Mac OS X on a Dell? It’s true. (Picture & Video Proof)

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Apple announced many weeks back that they were switching to normal Intel hardware in their computers instead of IBM’s processors. It was no surprise to some in the tech industry because it was common knowledge that Apple had a working version of Darwin (OS X Kernel) for Intel processors freely downloadable for quite some time. Having a full version of OS X for Intel hardware (better known as: OSX86) in some hidden lab at Apple wasn’t that much of a stretch but always provided for a good debate.

Is it now possible to ditch your copy of Windows for a brand new copy of OS X? Not if Apple has anything to say about it. Apple has implimented hardware level security that will prevent normal users from installing the operating system on off-the-shelf Intel computers. However, some have managed to break the security and now have semi-working copies on certain types of hardware. The problem now is a wide number of drivers are not in the wild for devices so the chances of having all the hardware working on a given computer is not a certainty. Fortunately, this situation is changing because OS X is based on BSD so some people have began projects to write their own drivers. Below I have included both a screenshot of a desktop and video of an unnamed person dual booting Windows XP and Apple OS X on his Dell laptop. (None of the items are hosted on my server.)

Screenshot (click to enlarge):

Video (hit “play”):

Update (2.19.06): Original host for the video is down. Link updated.

As always, I don’t condone piracy so please don’t do anything illegal.

August 22, 2005 | Filed Under Tech/Gadgets 

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