The cat is out of the bag: some inspired hackers
have found ways to run a
crippled developer-issued copy of Mac OS X on non-Apple machines (including Dell laptops, *gasp*). Instructions were posted everywhere on the Net this week; but what's really interesting is the fact that Mac OS X runs considerably faster on a standard Intel Pentium 4 PC than it does on a Dual 2GHz Power Mac G5. Wired.com
says:
Quote:
No one knows exactly why OSx86 appears to be running faster on the PCs than the Mac OS does on today's Macs.
"To be honest, we're not sure," said a hacker nicknamed "cmoski," who said he works for a large software company. "Some in the Pentium camp want to say, 'Because a Pentium is faster, of course,' some want to say (Intel chip architectures are better than Apple's) and some in the PowerPC camp just want to say that it isn't full OS X (running on the beta systems)."
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What a blow this must be to Mac enthusiasts. And worse, where does that leave Apple who has always maintained control over its operating system by restricting it to hardware made and developed by the company only? Looks like future 'MacIntels' are going to be nothing but regular Intel PCs, available of course at the Apple-essential 50% price premium.