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LooeyUK
11-07-2003, 20:28
is it possible to install mac os x on my pc?
rockabillybass
11-07-2003, 20:38
No. It's not made for x86 chips only the Power PC architecture which is completely different.

Sorry....

Martin
imback
11-07-2003, 20:46
You could skin your PC desktop to make it look like OSX, if the look is what you are interested in.
ic14
11-07-2003, 20:47
Originally posted by LooeyB
is it possible to install mac os x on my pc?
No not at the mo, but apple are rumored to be working on a version for pcs!
Lord Nikon
11-07-2003, 20:47
Originally posted by imback
You could skin your PC desktop to make it look like OSX, if the look is what you are interested in.

use the Talisman Desktop and you can change windows (any version) to look like anything you want
Chris
11-07-2003, 23:59
Originally posted by ic14
No not at the mo, but apple are rumored to be working on a version for pcs!

The project to make OSX run on x86 architecture was supposedly to ensure Apple weren't left without chips for their machines if the relationship with Motorola went belly-up.

As it happens they built their G5 PowerPC chip with IBM in the end, although rumours persist that OSX for x86 is still being developed, as a gun held to M$'s head in case they ever think about dumping MS Office for Mac.
downquark1
12-07-2003, 11:30
head in case they ever think about dumping MS Office for Mac
They've already made Office for X unless they change all the file formats they needn't made another version of office.

I doubt they will made OSX for PC because that would be suicide for their hardware manufacture since PCs have cheaper hardware.
Chris
12-07-2003, 12:47
Originally posted by downquark1
They've already made Office for X unless they change all the file formats they needn't made another version of office.

I doubt they will made OSX for PC because that would be suicide for their hardware manufacture since PCs have cheaper hardware.

If they never update Office X it could become obsolete fairly quickly ... obsolescence is part of M$'s business plan after all. Anyone trying to open the latest Word for PC files with Word 97 will know all about that.
Raoul_Duke
14-07-2003, 13:59
Apple have already open-sourced the core of OS X.....it's called 'darwin' and there is an x86 port ;)
Dupre
14-07-2003, 16:55
http://www.opendarwin.org/

its a bit of a pain to get working, like a bad linux distro.
Raoul_Duke
14-07-2003, 17:25
Originally posted by Dupre
http://www.opendarwin.org/

its a bit of a pain to get working, like a bad linux distro.

Yup, install went fine for me but i could never get the xserver running :shrug:
Dupre
14-07-2003, 18:34
the problem i found was getting software that ran on it, not really alot of stuff ported over to it.

XServer ran fine for me.
Raoul_Duke
15-07-2003, 14:48
http://elisa.utopianet.net/~rlucia/devel/darwin_ports/ :eek: