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[Zaptruder]

Hah.

It's only a beta right now, but it's amusing. I think maybe apple might be fubarred in some ways.

 

[Hyoushi]

From thursday, with movies

 

[Zaptruder]

Waita minute.

... That's not a GAF thread. It's only 'old' if it's old to this forum. Well not really, but the idea is to get GAFFers talking about this.

 

[goodcow]

And with this, I can finally run DVD Studio Pro at home!

 

[Hyoushi]

Oh, I could swear there was a GAF thread about it... Hm. Maybe it was another forum.

 

[AB 101]

Hah.

It's only a beta right now, but it's amusing. I think maybe apple might be fubarred in some ways.

Just shows what OS everyone really wants to run.

 

[Burger]

Once this is out of beta/whatever, I will consider making the dual-boot 'switch'

Only on the condition that it runs as fast as my windows setup, otherwise I wouldn't make the trade. Shame I haven't got SSE-3 on my AMD64.

 

[Thraktor]

I really don't think this is going to be much use to you guys who plan on dual-booting, as it's purely a beta-version of the OS designed to run on existing x86 architecture. In the next week or so, Intel will be announcing their next gen of processors to developers (essentially Pentium 5, but I doubt they'll be calling it that) emphasising multi-core processing and low power consumption. The processors are intended to be out in desktop PCs in mid-06, the exact same time as Apple are bringing out their first Intel boxes. Given that the word is quite a considerable change in architecture from today's processors, it's safe to assume a number of things:

-The current beta x86 release of OSX will be incompatible with the final Intel version of the OS. The current boxes are merely early-beta dev kits to get developers accustomed to Intel processors.
-Apple have most probably scored a deal with Intel such that the two versions of the new processor family (PC and Mac) are different in such a way as to prevent pretty much any possibility of dual-booting on either machine. The hardware business makes far too much money for Apple for them to chance it by allowing their OS to be run on Dell hardware, and given that Apple have probable been in on this new tech for quite a while, they'll have had ample chance to weasel an agreement out of Intel to such effect.

 

[Burger]

I agree.

Something wouldn't be quite right about running OS X on my half ass PC with it's case open and half it's bits lying around on the floor, with it's gigantic chinese case missing parts...

 

[goodcow]

I agree.

Something wouldn't be quite right about running OS X on my half ass PC with it's case open and half it's bits lying around on the floor, with it's gigantic chinese case missing parts...

No, no, no, something wouldn't be quite right WITHOUT OS X running on your half ass PC with it's case open and half it's bits lying around on the floor, with it's gigantic chinese case missing parts...

 

[EmSeta]

So.. what kind of specs are required? Is there some kind of emulation going on? Will I be able to run it `smoothly on a 1,5 GHz, 512 Mb PC?

 

[AndreasNystrom]

People claim it runs faster on Intel then on Macs.. so.

 

[tedtropy]

I seriously doubt that Intel would design any kind of radically different breed of processor exclusively for Apple. At best, they'll get a chip with some flavor of DRM built onto it and, well, we all know how long those stay effective. You can count on OS X running on an ATX box pretty shortly after the release of Apple's Intel-based systems. Whether it'll be stable or worth it initially is doubtful.

I get tired of hearing the whole "Apple is just in the hardware game" mantra. Maybe they should do something ballsy and try seeing if consumers welcome a viable choice in their operating systems, but Apple prefers the whole gated garden approach.

 

[Drey1082]

People claim it runs faster on Intel then on Macs.. so.

On Twit they said it was running very fast, which is good news. I would love to have a dual boot of osX and xp.