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MAC OS on a PC
Name: anarchy305 Date: September 9, 2006 at 01:51:20 Pacific OS: WinXP Pro CPU/Ram: Pentium M 1.7Ghz / 512MB Product: Gateway
Comment:
Hello,
I would like to know if it is possible that I install the MAC OS on my PC. I have 2 partitions. One with XP and the other with nothing on it.
Until I have the cash to get a MAC I want to play around with the OS. So is it possible to do this with a dual boot?
I am aware of Virtual PC already but would rather OS X on the other partition.
Name: anarchy305 Date: September 9, 2006 at 09:20:20 Pacific
Reply:
This is an emulator like Virtual PC.
My question is if it is possible to run the MAC OS on a seperate primary parition and do a dual boot on my PC?
Thanks
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Response Number 3
Name: dosser Date: September 9, 2006 at 11:03:27 Pacific
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NO it is not feasible as the architecture of the O/S is different, therefore MAC OS will not recognise the hardware components because it requires a boot rom NOT a BIOS
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Response Number 4
Name: anarchy305 Date: September 9, 2006 at 17:39:50 Pacific
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Ah ok. Thanks for the help.
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Response Number 5
Name: dodger88 Date: September 22, 2006 at 12:40:35 Pacific
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Mac OS X Tiger x86 (AKA Mac OS X Tiger for Intel/AMD CPUs)
It is illigal to even have the x86 version of os x installed on a PC. But it is the only way to dual boot it. It would run much faster than on PearPC.
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