“Unidentified programmers have hacked the Intel version of Mac OS X to enable it to boot a Dell PC. A file called the ‘JaS4.2b patch’ can be used to create a customized installer DVD for installing on a Dell PC,” MacWindows reports. “A website called MacaDell describes the patch. The MacaDell site has also has a page that describes how to use the JaS4.2b patch to create a customized installer disc for Mac OS X. Using the hack is illegal because it breaks Apple’s Mac OS X license agreement, which specifies that the operating system be run on an ‘Apple-labeled computer.’”
“According to MacaDell, work on the hack began when a Russian hacker known as Maxxuss cracked the encrypted security layer in Mac OS X that usually requires the software to be installed on a certain Mac model. Other hackers added to the work, and a programmer known as JaS put the work together in the JaS4.2b patch,” MacWindows reports. “The hack emulates the EFI boot firmware found in Intel-based Macs. It also emulates an instruction set called SSE3 in order to support processors older than the Dual Core used in the Intel Macs. MacaDell reports that the hack doesn’t work on every computer, and doesn’t support some functions, such as wireless networking and certain audio and video cards. At this point, the Intel version of Mac OS X is only available with the purchase of an Intel-based Mac.”
More info and links in the full article here.
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According to the article, OSX boots, but is pretty much hobbled. Anyone using it will soon get fed up and start looking at buying a Mac mini.
BTW, at work today, the button on the four week old Dell mouse I was using broke. Can that company make anything that isn’t totally shit?
Good. Let OS-X spread like a wild fire.
As is running on a Dull was worth it…
Just… buy a Mac
just… give me loads of money for an overblown IBM then.
i only want to transfer some files from an old 5260 on an IDE drive to an IMB clone so i can dump them to USB. why on earth would i buy a whole computer just for that?
you hipsters have too much money and too few brains
great now i can go out and buy a naff looking and shodily built computer to run a great operating system at a slower speed and no external functions! my prayers are answered, (sarcasm by the way) still might give the pc weenies a taste of the hapiness and encourage the jump.
Why ?
http://geirwerner.squarespace.com/dev-singhs-diary/
This isn’t news. I got OS X on a Gateway months ago.
I’m working on a similar project of putting a Porsche Engine in a 66 VW Bug…….
Very sad if true.
An Apple labeled computer you say?
Hmmm… so does using a printed label count?? If so, we’re in business.
Us poorer folk would kill for this. I have two old iMacs, both of them barely good for anything anymore beyond babbling in the comments on MDN. Even iTunes runs crappy on them. Can’t even use them as monitors for a Mac mini.
Would I like to be able install OS X on a dirt cheap Dell box? F*ckin’ right, I would!
If OSX is so great why haven´t Windows-type people been trying to do this before and….why are so many wanting to put Windows on their Apple????
^ because macs are only now compiled for x86, you dolt.
I thinking about putting some pearls in a pig pen.
“Hackers boot a Dell PC with Apple’s Mac OS X”
Might as well. With Vista dead again, the PC world needs something new to play with.
“OSX boots, but is pretty much hobbled.”
Good. Let it work just enough to give PCers a taste of what they could be using.
Nothing like a good teaser…
lol
“Hackers boot a Dell PC with Apple’s Mac OS X”
>Might as well. With Vista dead again, the PC >world needs something new to play with.
so up with the game he doesn’t realise there’s windows 7 and 8 now. tssk tssk.
“OSX boots, but is pretty much hobbled.”
(much like the original)
>Good. Let it work just enough to give PCers a >taste of what they could be using.
and about the same user experience .. lol
>Nothing like a good teaser…
do you mean that or are you just teasing me?
oh god how i laugh at you hipsters.
you’ll take anything apple dishes out and kiss their butt and say thank you.
me: “PS for a G4 tower plox”
them: “nope. apple won’t let us sell parts only”
…. breaking news … in australia apple have been found guilty of misleading (straight out LYING) about iPad 3 being 4G compatible when it isn’t .. .hahahahaah OOPS!
them: “apple say you have to bring the tower in and have the power supply replaced by an apple tech”
me: “when hell freezes over .. laterz”
they don’t even trust you to fix YOUR OWN HARDWARE YOU PAID FOR (well in my case was given one, they don’t get a cent from me)
case crackers, torx screws, childish little games to stop you fixing your own machine and depriving their service department of YOUR money. some things never change.
if it were not for IBM apple would have been broke years ago.
they bought their ideas for 50 grand from xerox who could only move 20,000 units of the ALTO.
IBM clones got a puter on everyone’s desktop.
you owe the fact you have a PC at all (They’re all pc’s people. that just means ‘personal computer’).
you use intel chips, sony drives, intel compatible RAM (well probably, you have done for a couple of decades), probably SATA drives (you were using IDE wich came from IBM clones), USB which came from IBM and OSX with a BSD kernel which came from IBMs in competition with linux. cat 2 and cat 5 networking came from IBMs.
what’s left? a mouse, a monitor and not a lot else.
just remember the reason you have a choice… .IBM!
Us poorer folk would kill for this. I have two old iMacs, both of them barely good for anything anymore beyond babbling in the comments on MDN. Even iTunes runs crappy on them. Can’t even use them as monitors for a Mac mini.
Would I like to be able install OS X on a dirt cheap Dell box? F*ckin’ right, I would!
You managed to get 2 iMacs but cannot get a Mini?
I don’t get it.
Okay this makes more sense than XP on Mac stuff. Putting a good OS on a crap PC in hopes it will work better. That makes complete sense.
The guys putting XP on a Mac are…Getting a an excellent running hardwre/OS combination and putting XP on it hopes that it will…what? run worse?
MDN word “merely”: Merely another opinion…
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Calling all Turd Polishers…
your generic Dell box will NEVER be a Macintosh!
Bite the bullet and buy a Mac!
Like you’ve always said… “Why buy an Apple when you can have a Dell that runs Windows AND OSX?”
heh.
Dell Quality – an oxymoron if ever there was one
At my work, a rail travel reservation call centre, almost 50% of the Dell desktops have had to be replaced due to various component failures.
There’s about 120 PCs in the place.
there ARE 120 PC’s. can’t you even speak english?
learn the difference between plurals and singulars hipster.
btw: a mac IS a PC. PC stands for ‘personal computer’
and i don’t use capitals because they are are redundant. bite me
MacaDell website? Man that’s scary putting Dell in the same name as a Mac. I’m glad my kids aren’t around my computer right now or they’d run away screaming… MDN needs to put a warning up for this story.
I forgot to mention, the Dells are not even 18 months old, btw.
gwm
I’ve managed to install 10.2 on to a really old tray loading lime green original iMac sure it runs damn slow but it works.
Buy a Mac? Fsck that. Overpriced, overblown POS.
theyre talking about 10.4.3, developers edition of intel.. not even the latest update… not even the 1st offical release for intel… if you get it to work… dont think youll be able to upgrade…. what a waste of time.