Jumping on the bandwagon: OS X on x86! OMG!

hohoho, you have strong opinions, but that facts you use to back them are mostly false. Firstly, it's not just that apple is developing os X for intel (x86) platforms, but they are planning to move their hardware over to intel as well, knocking IBM out of the picture entirely. Second, OSX is based on BSD (a variant of Unix, but not unix), or in fact the mach kernel, but it is greatly modified. It is not simply a rehashing. Lastly, OSX simply is not based on Gnome in any way! I have no idea where you got this from. Gnome and OSX do not share anything in common, except maybe a few libraries (gtk...), and they look nothing alike. All this said, I do not use os x, and I in-fact use linux. Thus, I am not defending apple, just correcting your grossly misguided "facts".

Intel Macintosh or do they stay with apple Macintosh to keep the disciples happy thinking there still using a true mac, which disapeared years ago in the form of the G3. slowly but surley the mac has become an IBM PC. Intel OS is Just the icing on the cake, the compatability of OSX to run on pc cpus Is in the core of the OS apple in the past has tried to hide this compatability. For the record apples OS is a rehashed version PC OS called Unix & the OSX GUI is a rip off of PC Linux Gnome GUI. Apples innovative developments are innovative in truth but only on the apple platform.So it appears to me that apple is just another of the many brand name pcs to avoid that flood the market with incompatabilities and limitations. Steve jobs well known as the reality distorter with his constant false grand claims Again just clever marketing to appear to be ahead of the pc market to the ill informed minority. Prime example PowerPC's supposed performance advantage over Intel. fabricated by devious apple engineers. Now I can run OSX on the latest Pc harware Instead of my new G5 watered down harware limitations I say goodbye to Proprietory Systems why would you want one

Guillermo, if you have SSE3, you need to overwrite the CoreGraphics and iTunes and DVD will work as well as PPC compiled programs. The patched CoreGraphics is also what is causing the artifacts... the speed of the animations is due to the Extension you have to delete from the Extensions folder. It keeps checking for the dongle chip every few seconds, which takes up like 90% of the CPU every few seconds... once I removed the Extension and rebooted, EVERYTHING runs fast... the animation is smooth... no jumping or slugishness. Go to /System/Library/Extensions and delete or move AppleTPMACPI.kext from the Extensions folder and then reboot. You WILL notice the difference immediately!

Well, I have it running on an Intel 2.67Ghz with 488MB ram, and it runs GREAT! The download has the hacked CoreGraphics to run on SSE2 machines... but if you have a 2.5Ghz or higher, you support SSE3 for the most part, so I just overwrote the hacked CoreGraphics with the original one form the Developer DVD, and now Rosetta works... iTunes, DVD player and ever PPC compiled program I have installed runs out of the box on intel without any problems. There is an extension in the Extensions folder that checks for the dongle chip on the Apple Intel cpu to see if you can legitimately run it, but once you remove it from the Extensions folder and reboot, it runs FAST... in fact, my 2.67Ghz processor runs Mac OS X x86 faster than it runs Windows XP! They already have firefox browser for x86, so I have no need for Safari. Soon they will have Apple Airport patched to allow it to detect broadcom chipsets natively like it does on the PPC version of Mac OS X! I love this... I have it dual booting with Windows XP, which I will be dumping once they get Wine ported over to OS X for Intel so that I can run Windows software on Mac without the need for Windows!

Can someone help me understand why Apple would NOT want its OS running on non-Apple machines. From a business perspective, Microsoft has a monopoly on this market. Capture even a small percentage of the world wide OS market for Intel based machines and Apple stock goes through the roof. I'm not a techie, so I don't understand why Apple would NOT want to give consumers the option between Windows (a notoriously unstable system) and Apple's OS (a system famous for ease of use and innovation)? Add to that the fact the Windows in a knock off of Apple, which Mr. Jobs has surely not forgotten, and I cannot understand why Apple would not go after the Intel based OS market? Or are they....

Can someone help me understand why Apple would NOT want its OS running on non-Apple machines. From a business perspective, Microsoft has a monopoly on this market. Capture even a small percentage of the world wide OS market for Intel based machines and Apple stock goes through the roof. I'm not a techie, so I don't understand why Apple would NOT want to give consumers the option between Windows (a notoriously unstable system) and Apple's OS (a system famous for ease of use and innovation)? Add to that the fact the Windows in a knock off of Apple, which Mr. Jobs has surely not forgotten, and I cannot understand why Apple would not go after the Intel based OS market? Or are they....

For the most part everything works: Mail, Safari, iPhoto, iCal, Address Book, Quicktime, iChat, Bonjour, ethernet, sound card, USB ports, printer (Epson C63), DVD drive, CD-RW drive, flash drives... Nice. iTunes doesn't work. DVD player doesn't work. Safari crashes on some websites. System Preferences crashes in the screensaver and international prefpanes. Core Image and Quartz Extreme are not supported. I see some weird artifacts when some menus fade out, and the Expos頡nd Dashboard animations are a little slow.

I just finished installing it on my PC. It's a Pentium 4 2.8GHz with an Intel D865Perl mobo, 512 MB RAM, and a Geforce 5200 video card. It runs a little slower than my 1.5GHz Powerbook and I'm having a little trouble getting the ethernet card on the mobo to work.

It's not too hard to install it. After getting the necessary files, it took less then 20 minutes to get it installed on my laptop. Certain things, such as Graphics Core and other PowerPC specific apps don't work, but that's what you would expect.

One word, Tablet ! :D Fianaly !