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Can you run OS X on a pc?

Name: Cobra_R
Date: June 20, 2006 at 22:56:43 Pacific
OS: Windows XP Pro
CPU/Ram: AMD Athlon X2 4200+/2GB
Product: Custom

Comment:

Will you be able to run OS X on a pc when Intel's Core Duo 2 is released as well considering Macs uses Intel Core Duo on their new Mac's? AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ OC 2.7ghz 2GB Dual Channel DDR 3200 Nvidia 7800GT SATA II 2x 200gig 7200rpm 16mb cache RAID-0 Gigabyte Nforce 4 SLI

Name: jackbomb
Date: June 20, 2006 at 23:56:23 Pacific

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Not officially, but I'm pretty sure that computer geeks with way too much time on their hands will find a way to do it.

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MAC's do not use BIOS calls like X86 based O/Ses, therefore you will require an emulation layer to create a bootable environment...

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Mac OS X can be installed on a commodity PC; but full hardware compatibility is a different story. It's not legal though. http://geektechnique.org/index.php?id=285

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