Installing MacOS Tiger on my PC
I?m very intrigued by the idea of installing Mac OSX Tiger on my PC. I would like to do this after it?s next upgrade.
Why don?t Apple begin selling OSX as a viable alternative to Windows.
I would love my machine to be dual boot with that. This would allow me to test my Java applications on other platforms without needing more desk space.
Is it legal to buy OSX from Apple and install it on a PC rather then a Mac?
I?d obviously have to patch it in some way for it to work though. What?s the legality of this?
Andrew.
Why don?t Apple begin selling OSX as a viable alternative to Windows.
I would love my machine to be dual boot with that. This would allow me to test my Java applications on other platforms without needing more desk space.
Is it legal to buy OSX from Apple and install it on a PC rather then a Mac?
I?d obviously have to patch it in some way for it to work though. What?s the legality of this?
Andrew.
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Isn't it rather a question of whether that works or not?
If you are able to get it to work because of having created a patch of some sorts, and as long as the patch doesn't involve disassembly/reverse-engineering of the original software, or in some other way is not in violation of the copyright/tos then it should be ok, right?
Skarpo
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...but it seems there is a lot of interest/success out there...
http://www.osx86project.org/
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Alternatively: Why not upgrade to an Apple machine (thus getting to run OSX legally) then use BootCamp to install your own copy of Windows in a dual boot configuration.
Because Apple are a hardware company. Selling OS X as a alternative to Windows as would impact on their core hardware business, as consumers would switch to running it on cheap Dells rather than Apple hardware. Furthermore there are extensive benefits from only supporting a closed subset of hardware configurations over which you have complete control. It is a considerably more difficult task to provide guaranteed support for every obscure PC configuration out there whilst still presenting the "it just works" Mac experience.
I like PC's because when they go wrong I can pick up a single crosshead screwdriver and get inside and diagnose the problem with little effort. Getting inside any of Apple's modern hardware is a bit like trying to solve a rubics cube while handcuffed to a lampost.
So maybe my best bet is so trot of my uni's open access Mac labs.
Although hardly anyone here knows how to maintain them and there allways running a bit of a flakey set up with em.
In the first lab the machines were running Java 1.4 and I need 1.5 and have not privelages to upgrade. So I got a Minor Major versioning error.
The second lab I tried wont accept my JNLP files saying somthing like "Could not open, file is still downloading". The JNLP file is less than 1K and works fine on a PC.
What do you reccon the problem is with the machines in the second lab Aowen?
What do you reccon the
Ah Rapsody is to Apple, as Longhorn is to Microsoft. Hmmm.
Actually the codename for the forthcoming Server release is still Longhorn so that's not entirely true.