OS X on an Intel-based PC? Been there, done that
Yeah, it’s cool, no question. OK, it might not be legal (IANAL). But, it’s really cool, and that’s what matters, right? I’m talking about running Apple’s OS X on my PC at home. Hypothetically speaking, of course.
Let’s just say that you found a copy of OS X out in the wild. It’s out there, I’ve heard on Bit Torrent and other file sharing networks. It’s probably already hacked by the latest legend, Maxxuss, who has singlehandedly disabled Apple’s attempt to lock the OS to Apple hardware. Burn the image to a DVD, drop a blank hard drive in your machine and you’re ready to give it a shot.
Whether it works or not is a matter of luck and drivers. If you’re hardware matches the supported profiles, you’re in business. In my hypothetical case, everything worked at first except sound and my network card. Consulting the OSX86project website, I discovered an Intel NIC I had is on the “supported hardware” list. Ten minutes later, I was hypothetically on the ‘Net, with Safari browsing away. Bottom line: if you want to try this at home, save some aggrevation by getting some hardware that’s supported.
It runs nice and fast. It’s solid. It’s pretty. There’s a bunch of software that runs on it. But you know what? After getting it running, I pulled the drive and went back to Windows and Linux. Maybe I’ll get back to it. But what I’m really focused on is running more apps on my servers, and on the ‘Net. I want my client machines to be not much more than an Internet connection and a browser. So I may get back to it someday, but OS X on Intel may be too little, too late for me.