Mac OS X Running on Non-Apple Hardware

MacBeliever writes "Inevitably, Mac OS X for x86 has been hacked to run on a non-Apple PC. Is this the beginning of the fulfillment of the Dvorak prophecy?" RetrogradeMotion also writes "The OSx86 Project has posted a how-to guide telling how to run OS X on any Windows or Linux-based PC using VMWare." Not 100% corroborated, so ingest with salt.

Hey look, the Apple legal team!

[richdun]

Wonder what they're up to today?

Press 1 to Install, 2 to Update, 3 to go "WOOT"

[TsukasaZero]

Garage Band at my finger tips....

Salt?

[BigZaphod]

Putting salt on my monitor didn't make the terrible shock I got while trying to ingest this any better. Did I do something wrong?

Hardware Hack Required!

[FlameTroll]

Ya have to duct tape the mouse buttons together...

For the love of all that is holy..

[Anonymous Coward]

..please never, ever use Dvorak and Prophecy in the same phrase again.

Key + Lock

[Nom du Keyboard]

Here is the key (OS-X86)
Here is the lock (Dell)
Take as long as you want with them.

YOU DID WHAT?!?!?!

torrents...anyone?

[bogaboga]

Where can one grab the Mac OSX torrents? I need to try this out.

Re:Hardware Hack Required!

[Epistax]

That's much easier! Here I was, chopping off people's middle fingers...

Slashdotted

[Anonymous Coward]

I think their website is running on OS X on VMWare.

Re:MS better watch their back

[Anonymous Coward]

Oh boy. You should try it the other way. You'd be hairless by 30.

Re:For the love of all that is holy..

[pixelated77]

Come on! This was the guy that in years past thought that

a) Microsoft would ship a hard drive full of MS Software (you have to go waaaaay back, when PCMag was still a thick magazine)
b) Email would become as slow as snail-mail
c) That the Internet would die a fiery death at least a half-dozen times

His wisdom is peerless and his insights bordering on omiscient.

Re:Random thoughts on Apple

[Anonymous Coward]

Apple machines are so quiet because of his own personal hatred of ambient noise

funny - I thought it was the liquid cooling that did the trick.

Re:everybody, lower your heart rate. except me.

[Elwood P Dowd]

Calm down, people.

Iduno, man. I read the post, and I browsed the older comments at -1, and I really don't see too many people going batshit fucking loco. Just you.

So relax.

Disclaimer: I just switched to Windows at home. It's the bomb.

Re:Random thoughts on Apple

[Maserati]

Just to be politically incorrect for a moment....

Would it benefit Ferrari in the long run to have every ghetto curb filled with Ferrari's?

It seems to be working for BMW and Mercedes :-)

Re:Random thoughts on Apple

[Fussen]

I totally agree. Fake wood inlays on the dashboard are critical to the overall functioning of the vehicle.

Re:Random thoughts on Apple

[Anonymous Coward]

I thought MAcs used standard AGP slots? SO ok they still need mac drivers (will linux ones work on OSX? dunno - just askin the Q)

Dude, you need to ask for a new keyboard for your next birthday -- your shift key keeps sticking on and off, and sometimes the whole thing just stops recognizing keypresses.

Either that or your "linux ones" are a little screwy. ;)

Re: Funniest comment I've read all week

[tigris]

Damn it, I never have mod points when I need them.

"Holy F!@king 5h17!"

[mnemonic_]

You know, you're allowed to swear on slashdot. Here, watch: fuck, shit. See? The worst you might experience is a down-modding. It's not so bad.

Re:Random thoughts on Apple

[pete_townshend]

Nope, it's a little known fact, but in addition to the Reality Distortion Field, Jobs also emits particles of pure hate, materialized into existence by his loathing of ambient noise and ginormous ego. These particles, called "hatrons", produce a sort of white noise effect when interacting with Apple-brand computers and make them run quite silently.

Re:For the love of all that is holy..

[twocents]

Agreed! And I would add that even quoting Dvorak should be kept to a bare minimum.

i'm sorry, what was that?

[durangotang]

" IE supports everything."

I cannot believe that I am seeing these letters strung together into these words, thus formlating this sentence.

I hereby discredid any utterance that you manage to put forth!

Shame on you!

:-)

Re:PLEASE don't credit this to Dvorak....

[Molecular Mechanic]

The word "prohecy" really bugs me, too.

Look! On topic!

[SPY_jmr1]

You're new here, aren't you?

Re:Random thoughts on Apple

[jav1231]

You lost me at "the stability of XP."

Re:Random thoughts on Apple

[ryanov]

They make sure to whip their slave laborers a bit harder than those of the competing factories. That's the Nike difference! <swoosh>

Re:Random thoughts on Apple

[Anonymous Coward]

No, it's like omfg stfu already vs. omfg stfu right now.

Re:Random thoughts on Apple

[dustmite]

I don't think I've *ever* gotten a blue screen.

Of course not: Go to Start/Control Panel/System/Advanced, click "Settings" under "Startup and Recovery", then under "System Failure" uncheck "Automatically restart". Voila, you'll have blue screens again ;)