Video of Mac OS X 10.4.1 for Intel has been posted running on a run-of-the-mill Dell laptop.
The “About This Mac” box isn’t very clearly shown – do you have a zoom on that camera, guys?
http://rssmac.altervista.org/video/
MacDailyNews Take: What do you think? Real or fake? We have our doubts, since the most obvious thing in the world would be to show the “About This Mac” box clearly.
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1st post maybe…
Yea, it ‘looks’ real.
Who knows for sure.
wow.
Dells really suck.
Of course its real, but look at how slow it is. Did you notice how choppy it was when he was scrolling in safari. It reminded of the days when i used a performa 6360
the video would not play on my office dell, because I don’t have quicktime 7. how was it created in quicktime 7 if it were running on a dell box?
Obviously a fake.
QuickTime 7 Public Preview for Windows
http://www.quicktime.com/
The redraw and responsiveness look an awful lot like they’ve VNC’d into a Mac… Without seeing the About this Mac box clearly, I’m thinking it’s fake.
“Of course its real, but look at how slow it is. Did you notice how choppy it was when he was scrolling in safari. It reminded of the days when i used a performa 6360”
There are two reasons for this horrible video performace:
1 – The Dell doesn’t have a graphics card with enough oomph.
or
2 – This is a hoax and the Dell is actually running Pear PC.
I’m voting for #2 – I have a 500 MHz G3 iBook that has better Quartz performance than that crappy Dell.
Comon now, its pretty obvious its either running a VNC client or pearPC, look at how choppy the video is.
Quicktime does run on OS X.
Quicktime does not run on Windows.
People need to get over the fact it is an Intel Processor underneath it.
Remember Jobs said that he mandated that ALL Apple Software work on both IBM and Intel?
Quicktime is not dependent on Direct X or other MS product. Quicktime is an Apple product. And it does work on an Intel box. He demonstrated it at WWDC.
Window screen redraws give it away. Definitely faked using VNC.
clarification to above…
Quicktime does not NEED or REQUIRE Windows or Direct X to run.
looks like a full scrren video with a little rehearsal to me
Either way, it’s kinda’ like putting fancy high heels on a muddy pig. OS X looks out of place on that Dull.
Why did the window minimise into the desktop and not the dock? Craptapular fake
Ironically I couldn’t get the video to work on my G5 Dual 2ghz Power Mac!
LOL!
Yup, Apple really knows what they are doing.
I hope millions use this hacked version, and then Leopard crushes Longhorn in the press. Then all of those hacks can buy a Mac for real.
Brilliant.
I think it’s fake. On the dock you can see about 1000 applications. That’s a lot of Mac apps to have installed already considering this has been out for what? 24 hours? and that’s a lot of *mac apps* for a PC person to have…
But I could be wrong
I think it’s “lipstick on a pig”.
ps yea, I think it’s vnc or pearpc – it does seem rather slow doesn’t it.
pps the other question is, how would someone have ripped off a copy of the Intel OS X anyway,… weren’t the machines all pre installed? Are people trying to say that someone managed to acquire either a disk image from an installed machine, or an install disk, whilst they were at the WWDC, with Apple’s watchful eye looking over their shoulder? Pretty good effort if so.
Oh, and this is totally fake. Already been debunked around the web.
OS X on a Dell is like high heels on a filthy pig.
I think that says it all. Now I don’t even need to download the video.
I used to sell Dells in the mall, and that Dell laptop in the video was pretty old, probably at least 4 years old, if that makes you feel any better about how choppy it looked.
Also – looking at the “About this Mac” info, in the section where it would be Processor type, clearly, I can’t see what the text says for sure. But I do believe you can make out bigger blurred text (capitol letters) and some gaps (spaces). Now, looking at my “About this Mac” info for my processor, the formatting looks extremely similar to:
Dual ## GHz PowerPC G5
It’s VNC. I run this at home. You get the blocky outlines when doing the Genie effect, the window scrolling refreshes the same too.
Sad.
Looks like VNC in full screen mode