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happy-and-lost
January 2nd, 2007, 04:22 PM
I've just read this (http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/01/02/ebay_osx_booting_dell/) article, and seen the "proof" (http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Dell-Inspiron-6000-Running-OSX-10-4-7-6400-9000-9300_W0QQitemZ200062058462QQihZ010QQcategoryZ177QQ cmdZViewItem), and was wondering if it's even possible. It would be very cool to get Linux, Mac and Windows all on one machine :KS

kidders
January 2nd, 2007, 09:51 PM
Hi there,

Installing OSX on an x86 (or even an AMD64) is pretty trivial, although it's not always terribly happy, depending on the hardware it has to deal with. There are one or two disk images floating around that will work for you, although they must be pretty old by now.

Patrick-Ruff
January 2nd, 2007, 10:44 PM
I have the same exact laptop as you, 6000D. I ran OSX on it, a few issues . . . the video card, yuo have video acceleration but you have this really annoying thing called Mouse-Tearing, and your wireless card wont work.

either way, it's perfectly possible and it will work except the few hadware issues, and you'll also get bad battery life (though, that's the same for ubuntu too.)

Patrick-Ruff
January 2nd, 2007, 10:45 PM
also, those disk images floating around aren't very old, I'm pretty sure the latest one is from last month. they're working the 10.4.8 kernels now.

sadly, ATI isn't favored much among other OS's other then windows . . .

jincast90
January 3rd, 2007, 12:30 AM
sadly, ATI isn't favored much among other OS's other then windows . . .

This seems kinda strange. As far as I know a lot of the iMacs and the macbook pro's use the ati x1600.

RAV TUX
January 3rd, 2007, 12:58 AM
moving to MAC OS X forum.

Alfa989
January 5th, 2007, 07:55 PM
Sadly, ATI isn't favored much among other OS's other then windows . . .

Well, my iBook G4 has got a Radeon 9550...:) And it works surpsingly well, considering that it has 32 Mb of vRAM, and that it isn't a very modern card...:)

Ryan H
January 14th, 2007, 05:45 PM
Can anyone point to where you might find the images?

-Ryan H

jclmusic
January 15th, 2007, 03:52 PM
Can anyone point to where you might find the images?

-Ryan H

torrent sites.

Scheater5
January 19th, 2007, 07:37 AM
Lots of great information here (http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page). I personally have Tiger installed on a fairly old Compaq, but I get a kernel panic on boot up everytime. Currently downloading newer versions, because several of the newer versions (10.4.7 and especially 10.4.8) have been hacked to run better on non-Apple intel hardware.

j.dub
January 22nd, 2007, 05:44 PM
The only bad part about installing OSX on a non-apple machine is the driver incompatabilities.

Alfa989
January 22nd, 2007, 07:36 PM
The only bad part about installing OSX on a non-apple machine is the driver incompatabilities.

Agreed...

Macintosh Sauce
January 24th, 2007, 02:44 AM
It would be very cool to get Linux, Mac and Windows all on one machine :KS
You can get that right now. Buy a Mac! :) I can run Mac OS X, Windows XP Pro, and Linux all on the same box. Apparently someone has also figured out how to install Linux with BootCamp - COOL!

happy-and-lost
January 24th, 2007, 07:36 PM
Just wondering. It would be quite cool to have it on my I6000, but I doubt it's even worth trying. It's useless without wifi.

I would love to have a Mac, but I'm a student. I can barely afford train tickets, let alone a new £850 laptop! When I'm earning... maybe...

mips
January 24th, 2007, 09:37 PM
Lots of great information here (http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page).

Lol, i looked at that site and it seems I have struck the hardware compatibility jackpot. Averything on my MB works (raid is untested and i dont use it), CPU is fine, Gfx is ok but needs a nVidia patch.

edit: Even my laptop works except for the modem which probably does not work under linux either.

Frazer
February 2nd, 2007, 12:48 PM
Iv tried using the deadmoo image method and I just get a crash on trying to boot, it gets half way thorugh. Im gonna try using a real install cd to test it out. I ill probs buy a mac as my next computer.

kaahmfish
February 14th, 2007, 04:21 AM
uhm, you can put osx, windows, and linux on a mac if you have parallels...