The slippery slope - XP running on a Mac

[FourWheelDrift]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology

bbc said:

Hackers have managed to get Microsoft's Windows XP operating system running on an Apple Mac computer. The success ends a competition started to see if the feat was even possible when Apple unveiled computers that used Intel chips. The pair who managed the feat won $13,854 (£7,895) in prize money for their trouble. The software used to put Windows on the Mac is now being circulated so others can try to replicate the success.

"All your base are belong to us".





>> Edited by FourWheelDrift on Friday 17th March 22:34

[aldi]

Looks like a mac is going to be the machine of choice in the future... next question is how long till OSX is running on a PC?

[agent006]

It's almost getting to the point it could've been at if apple had licensed their hardware and software for 3rd party distribution in the beginning. Proper cross platform interoperathingily.

[tinman0]

i'm sure these guys have got it the wrong wway round - we want MacOS running on normal PCs, not XP running on Macs duh.



as a guess, i reckon the reason for the competition was to over come the dual booting problem.

[aldi]

OSX is unix based right...? Surely its only a matter of time then since there are so many unix & linux variants on PC's allready until some kind of PC/OSX hybrid is ripped together, or am I missing something? Having said that, Mac cases are much nicer

[Don]

What this means is that a Mac is just a PC. A nice, groovy looking, nicely designed PC.

I hope this works for Apple. Its good to have some competition out there....even if I never have bought one.

[Mr Beckerman]

aldi said:

Looks like a mac is going to be the machine of choice in the future... next question is how long till OSX is running on a PC?

Was using a Dell running OS X last week. Guy in one of our Uni departments has managed to get it working. Required quite a lot of hacking of the BIOS apparently, but it definitely works.

[Andy M]

Those running OS X on non-Apple hardware are most probably using the first developer seed Apple released. Available to download via torrent or P2P for quite some time now.

Supposedly Apple have now fixed this.

Don said:

What this means is that a Mac is just a PC. A nice, groovy looking, nicely designed PC.

When's it been anything else?

XP on a Mac

Hopefully Apple will rectify this asap.

[roop]

FourWheelDrift said:

"All your base are belong to us".

[Mr Beckerman]

Andy M said:

XP on a Mac Hopefully Apple will rectify this asap.

Indeed. Some things are sacred, after all.

[agent006]

Andy M said:

Hopefully Apple will rectify this asap.

Yes, by taking it above board and selling an official PC copy of OS X, and vice versa. they'd make a killing both figuratively and financially.

[k77-widow maker]

With the aid of VM ware, i've put a mac o/s on a notebook

[Andy M]

Those of you who have put OS X on your pc's (non-Apple), what do you think of it? Are you tempted to 'switch'?

[Bodo]

OS X's kernel is available for x86 platforms from Apple's website; long before Apple released plans about using Intel hardware http://developer.apple.com/opensource

What's the point of using Macintosh without the hardware it comes with anyway? Isn't it the core strategy from Apple to guarantee driver stability for dedicated components rather than letting 3rd party manufacturers supply unapproved system critical software?

[tinman0]

Bodo said:

What's the point of using Macintosh without the hardware it comes with anyway?

stuff the hardware, if OSX came on a disk for my pc, XP would be history in as long as it took to insert the install disk and reboot.

[agent006]

Bodo said:

Isn't it the core strategy from Apple to guarantee driver stability for dedicated components rather than letting 3rd party manufacturers supply unapproved system critical software?

The core strategy from apple is to keep a stragle hold on the OS and hardware manufacture for their platform. Money is their motivation.

[Bodo]

agent006 said:

The core strategy from apple is to keep a stragle hold on the OS and hardware manufacture for their platform.

Could you elaborate please?

[mindgam3]

Don said:

A nice, groovy looking, nicely designed PC.

You forgot ludicrously overpriced :P

[Marki]

aldi said:

Looks like a mac is going to be the machine of choice in the future...

Why ?

[Mr Beckerman]

mindgam3 said:

You forgot ludicrously overpriced :P

We actually find the cost of ownership in the education environment much much cheaper than a PC. The thing with our Mac's is that they last a lot longer, being able to run the latest OS, without upgrades, whereas our PC's (not shabby spec either) start to struggle after 2 years and after 3 years are on their knees. The older Mac's are actually getting faster as the OS becomes more and more optimised.