Wonders will never cease - I am currently writing this aside in Safari, in OSX, running on my Dell D600 Laptop. I shit you not. :)
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Sep 4th, 2005 at 2:48 am
As an update to this - I now have a fully operational OSX install on a spare laptop hdd, complete with iTunes, etc. I can certainly see why many move to OSX and never go back.
Sep 6th, 2005 at 4:08 am
Funny, I thought you were already on a mac… what’s the performance like on PC?
Sep 6th, 2005 at 5:27 am
On a Pentium M 1.4ghz with a gig of ram? Quick - surprisingly quick. Even Rosetta (patched to run SSE2, rather than SS3) is still surprisingly quick with very little delay (despite the reduced optimisation SSE2 has over SSE3 for Rosetta)..
I suspect OSX is going to really kick some serious ass once the retail Intel based systems come out..
Sep 8th, 2005 at 4:36 am
Nice…. welcome ;-D
I dont suppose you can get iTunes 5 for it though? Or would it run under Rosetta?
Sep 9th, 2005 at 8:05 am
It runs fine. :)
If nothing else this is giving me a good “feel” for OSX 10. So far I could easily see myself running a mac for most things, with the XP box set up for gaming.
Sep 9th, 2005 at 8:28 am
cool :)
well im hoping that when Macs go intel proper some clever fellow will enable a hack so that windows can be run within OSX. That would mean no need for 2 machines and fingers crossed - proper 3d acceleration in games.
Nov 28th, 2005 at 10:59 am
Heyy, any links to a guide where I can get that to work? Is it only Intel-specific of x86 compatible?
Nov 28th, 2005 at 4:56 pm
A quick search in Google will give you a few results - searching on “OSX vmware” should result in something useful.
Be aware, however, that Apple have (unsurprisingly) already posted updates that render the system unusable on anything other than Apple authorised Intel systems.