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Author Topic: How-to: Install OS X x86 natively on your PC!  (Read 10,629 times)

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Re: How-to: Install OS X x86 natively on your PC!
« Reply #1 on: August 13, 2005, 03:15 AM »
it's amazing how quickly this scene is growing and progressing.

if your cpu supports the SSE3 instruction set your in luck. SSE2, will take a few more hours. ;)


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http://www.concretesurf.co.nz/osx86/index.php


« Last Edit: August 13, 2005, 03:18 AM by quixos »

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Re: How-to: Install OS X x86 natively on your PC!
« Reply #2 on: August 13, 2005, 04:43 PM »
more resources:
http://www.osx86project.org/
http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/Vmware_how_to

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Re: How-to: Install OS X x86 natively on your PC!
« Reply #3 on: August 14, 2005, 09:00 AM »
has anyone around here tried the vmware method.

i might be tempted to try in that direction just so that i can have a play around (or confirm how much i dislike apple's stuff).

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Re: How-to: Install OS X x86 natively on your PC!
« Reply #4 on: August 15, 2005, 07:09 PM »
vmware method is great, the one where you "repair" the tiger vmware image to a secondary darwinx86 formatted partition/hd is what i used

at startup, there is a delay of 10 seconds to input boot parameters "hit any key"

use for top speed the following... "platform=x86pc" no quotes

then go tweak crazy ;)

dualboot, become owner, graphical tweaks, delete "/System/Library/Extensions/AppleTPMACPI.kext" (important) etc.

in a nutshell osX is much peppier than xp on my machine, even without hardware acceleration of video. yikes.

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