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« on: August 19, 2006, 01:05:52 AM »
I know Apple released Boot Camp give Intel-based Macs the ability to run Windows, but it there any such program that allows PCs to run Mac OS X?
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« Reply #1 on: August 19, 2006, 01:37:54 AM »
Quote from: ILoveMacs on August 19, 2006, 01:05:52 AM
I know Apple released Boot Camp give Intel-based Macs the ability to run Windows, but it there any such program that allows PCs to run Mac OS X?

No, but there's a lengthy hack you can make to run OS X on you PC. But, you'd be a fool for doing it and expecting it to work the same as if on a Mac.
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« Reply #2 on: August 19, 2006, 02:10:30 AM »
.. we need a sticky for this ...
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« Reply #3 on: August 19, 2006, 02:11:58 AM »
Quote from: OrcishIncubus on August 19, 2006, 02:10:30 AM
.. we need a sticky for this ...
Wow really? Why? Has this been asked before? I'm sorry if it has.
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« Reply #4 on: August 19, 2006, 03:07:56 AM »
There is a way to do it, it's just kind of long. Even when running, it would not run well and be unsupported... No software that I know of like Boot Camp either.
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« Reply #5 on: August 19, 2006, 03:08:19 AM »
Maybe jsut from the years of being on this forum that it feels like a lot.. but.. yes, it's been asked.  to me, many times... but, I'd have to look through pages of archives to find the topics.  so.. meh.
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« Reply #6 on: August 19, 2006, 03:34:24 AM »
Ewww, I made it all sticky....

Apple, being a hardware company primarily, are trying their best to make sure that people don't cut out their bread and butter (the hardware) from the Mac equation. They've even closed the source tree for the kernel to prevent OSX86 from progressing further.
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« Reply #7 on: August 19, 2006, 09:30:56 AM »
Actually Hellmark, if I recall, the kernal was open sourced again.
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« Reply #8 on: August 19, 2006, 10:32:20 AM »
Ah cool, didnt know that.  Last I heard, which was just last month, it was getting closed.
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« Reply #9 on: August 19, 2006, 01:55:02 PM »
They were worried that the open source projects aided Maxxus.  Probably not, as he's a hacker, and that's just fun for him Tongue
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« Reply #10 on: August 20, 2006, 12:42:47 AM »
Yeah, pretty much no matter what they do, will not prevent people from breaking the security on there. Source or no source, stuff gets hacked, stuff gets modified. If source was needed to do stuff, No one would have ever pirated Windows...
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« Reply #11 on: August 20, 2006, 01:33:49 PM »
Couldn't they simply not provide hackers needed updates and such? You know, scan the system for the basic hardware found on a Macintosh, if it isn't present or the same as it should be, no update.
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« Reply #12 on: August 20, 2006, 01:49:24 PM »
Quote from: Liquidmark on August 20, 2006, 01:33:49 PM
Couldn't they simply not provide hackers needed updates and such? You know, scan the system for the basic hardware found on a Macintosh, if it isn't present or the same as it should be, no update.

You'd run into the same problems as Windows Genuine Advantage. It sucks, and sends out your information. Two things everyone hates, and Microsoft has been taking a lot of flak for it.
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« Reply #13 on: August 21, 2006, 04:38:46 AM »
Quote from: Liquidmark on August 20, 2006, 01:33:49 PM
Couldn't they simply not provide hackers needed updates and such? You know, scan the system for the basic hardware found on a Macintosh, if it isn't present or the same as it should be, no update.

Easier said then done. These hackers are people who know what they are doing - and exactly the kind of people who are capable of fooling such systems. I can see a vision of what you describe doing (as Shmi rightly said) exactly what is happening with WGA right now - denying updates to legitimate users, allowing hacked copies through undetected, and being more or less a nuiscance. Such software also doesn't fit with the apple philosophy - I can't see them doing that in the near future.

All I think apple needs to do is to make an installation process onto a whitebox PC incredibly complicated - putting it out of reach of anyone who isn't very skilled at hacking and cracking. That way, hackers can enjoy the system all they like - but they will never damage Apple's hardware market share.

Every time a new tool comes out to automate the procedure, break it with an update. Easy as 1.2.3br6!
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« Reply #14 on: August 21, 2006, 05:08:08 PM »
Quote from: Liquidmark on August 20, 2006, 01:33:49 PM
Couldn't they simply not provide hackers needed updates and such? You know, scan the system for the basic hardware found on a Macintosh, if it isn't present or the same as it should be, no update.

They have to hack each major update (10.4.6 for example).
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