Emulate Mac OS X on PC?

[bleuiko]

Does anyone know what the deal is on this issue?

This is what i know so far... Mac OS 9.x and above requires PowerMac to run... this is something that no Mac emulators for PC has yet been able to achieve... that is why the highest OS that a PC can emulate is OS 8.x (it does not require a powermac rom)

An alternative to emulating a Mac Rom is to port OS X to Wintel machines... I don't know who is leading the development of this... this idea seems workable due to the fact that "Darwin", the core of Mac OS X, has already been ported over to the PC by Apple no less. Darwin is available for download from Apple... now all that is needed are some programmers to port the rest...

Anyone know if either method is being tried on? Anyone know anymore information about this subject? I've ran through a lot of links with google.com and I didn't get much information.

Keep me posted!

bleu

 

[FOBSIDE]

as far as i know, Mac OS X will NOT be ported to x86 machines. im glad actually. its designed especially for Apple hardware. plus Apple is a hardware company primarily and more power to them if they can get people to buy their hardware because of interest in OS X.

there is no emulator available to run Mac OS X and i doubt you will see one in the near future.

if youre that interested and are fortunate to have some extra spending money, i suggest you buy some Apple hardware. thats what i did. i was primarily a PC user before i bought my PowerBook to run OS X. i love it.

 

[bleuiko]

no, that's not what I meant... lol... although you are right that apple might just get a lot more $$ from releasing such a great OS... but then thing is... I think Macs are way too expensive for what they're worth... they're not THAT great (value/price ratio is way too high)... anyway... I know I can run OS X if I buy a mac... but I want to know if I could emulate it or port it =)

 

[Oli]

You can download Darwin (the core X OS) from the apple site. Work fine on the PC, but it's a unix system without graphics interface, they're going to release an Xfree based graphics interface soon.

 

[Valhalla1]

i think apple should ditch the hardware, and start writing OS's for PC.. I'd love to play with OS X but i would never pay for friggin' mac hardware.

if they got their sh.it together they might make more legit competitor to microsoft

 

[FOBSIDE]

before i start this reply, i am in no way a Wintel hater or a Mac zealot. i love both my Apple and my Intel tower. the reason im backing up Apple on this post is because i think its getting torn apart without real reason. i defend Windows in the same way in Mac forums.



<< no, that's not what I meant... lol... although you are right that apple might just get a lot more $$ from releasing such a great OS... but then thing is... I think Macs are way too expensive for what they're worth... they're not THAT great (value/price ratio is way too high)... anyway... I know I can run OS X if I buy a mac... but I want to know if I could emulate it or port it =) >>



value/price ratio isnt bad at all actually. consider the software packaged with any Apple machine. even the OS is cheaper than any windows OS. of course most of us dont pay for software huh?



<< i think apple should ditch the hardware, and start writing OS's for PC.. I'd love to play with OS X but i would never pay for friggin' mac hardware.

if they got their sh.it together they might make more legit competitor to microsoft >>



Apple will never ditch hardware. thats part of what makes them Apple. they write the software for the hardware. OS X is written to take advantage of their processor. iPod is meant to take advantage of iTunes. even if they started writing OS's for microsoft, they could never compete. microsoft is fine with Apple in the market. Apple gets its small market share and microsoft packages IE and sells office for those machines.

consider an iMac. the 700MHz PowerPC G4 iMac runs the equivalent of...oh lets give it the benefit of the doubt...1.2 Ghz P4. buy a Wintel machine with that processor and flat panel monitor for 1300, with an OS, with a video editing tool as powerful as iMovie, with a DVD player, and with a photo tool as powerful as iPhoto. what you get isnt bad at all. if you really need total power then Wintel machines are your thing because the Mhz gap is still more than the G4 processors can manage. but if youre not a high end user, Apple hardware is powerful and it comes packed with a whole lot of great software.