OSX on my PC.....

[Haltech]

Using virtual machine it was terrible. The MOUSE even lagged.

Umm maybe on yours... i can run 24 instances of WinXP/Win2k with no lag...

[JAWS]

nvidia video cards are not supported right now, only ATI 9600, 9800, x850 can get CI and QE

this mobo supports both CI and QE. I bought this because it identically matched the one the developers used.

http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/7494/dscf09135oc.jpg

here is the thread I had: you guys run some xbench and post results

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...ad.php?t=76565

[EvilCloudStrife]

i would prefer OSX over windows, but the 3rd party support just is not there for thing like games and applications. If that were to change, i would make the switch. same with linux

[JAWS]

i would prefer OSX over windows, but the 3rd party support just is not there for thing like games and applications. If that were to change, i would make the switch. same with linux

well they took a step in the right direction switching to Intel.

[Gnarr]

Do you know if there has been a sussessfull install on a MSI K8N neo2 Platinum? And what bios they were using then?

I've tryed both 10.4.1 and 10.4.3.

[JeffTracy]

OSx86Project (http://www.osx86project.com) is the place to visit to find out what is happening in the entire OS-X-on-x86 camp.

Yes, it initially started when a developer leaked one of the devkit builds to the internet, not knowing that each individual OSX build issued as a devkit was fingerprinted. Needless to say, the offending developer is a developer no more. Apple have also come down hard on OXP in recent weeks, and after the moderators removed articles & links leading to how-to's & the like, they were left alone.

As far as things currently stand: the latest 'Universal' build of 10.4, as provided with the Intel iMac, the MacBook Pro and the Core Minis, has been patched to run on a very small set of board & CPU pairings, some better than others (the closer your PC is to the Intel based designs, the better it runs). Expect little or no support for onboard devices that hook through a non-Intel chipset. Those devices that do work, operate under Darwin's VESA30 level driver pack (ie, barely). Accelerated 3D (Aqua, Quartz Extreme) UI enhancements are available only to reference designs of cards & GPUs currently used in Intel Macs, plus a couple of other older models.

There are individual efforts attempting to develop drivers to overcome the above problems, but they are slow and hampered ... it could be many many months, maybe even years before we see a 'truly universal' Mac OS X. And rest assured, any time someone gets close, Apple are going to come a'gunning. They've said they don't care if people run Windows on Mac hardware, but will actively fight attempts to run Mac OS X on non-Apple hardware.

(No, you won't ever see Mac OS X for generic PCs in the shops, at least not whilst Jobs is still in charge.)

Until fullly-DirectX-compliant VMware reaches OSx86, expect zero support for gaming. There will be NO support for DirectX under Mac OS X -- this is one thing Bill & Steve B are adamant about. As the MacIntelintosh becomes more commonplace, more game foundries will do ports for OSx86, with the most likely switch being away from DX and towards OpenGL.

There's also plenty of work going on in the opposite direction, too -- getting Windows XP to boot on an Intel Mac. Whilst a few enterprising teams have managed to get Knoppix booted, and then using VMware to get XP going that way, they still have little or no 3D support. The primary goal of getting Mac hardware to dual-boot into XP is hamstrung by Apple's use of EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface) and by their not including the BIOS Compatibiity Support Module. Again, there are teams trying to fill this void the hard way but they are slow and hampered by insufficient technical data.

So there you go


FAB