Installing Leopard on a PC

Well leave it to the so-called liberals running Macs to get all uptight. Sorry, but you guys can run Windows so we'll damn well figure out how to run OS X on our custom build or even branded PCs. Get over yourselves. Now if Apple were smart, it's offer up an easily installed version of OS X for generic PCs at a premium. Yeah, controlling your hardware base makes things easy for you.

Apple EULA reads:
"This License allows you to install, use and run one (1) copy of the Apple Software on a single Apple-labeled computer at a time."

So, buy some Apple decals and put them on your PC. Or, write "Apple" all over it with a Sharpie and Voila! One Apple-labelled computer!

I don't see this as a detriment to Apple at all. Hell, I ran a hackintosh myself for 3 months or so using OS X as my primary OS.

I learned a lot about OS X and the terminal.. I had to to get the thing working properly. I had a X1900XT 512mb and I remember the sheer Joy I felt when I had QE , CI and rotation working and I was playing WoW at 1680x1050 on my hackintosh at a decent framerate.

Over those few months I learned more about kexts and hardware IDs than most mac users will know in a lifetime. It was a great learning experience, and I started to love OS X.

Fast forward 6 months later and I now own my very first real mac, a 1.83ghz core2duo mac mini.

Using OS X, even on a pc that happens to have compatible hardware is a positive experience and will likely encourage more people to purchase a real mac.

I was fortunate especially because my Netgear 802.11N (WN311B model, if you're curious) was detected as an airport card by OS X.. no driver or kext hacking required.

my PC is an Amd rig, which of course made things even more complicated hehe.

I do this because Macs are way too fragile. I managed to do $1000 of damage to a Powerbook in a single sitting (tripped on the charger, brought it down from a table). The same thing happens to my Panasonic? Everything's fine. (Yes, the Macbooks now have MagSafe- doesn't protect from the laptop itself falling over for other reasons, whereas the Panasonics have tougher cases) So I installed Tiger 10.4.10 (live in China- the EULA doesn't mention anything about Apple-labeled, and even if it did, no one here enforces any of that as people plainly know) and now use it full-time. So what if wireless doesn't work- Everywhere I go that I need internet there's Ethernet and everywhere else my cellphone works just fine as a modem. Everything I need works, and everything else isn't something I really care about. Really, the difference between XP and Tiger is like night and day-Tiger practically flies on my 1.2GHz Core Solo and 512MB RAM. XP? Oh heck no.

So I'm a video editor and I hate having to use a mac to use final Cut. They're overpriced, and not as good as everyone makes them out to be. I would just rather build a kick arse PC myself for like 1300 and put OS-X leopard on it and dual boot it with windows on a different partition. You can already load windows on a mac, so why is it such taboo to load leopard on a pc? It's just the next step.

Ok cry babies. This might be the stimulus that Apple needs to make a working copy of Leopard for PC users. I think Microsoft is shivering in their boots. Imagine, the fastest beast PC running Leopard. What a dream come true that would be. Hack on my friends. Lets get the big heads thinking of the posibilities.

Well I have a ligit copy of Leopard on the way and my Hackintosh has a nice Apple on it I got with my iPhone so it is "apple-branded" so I'm in the clear right!

If this hack came out in an easier installation package (and it most possibly will) it will take too many people installing it and asking for Mac drivers for the hardware companies to actually provide them along the win/linux ones. Unless the same hackers start rolling out mac drivers for some popular brands and work it up from there.

Back then I remember my PowerPC was full SCSI compared to the clunky windoze boxes and the price premium was totally justified. Nowadays (hardware wise) it seems all goes to design and nothing much. Port Leopard to a custom made PC along w some basic drivers and I'm there.

I understand the Mac purist point of view and actually agree, but... My problem is that I have only recently gotten so absolutely fed up with Windows that I am seriously looking for a viable alternative and Linux just isn't quite there for me.

The issue for me is that I have not one but two perfectly good PCs at home already. I have absolutely NO need to purchase yet another computer at home and the wife would kill me for even bringing it up. However, assuming I pursue this grey area and get this installed and running on one of my home systems, I would then be more than willing to pay the premium to purchase a Mac as my next computer in say 18 to 24 months.

I would go on to suggest that being able to try out a Mac (let's face it, the OS is the computer to a large degree) for a few weeks or months is pretty much a requirement for me before I plunk down $2k+ on a shiny new system. My guess is that I'm not the only person who would have this view. Doesn't it also stand to reason that Apple selling a legal version of OS X for PC users to install would have the potential to dramatically increase the Mac market share. This increase in Mac market share would have the obvious result of bringing even more applications to the Mac platform.

Maybe I'm missing something here, but this is just my 2 cents.

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After Looking at the specs of a Vaio TZ, I see that Apple already makes a laptop like that. Remember the Regular Macbook?

Plus, the Macbook is cheaper.