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make windows look like os xSo you've done the formerly impossible and unnecessary: installed Winders on a Mac. Cool, best of both worlds. But there you are, staring at that awful primary color, jumbo crayon, sickly plasticky XP theme. Yeah, you could use one of the many mods featured on Download Squad (please, feel free). Or you could turn your XP rig back into a Mac. At least, you can make XP look a lot more like a Mac. Engadget did this nearly 2 years ago, although Aqua-Soft is still updating their content. Or why not go old school with an OS 9 flavor? Ah, that's better.

So you've done the formerly impossible and unnecessary: installed Winders on a Mac. Cool, best of both worlds. But there you are,...
 

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Christian:

Already possible, the intel dev builds of OS X leaked way back and were altered to operate on other SSE 3 (or to a lesser degree SSE 2) intel-based machines, albiet a bit slow. Of course now with all these actual intel macs out with actual video drivers and similar hardware preformance should only increase...

... would it be mean to dual-boot a MacBook into Windows and a ThinkPad into OS X just ot confuse people?

April 07 2006 at 4:23 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Todd

Man, this is already getting old... I'm going to puke if all the mac websites, magazines, etc. are all going to be talking about WINDOWS. Someone make it stop, please.

April 07 2006 at 2:21 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Troy McClure SF

Is there anything like this available for Windows 2000? I'm still stuck on that at work. All I've figured to do is move the taskbar to the top and installed a Safari skin of Firefox.

Pity me!

April 07 2006 at 11:40 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
ash

I use flyakite too. I've actually just written a small guide about customising the Windows GUI: http://techpaedia.com/2006/04/07/turn-your-pc-into-a-mac/
With shots of Flyakite etc for those of you who are interested.

April 07 2006 at 10:37 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Dan

I'll chime in with Fly a Kite too, it made using my PC at work more bearable - I still complained enough for them to buy me a Mac though, so no more need now.

April 07 2006 at 9:25 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Kurt Williams

Holy crap, I wrote that Engadget article! I can't believe it! Ahhh I'm so excited, I feel like a million bucks now. Thanks, TUAW, for featuring my article!

April 07 2006 at 9:01 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Arnoz

The best one is surely http://osx.portraitofakite.com!

April 07 2006 at 5:21 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Christian Gehrke

Ok so how long until we can run OSX on a dell?

April 07 2006 at 4:20 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Mark

Ah Flyakite... RKLauncher has a nice genie effect implimented finally, and it should work solidly on that fancy 1600x (I mean it did okay on a 9500 Pro so logic dictates...) In any case, I felt tempted already to install the plethora of mac simulating software out there, if only to confuse and bewilder the less technically advanced mac fanatics I know. "Look, it's Windows that looks like a Mac running on a... Mac, but as Windows, dual-booting with OS... X... yeahhhh... want to see Half-Life 2?"

April 07 2006 at 4:19 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
PQ

Flyakite is really cool. I use it in the office, where I'm working on a Windows machine.

I installed Windows on my new Mac mini yesterday. After I had it set up I had a short look at it, and then asked my self: what for? It's useless...

April 07 2006 at 2:50 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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