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Name: Nakasuhito
Date: May 27, 2003 at 06:15:26 Pacific
OS: WinXP
CPU/Ram: gahag!
Comment:

i know this might sound stupid, but i was wonder if i install OS X on my PC...would it work or it needs some kind of special s--- like gnomes and stuff?



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Response Number 1
Name: Wycke
Date: May 27, 2003 at 12:36:31 Pacific
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No, it won't work.


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Response Number 2
Name: supp0rt
Date: May 27, 2003 at 19:05:02 Pacific
Reply:

Correction: No, it won't work ... yet!

Darwin (the core of OS X) is coming to Intel machines. See http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/235 for details.


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Response Number 3
Name: the pickle
Date: May 27, 2003 at 20:00:00 Pacific
Reply:

That's not OS X.

p


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Response Number 4
Name: Bobthearch
Date: May 27, 2003 at 20:19:15 Pacific
Reply:

Apple will never release a Mac OS for the PC. If you want to use OSX you have to buy their hardware. That's the basis of their business.

The converse is also true; if you want to use Apple hardware, you have to run/buy Mac software.


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Response Number 5
Name: robert ivy
Date: May 27, 2003 at 21:17:29 Pacific
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I wonder how many times that question gets asked on here anyways?


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Response Number 6
Name: the pickle
Date: May 28, 2003 at 04:31:50 Pacific
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At least once a month.

Next time it's getting answered with a "Search the board and see for yourself."

p


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Response Number 7
Name: chris
Date: May 30, 2003 at 07:53:48 Pacific
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first of all; you do NOT have to run mac software on mac hardware thats completely untrue; you can run linux; netbsd; openbsd; or even freebsd (when its done). and yes you can run darwin on your pc - you have been able to for much over a year now; however you cannot run the aqua frontend; anything written in carbon or cocoa which includes basically every piece of software written for macos x. you would be much better off getting a x86 unix based operating system such as linux or freebsd if you insist on staying with a pc. if not then buy a 1ghz powermac or something and run macos x because it basically IS freebsd and NeXTSTEP mixed together in a blender; and with Terminal.app you can issue any UNIX commands you may already be framliar with.

Chris


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Response Number 8
Name: kdfgjhdfj
Date: June 1, 2003 at 07:27:11 Pacific
Reply:

CORRECTION:

It is possible if you inatll a mac emulator (most are free - try basilisk II).

Install that and then install you mac OS on you PC!


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Response Number 9
Name: the pickle
Date: June 1, 2003 at 20:13:44 Pacific
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Uhhhh...

If you got OS X to run on Basilisk II, I'm sure there are several hundred thousand people who'd love to know how you managed that.

p


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Response Number 10
Name: Bobthearch
Date: June 2, 2003 at 15:31:34 Pacific
Reply:

I should clarify what I said above:

"if you want to use Apple hardware, you have to run/buy Mac software."

I don't think you can buy a Mac computer without being sold a Macintosh OS.

Yes you can run some different OSes on Mac computers. But you can't run ~Windows~ on a Mac. Well now I'm wrong again, you can with the use of an emulator, but it's soooo slow.

-Bob



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