Video showing Mac OS X booting on an x86 machine

[badlogic]

I wouldnt doubt they made it hackable just to see the response it got from the x86 crowd. kinda like a test market to see if it would be profitable for them to compete directly with Microsoft's OS

 

[Eug]

Video 1: Bootup on a Celeron 2.0 on a VIA board

Video 2: Responsiveness on a Celeron 2.0

 

[Josh64FX]

Originally posted by: Eug
Video 1: Bootup on a Celeron 2.0 on a VIA board

Video 2: Responsiveness on a Celeron 2.0

Links are down..

 

[The Linuxator]

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey

Originally posted by: wkinney
Why are they locking it to apple specific hardware when they release it? The amount of money they would make in licensing the software on all x86 platforms would so much more than any money they will get from hardware sales of their systems.

The whole world did not switch to apple hardware for their osx before, why would they now? because intel will give them faster machines? I don't think so.

Because we don't want to spend $500 on the OS alone.

 

[Eug]

Originally posted by: Josh64FX

Originally posted by: Eug
Video 1: Bootup on a Celeron 2.0 on a VIA board

Video 2: Responsiveness on a Celeron 2.0

Links are down..

Yes indeed. It was working for a few hours, and then I guess the bandwidth was too much...

Basically, the responsiveness video showed them playing the Cars QuickTime movie trailer and surfing in the background, and opening and closing windows with the Genie effect, with no lags. Not a huge deal, but at least it shows that even on a Celeron 2.0, Mac OS X x86 works well enough.