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global citizen
September 15th, 2008, 12:00 PM
One of my friends has told me that the versions of Leopard OS X which people often install on PCs are not genuine installs but emulated installs. Is that true or false? Some light on this would be highly appreciated.:)

SunnyRabbiera
September 15th, 2008, 12:07 PM
One of my friends has told me that the versions of Leopard OS X which people often install on PCs are not genuine installs but emulated installs. Is that true or false? Some light on this would be highly appreciated.:)

Most of the time its emulated or downright hacked.

diobrando
September 15th, 2008, 01:35 PM
By design OSX cannot be legitimately installed on anything other than Apple hardware. OSX86 will let you install a cracked copy with drivers for other manufacturers on an x86 compatible PC.

sicofante
September 15th, 2008, 02:12 PM
No emulation whatsoever. It's hacked so the OS doesn't check for Apple's hardware, that's all. Otherwise the OS is exactly the same and has exactly the same performance (or better, depending on your hardware) as it has when running on "native" Apple hardware (which is just ordinary PC hardware with some extra "security" for Apple to close the system).