OT: Mac OSX

Kevin Brown kevin_brown at qwest.net
Sat Mar 25 18:41:26 MST 2006


>> I know everyone is currently obsessing with getting Windows to run
>> on a new mac, but has anyone made the new Mac OSX (10.4  I think)
>> run on a standard intel pc?
>> 
>> I wouldn't buy a mac to run windows, though I would consider buying
>>  OSX to run on my intel laptop...

> I do not think that would work as the Mac boots without a BIOS. Also 
> many driver issues are a problem

And yet WinXP doesn't boot off of EFI and yet you can boot it on the
MacBook Pro systems.  That is a minor roadblock, not a show stopper. 
The bootloader could just fake the output from EFI on BIOS systems to 
get OSX running on any x86 system.


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