Apple OS X 10.4.4 for Intel Cracked (Again)

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I’ve written about running Apple’s beautiful OS X on Intel hardware many times in the past. Another one of my past posts on this topic even gave a list of links on where to find information on how to accomplish this feat on regular white box computers. The scene has been relatively quiet for a long time as Apple was gearing up to release their official Intel-based machines. The main problem was that many pieces of hardware couldn’t run under the OS X because drivers were not available much like Linux machines of yesteryear. Unlike Linux, the OS X for Intel community didn’t have the programmers necessary to start writing drivers so things began to stagnate. Many hoped that the official release of Apple machines would coincide with more drivers. Then a few new developments occurred:

Instructions are available on Maxxus’ page which show how to install the new version under VMWare so I’m sure people are very excited about this development. One of the biggest things holding back extended use of the operating system in the OSX86 hacker community was the lack of accelerated drivers for nVidia and ATI cards. At the moment, I haven’t bothered to check the message boards but something tells me that problem should (hopefully) be a thing of the past.

Both Slashdot and OSx86 Project are running stories on this as we speak and it seems like everyone is in agreement on one thing: mainly, this isn’t going to affect Apple in any big way. Most of the people taking the time to install the software are enthusiasts who have the time and extra computers to play with this operating system. The general public won’t be using this at all because it involves far too much time and energy for any of this to work. Even then, how can most people even begin to sacrifice their productivity in Windows or Linux to play around with an operating system that probably won’t support their hardware? Not many I assume. On the other hand, it will give some people a great conversation piece and maybe even give Apple a few extra machine sales.

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

February 14, 2006 | Filed Under Tech/Gadgets 

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