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Apple Leopard now runs on a PC!!!

Originally posted by: AnitaPeterson
OK, folks... this could be a bad day for Microsoft.

Leopard is confirmed to run on (selected) PCs, thanks to the tireless hackers at DailyApps.net

http://dailyapps.net/2007/10/h...ur-pc-in-3-easy-steps/
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Running OS X on non-Apple x86 hardware has been possible for quite a while now.

Yes, with the release of Leopard, the process has been made easier.

I don't think MS has to even blink when confronted with this though...who is going to run and benefit from a hacked, unsupportable OS? Your average PC user? Businesses? No. People who probably don't pay for their OSes anyways (I'm talking pirates here, not Linux users before anyone gets in a huff)? More likely.
 
From my original link:
"More Patched DVD?s from Uphuck, Netkas is [sic!] in the works so it would be better if you wait for the polished releases to come out"

This sounds like another job for Retestrak - or someone else working along the same lines.
 
Originally posted by: loup garou
Originally posted by: AnitaPeterson
OK, folks... this could be a bad day for Microsoft.

Leopard is confirmed to run on (selected) PCs, thanks to the tireless hackers at DailyApps.net

http://dailyapps.net/2007/10/h...ur-pc-in-3-easy-steps/
Click to expand...
Running OS X on non-Apple x86 hardware has been possible for quite a while now.

Yes, with the release of Leopard, the process has been made easier.

I don't think MS has to even blink when confronted with this though...who is going to run and benefit from a hacked, unsupportable OS? Your average PC user? Businesses? No. People who probably don't pay for their OSes anyways? More likely.
Click to expand...

:thumbsup: Exactly. Microsoft's bread and butter are corporate and average home users. The techies who would do something like this make up a very small % of the market. Chances are those people are running an illegal copy of XP or Vista or running an alternative OS already.
 
For someone with a laptop with very similar specs to a macbook, etc, such as a gma945 chipset, this could be pretty neat. But I could see some driver nightmares for a lot of other folks.

So what does the Apple EULA say about this? Anything? Would it be legal to buy Leopard at a store and then use this method to install it on a PC?

 
I'll consider it down the line - formatting and reinstalling Vista was less painful than I expected (I blame ASUS on this one) ... next time I could redo the full thing and run this to experiment.
 
Originally posted by: loup garou
Originally posted by: AnitaPeterson
OK, folks... this could be a bad day for Microsoft.

Leopard is confirmed to run on (selected) PCs, thanks to the tireless hackers at DailyApps.net

http://dailyapps.net/2007/10/h...ur-pc-in-3-easy-steps/
Click to expand...
Running OS X on non-Apple x86 hardware has been possible for quite a while now.

Yes, with the release of Leopard, the process has been made easier.

I don't think MS has to even blink when confronted with this though...who is going to run and benefit from a hacked, unsupportable OS? Your average PC user? Businesses? No. People who probably don't pay for their OSes anyways (I'm talking pirates here, not Linux users before anyone gets in a huff)? More likely.
Click to expand...

Maybe Steve Jobs will take note of how popular Leopard is and release it in a form that can install on any machine instead of having to buy Mac hardware.
 
Originally posted by: rudder
Originally posted by: loup garou
Originally posted by: AnitaPeterson
OK, folks... this could be a bad day for Microsoft.

Leopard is confirmed to run on (selected) PCs, thanks to the tireless hackers at DailyApps.net

http://dailyapps.net/2007/10/h...ur-pc-in-3-easy-steps/
Click to expand...
Running OS X on non-Apple x86 hardware has been possible for quite a while now.

Yes, with the release of Leopard, the process has been made easier.

I don't think MS has to even blink when confronted with this though...who is going to run and benefit from a hacked, unsupportable OS? Your average PC user? Businesses? No. People who probably don't pay for their OSes anyways (I'm talking pirates here, not Linux users before anyone gets in a huff)? More likely.
Click to expand...

Maybe Steve Jobs will take note of how popular Leopard is and release it in a form that can install on any machine instead of having to buy Mac hardware.
Click to expand...

Don't hold your breath.
 
Originally posted by: rudder
Originally posted by: loup garou
Originally posted by: AnitaPeterson
OK, folks... this could be a bad day for Microsoft.

Leopard is confirmed to run on (selected) PCs, thanks to the tireless hackers at DailyApps.net

http://dailyapps.net/2007/10/h...ur-pc-in-3-easy-steps/
Click to expand...
Running OS X on non-Apple x86 hardware has been possible for quite a while now.

Yes, with the release of Leopard, the process has been made easier.

I don't think MS has to even blink when confronted with this though...who is going to run and benefit from a hacked, unsupportable OS? Your average PC user? Businesses? No. People who probably don't pay for their OSes anyways (I'm talking pirates here, not Linux users before anyone gets in a huff)? More likely.
Click to expand...

Maybe Steve Jobs will take note of how popular Leopard is and release it in a form that can install on any machine instead of having to buy Mac hardware.
Click to expand...

Not going to happen. Making it possible to install on 'any machine' would me a lot more time in development and testing.
 
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