View Full Version : NE1 installed OS X on their Intel yet?
jed
Oct 26th, 2005, 01:38 AM
Using the :VMWare files for patched Mac OS X Tiger Intel" method? Was it successful, or have you done this with another way?
If you were successful, What hardware did you use?
I've read a few sites on this but wondered if any RFD'ers have gotten this done?
ProfessorChaos
Oct 26th, 2005, 01:47 AM
theres no real point to osx x86 right now...that was like the alpha developers edition...its rare that everything in your pc will even function properly with osx x86...i tried osx on a venice 3200+...its a dual boot and u gotta spend hours tweaking to even get some functions working...
rule of thumb...if u want osx...buy a mac.
yjxiao
Oct 28th, 2005, 11:06 AM
I've got a powerbook, and a 3200 Winchester.
I've got the developer's edition OSX, but obviously that won't install.
How did you get it to work?
Ziggy007
Oct 28th, 2005, 01:40 PM
I read it is much easier to do through VMWare, but natively is a whole other story. You need to support SSE2 at least, and SSE3 is preferred.
djpharoah
Oct 28th, 2005, 03:46 PM
im just gonna wait till its released for x86..then i would have it dual boot with my linux setup
sfu_lifer
Oct 28th, 2005, 08:17 PM
It is native (OSx 86 compiled programs, that is). I got it to install but removed it after fooling with it for 2 weeks.
Not all programs work (the Rosetta emulation layer is not perfect yet, but quite a lot of it do).
Getting it up and running took a few hours on my AMD64 3200+ on an Asus board. It's a fun OS and is very functional even with the Dev version, great for "kicking the tires."
Don't ask me how to get it to work. Best resource is 0sx86 wiki (google for it).
If you have an HD to spare, a supported videocard and an SSE3 CPU (sse2 works but not as nice), by all means it's a fun little project.
coomar
Oct 29th, 2005, 12:04 AM
i would do it if I had the spare harddrive