Thom Posted February 20, 2008 Report Share Posted February 20, 2008 Pretty much running OSX on a PC, was thinking of giving it a go.Anyone tried this before ?http://www.osx86project.org/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Token Posted February 20, 2008 Report Share Posted February 20, 2008 I was going to give it a go running it on VirtualBox, never got round to downloading the whole .img of OSx though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strelly Posted February 20, 2008 Report Share Posted February 20, 2008 (edited) Ive been using osx 10.5 on my PC for about a month or so now with no problems! Ive been pretty lucky with hardware, as osx is picky! (im running a Q6600, P5W DH deluxe, 2gb ram, 6600gt)It took a good few days to get working how i wanted it, but it was nothing difficult. There are many forums to help out.Ive been using XP for years, upgraded to vista after christmas, became sick of it after about a week and turned to osx, best choice!using a program called VMware Fusion, i have installed xp and can use any windows apps i miss (only winamp!)Its well worth doing if your comps up to it!EDIT:An operating system for each screen! Edited February 20, 2008 by strelly Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomm Posted February 20, 2008 Report Share Posted February 20, 2008 I tried it when it first came out nearly two years ago and it was terrible. Barely any programs worked at all, it was really slow and crashed all the time (A bit like Windows, then )It's probably better now though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danny Posted February 20, 2008 Report Share Posted February 20, 2008 When you tried it it was running the first beta of OSX for intel based macs then chances are that ran nothing on macs either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomm Posted February 20, 2008 Report Share Posted February 20, 2008 Probably Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thom Posted February 21, 2008 Author Report Share Posted February 21, 2008 Thanks for the replies, that VMware looks very handy.My comp is dual core E6750, 3 gig ram, 8600 GTwould that be ok ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strelly Posted February 21, 2008 Report Share Posted February 21, 2008 Thanks for the replies, that VMware looks very handy.My comp is dual core E6750, 3 gig ram, 8600 GTwould that be ok ?Yea that should be fine, its mainly the motherboard that you need to worry about... Have a look through here?, it should tell you whether or not your mobo will be suitable.Good luck!Charlie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paolo Posted February 21, 2008 Report Share Posted February 21, 2008 (edited) I have it on my computer, I'm running JaS 10.4.7 (yes it's really out dated but it works and I don't have any probs). I'm really surprised, my whole computer works awesome with a fresh install from that DVD, absolutely everything works without any problems. Though, that's not the case with most computers...Anyhow, find a good internet connection, some time to spare, a few DVDs and try a out a couple of distributions ! (okay, maybe a another hdd wouldn't be a bad thing either...)Good luck, read about in the wiki before starting and don't be shy to ask in here as the osx86 project forum is rather slow to answer stuff...check this link for an overview of hardware compatibility Edited February 22, 2008 by paolo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thom Posted February 22, 2008 Author Report Share Posted February 22, 2008 Thanks guys, I'm probably going to give the kalyway release a go.Cheers! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paolo Posted February 23, 2008 Report Share Posted February 23, 2008 Thanks guys, I'm probably going to give the kalyway release a go.Cheers!From personal experience and a bit of reading, there's quite a bit of fiddling around required to get the os to start once installed with kalyway. Worth giving it a shot, anywho... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spode@thinkbikes Posted February 23, 2008 Report Share Posted February 23, 2008 Ive been using osx 10.5 on my PC for about a month or so now with no problems! Ive been pretty lucky with hardware, as osx is picky! (im running a Q6600, P5W DH deluxe, 2gb ram, 6600gt)It took a good few days to get working how i wanted it, but it was nothing difficult. There are many forums to help out.Ive been using XP for years, upgraded to vista after christmas, became sick of it after about a week and turned to osx, best choice!using a program called VMware Fusion, i have installed xp and can use any windows apps i miss (only winamp!)Its well worth doing if your comps up to it!EDIT:An operating system for each screen!I'm fairly sure you can get Winamp working in WINE (http://wiki.winehq.org/MacOSX) so you wouldn't need to run a virtual machine. Also xmms is available for mac and is basically a Winamp 2 clone.To anyone else, VirtualBox is free and faster than the free versions of VMWare - http://www.virtualbox.orgAnd as OSX isn't available as a separate license - installing it would be illegal That's why I just stick with Linux instead Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danny Posted February 23, 2008 Report Share Posted February 23, 2008 Easy peasy. A few file edits for my network card but apart from that works straight off the iATKOS disk. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thom Posted February 23, 2008 Author Report Share Posted February 23, 2008 hmm the iATKOS actually looks a lot easier, might try that instead. What graphics card are you using Danny ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danny Posted February 23, 2008 Report Share Posted February 23, 2008 Nvidia 7900GS, i think most nVidia cards work great. Just make sure you select customize on install and add the driver in Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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