ha! And you're complaining about OS's, something that doesn't even matter in the modern age of browsers.
Get with the future. Leave your past behind.
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.
And you are still working on OS9... as you have admitted many times before in your rants... so your comments are irrelevant.
Now you are complaining about an antique product circa 1998... irrelelavant.
Ha! And you're complaining about OS's, something that doesn't even matter in the modern age of browsers.
Get with the future. Leave your past behind.
Enthusiast market is only one market, the overall PC market is much larger than Apple, why not branch out and make the money when you can?
You said -- "you sound like you're in love with Steve Jobs, Bill Gates is a better business man than he is."
Are you still here? I thought you were packing and moving to Cupertino, to advise Steve Jobs about how to make some more money.
Oh... wait a minute, I remember now -- you aren't going to buy Mac OS X any longer -- thanks to me. Don't tell Steve that I screwed up his next millions....
Regards,
Star Traveler
"Apple needs to win over PC converts and forcing them to use their hardware isn't working."
One thing about FReepers when it comes to economics or business stuck on stupid is the right term.
Check out Apples 10-Q, then tell me what the rev would be without hardware you dolt.
Yep, I guess if i want to run Linux I will just have get one of the free distros. Jobs isn't interested in making money for his his share holders.
"mighty Microsoft Megalith has failed."
The problem with MSFT is that when you only have $5 billion to spend on a project that should take $5 million you are bound to run into delays and bugs.
Yea, because someone can't make money selling software...
"Yes, and Apple could be putting OS X on 1/2 those Dell's if they wanted to..."
One of the more idiotic FReeper comments I have read.
Has Half-life 2 been ported to Mac yet? I'd like to see that run on a mac-mini LOL
yea, because making money is stupid.
"But I and many other people choose to assemble our own computers, because we want the best hardware that we can get and not some crappy stuff that Dell or Apple try to force on us. Some of us like to have options."
Who gives a crap? Macs are great.
LOL! whats so great about them? Can they play Half-life 2, Doom III or any of the new games? I can do anything a mac does with a PC, Macs hardware is subpar. Look at the video cards they are using its like last generation.
Why not make MORE money?
Knock off the personal attacks
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