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Mac OS on my Athlon 64 machine....pics

post #1 of 21
10/8/05 at 3:55am
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oops....sneaky ibook...lol. Even at 1024x768 my ibook displays very nicely on my 19' viewsonic a90f+.


I am not really a cheater.
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post #2 of 21
10/8/05 at 6:55pm
hows it run on there?
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post #3 of 21
10/8/05 at 7:04pm
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Originally Posted by b33faroni
hows it run on there?
How does what run on where? He is just using the desktop display, either by replicating it or extending his desktop.
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post #4 of 21
10/8/05 at 10:16pm
i thought that ibooks didnt support expanding hte desktop to another monitor.
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post #5 of 21
10/9/05 at 12:07am
Ah I see the cord now in the background. I thought he was running the OS X hack on his PC, i was a little off, had just came back from taking SATs heh.
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post #6 of 21
10/9/05 at 11:09am
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Originally Posted by b33faroni
hows it run on there?
I'd imagine just like an iBook.

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Originally Posted by drizek
i thought that ibooks didnt support expanding hte desktop to another monitor.
They don't have true dual monitor support, but they do support video mirroring.
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post #7 of 21
10/9/05 at 2:25pm
Ummm... what was the point of this? You do know you can actually run OSX on a A64 or P4 or P-M for the matter?
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post #8 of 21
10/9/05 at 4:36pm
The whole point of it was so he could hear someone tell him that he can actually run OS X on a PC and ask him what the point of the post is.
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post #9 of 21
10/27/05 at 1:14pm
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Originally Posted by chuck232
Ummm... what was the point of this? You do know you can actually run OSX on a A64 or P4 or P-M for the matter?
can you please advise me of this in further detail... ihave a P4 .... do i need to mod the mother board to get this done or just install on the free partition.
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post #10 of 21
10/28/05 at 11:13am
There are enough websites, that i will not post, where everything is explained. I had it running on my notebook a while ago.
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post #11 of 21
10/30/05 at 8:28pm
G-Force, how did it run for you on your notebook? I have several friends that would probably like to know this for they are not as lucky to auctually own a PB
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post #12 of 21
10/30/05 at 10:16pm
i had it running on my girlfriend's 2.2Ghz Celeron Toshiba laptop. it ran well enough, the only hangup being the graphics. that celeron only had support for SSE2 and not SSE3, so it was a bit halting at times. all in all slower than my iBook. i imagine w/ an SSE3 processor it would be pretty swift.
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post #13 of 21
11/19/05 at 8:17am
Hmm it ran, but the graphics adapter was not supported. Only as just a VESA adapter. But it's fast enough for non graphical things.

It was really fast, maybe faster then on a PowerPC processor.

But iTunes and some other PPC programs didn't work because the Pentium M doesn't support SSE2.
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post #14 of 21
11/19/05 at 2:11pm
The Mac OSX system is based on Unix which can be modified to run on various platforms like Intel or PPC. Since Apple has been working on switching to Intel processors the logical choice was to choose a flexible OS that will allow current users to live through the switching process.

Although OSX was designed to support Mac hardware it can be modified to run on Intel platforms but it lacks driver support for some devices available on PC systems so a compatible driver must be written or modified for these components to work on PC systems under the modified Mac OSX.

(sacriligeous I know but it works)
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post #15 of 21
12/13/05 at 7:37am

AMD won't run OSx86.

Originally Posted by chuck232:
"Ummm... what was the point of this? You do know you can actually run OSX on a A64 or P4 or P-M for the matter?"

OSx86 is only made for the intel platform, not AMD because the new macs are, you guessed it, INTEL.
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post #16 of 21
12/13/05 at 10:27am
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Originally Posted by AgentWhite
Originally Posted by chuck232:
"Ummm... what was the point of this? You do know you can actually run OSX on a A64 or P4 or P-M for the matter?"

OSx86 is only made for the intel platform, not AMD because the new macs are, you guessed it, INTEL.
AND, just like any othe x86 compatible software, OSX runs equally well on AMD hardware (AMD platform? Intel platform? PCs are PCs). If you don't believe me, try it. Display drivers aside (forced to run in 1024x768 with no hw acceleration), everything works as smooth as it should. Maybe it's not "the new macs are, you guessed it, INTEL." but "the new macs are, you guessed it, x86 compatible PCs" which is much more like it.
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post #17 of 21
12/29/05 at 7:48pm
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Originally Posted by AgentWhite
Originally Posted by chuck232:
"Ummm... what was the point of this? You do know you can actually run OSX on a A64 or P4 or P-M for the matter?"

OSx86 is only made for the intel platform, not AMD because the new macs are, you guessed it, INTEL.

Do you know how wrong that is? Intel, AMD = x86 (or sometimes, x86_64), but nonetheless theyre x86. AMDs Proc's even have SSE3, and you might want to look at the HCL at osx86project.org before you decide to think youre right and give meaningless information.
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post #18 of 21
2/3/06 at 8:52pm
yOU GOT ME..
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post #19 of 21
3/18/06 at 1:03pm
Nvm, answered
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post #20 of 21
3/19/06 at 7:36am
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Originally Posted by AgentWhite
Originally Posted by chuck232:
"Ummm... what was the point of this? You do know you can actually run OSX on a A64 or P4 or P-M for the matter?"

OSx86 is only made for the intel platform, not AMD because the new macs are, you guessed it, INTEL.


x86 is just an instruction set architecture, or the "language processor speaks" or whatever. don't try to make chuck232 look stupid, he got it right you got it wrong.

edit: whoops already commented on sorry
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