Cool: How About Mac OS X on My AMD64 System

I know … it is illegal to run hackintosh macintosh OS X on any other x86/PPC platform other than “Apples” … but then again I did it just for fun and to show coolness (mine and OS X) to friends. But still, ain’t that COOL … I mean running nearly 100% working version of OS X 10.4.10 (even updated it using Apple’s Update Utility) on an AMD Athlon64 based system.

One PC able to run several OS - Linux, Solaris, Windows and now OS X …. that wasn’t possible just few years ago, on a desktop computer and so smoothly, if you know what I mean.

osxscreenwn2 Cool: How About Mac OS X on My AMD64 System

One thing for sure, even though I consider Linux to be my choice of OS, I gotta say that OS X is the best breed that desktop OS has to offer. Now only if I can manage to run Leo on this hardware to have even more fun.

Don’t worry, still sticking with Linux :-p

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Comment by linnerd40 on November 18, 2007

Cool! Any instructions on how you got this working? How does the multi-boot work? Are you using GRUB? Lilo? :D Lots of questions, sorry, but I am curious! I hope to hear more of this!

Comment by E@zyVG on November 19, 2007

As you guys can understand, I cannot give out howto/instructions over here, so I’ll give you some hints/clues:

1. forum-dot-insanelymac-dot-com
2. forum-dot-osx86scene-dot-com
3. piratebay-dot-org is your best friend for now (as demonoid-dot-com is down)
4. In my case, I installed Tubgirl’s image (hint-torrent: AMDVM_SSE3 TEST1)[not sure if this will work with AMD that has only SSE2, as I got one with SSE3 support], though you can try Kalyway’s image (which didn’t work for me).
5. Other than that, another great release was JaS’s 10.4.8 (Intel/AMD SSE2/3).

I managed to install on SATA drive (2nd primary partition), but mostly IDE drive is preffered, even at times required (incompatibility with SATA controllers).

Comment by Trent Dino on November 19, 2007

I know you’re probably joking, but it’s not actually “illegal” to run Mac OS X on a non-Apple computer… it is just a breach of the terms of Apple’s EULA.

Comment by Fred on November 24, 2007

Why would Apple do anything about others installing the Mac os on any other computer. I only means more money for them, they would probably increase sales of their OS , and who knows they might even have users who try it out, end up buying a system from them. Still more revenue! Heck I use an apple keyboard and mouse and a 21″ Apple Cinema, running Linux,. It works just fine!

Great job man! Keep up the good work.

Comment by Hiyoto on November 26, 2007

The only reason I can think of Apple not wanting to do this is because once you can put the OS on any hardware, people aren’t going to want their expensive hardware from them. Instead users will be buying from Dell, HP, or even a full custom build, and then users would only have to buy their OS from them. Probably a longterm harm to Apple.

Comment by The Dude on February 20, 2008

Apple’s hardware is not expensive. spec-for-spec Apple is price competitive with other major makes, but the overall fit & finish is better for the price than what you’d get in say, a dell.

The reason you think Apple is expensive is because Apple doesn’t sell low-end stuff.

Try to perceive things accurately.