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running OS 10 on intel base PC

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by gchann69 Feb 18, 2003 last reply May 20, 2003

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can you run MAC's new OS 10 operating system on its own hard drive on a intel base PC? I have 3 hard drives 1. WINXP 2. W2K 3.??OS 10 ?? in a 1.5 GHZ P4

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by d_v ant Feb 18, 2003

In short, no. Mac OSX is designed to run only on RISC based processors. Intel processors are not RISC based.

by gchann69 May 20, 2003

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by alpha-male Feb 18, 2003

This has been a hot topic for some time and I have to admit, I added my signature on the www.osxforintel.com website (now gone). The debate has been fueled by several things - most notably the Darwin core compiling on X86.

Do I think it'll happen? Sadly, no...though I can assure you I'd be in line to buy it the second it was available if it happened.

OSX rocks. It is what Linux could be if it was polished to a truly special level. Apple have been masters of the interface for many years and OSX is as superior a product to the MacOS as XP is to Windows 3.1

I've been tempted to buy a G4 to get it...but haven't been able to stomach it yet (a nice one is pretty expensive). Would I drop $200....$300 manybe even $400 for OSX on my PC. Gladly.

Here's an interesting link (delete any spaces):

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,496270,00.asp