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Patches Posted to Run Leopard on Some PCs
by , 1:45 PM EDT, October 30th, 2007
Members of the OSx86 Scene forum have been discussing a technique to modify Leopard to run on PCs. The method requires a PC that has SSE3. The technique violates the Mac OS X license.
The version of Leopard used was the GM, 9A581. The cookbook-like instructions involve command line work, patching an image of the install disc, burning a new disc and then installing on the PC. That's the short version. The actual instructions are several pages long and require one to be very familiar with UNIX.
While there may be some debate about the legalities of unlocking an iPhone, state and federal laws, and so on, this is one gem that Apple protects very tightly because Mac OS X drives Apple's Macintosh hardware business -- a business that's many, many times larger than their software business and one which Apple can be expected to protect.
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And you'll likely never get any updates for it too!!! Awesome!!! :-p
I don't know about that. I think every release of OS X on Intel so far has been cracked to run on generic hardware. You probably won't be able to run Software Update like everyone else, but it doesn't look like you'd be left in the cold, either.
That said, I wouldn't buy a PC specifically for this. But if I had a PC lying around anyway, I might give it a go.
Of course, if this becomes popular to the point where it's a real liability to Apple, we can expect them to take more drastic measures to prevent it. I don't see that happening, though.
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