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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