

Users must be willing to download pirated software, as the two files have been modified to get around the security technology in the developer PCs, according to The OSx86 Project Web site.
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The process requires a copy of Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger", VMware Inc.'s virtualization software, the PearPC emulator that can run operating systems written for PowerPC on any architecture, Apple's Darwin 8.0.1 software, an x86 processor that supports SSE2 (Streaming SIMD Extensions 2) and two files created by an independent developer that can be downloaded using the BitTorrent file-sharing system. Posters on that site as well as other sites within the Mac community claim to have used the instructions to run Mac OS X on their Intel or AMD PCs, with some posting pictures and videos of x86 PCs booting Mac OS X. However, several enterprising hackers have figured out ways to bypass the security chip and run the developer's version of MacOS for x86 on any x86-based PC, according to a posting on the Web site of the OSx86 Project.

Intel PCs distributed to Apple developers with the x86 version of Mac OS X used a security chip to prevent developers from copying Mac OS to other Intel PCs, according to several reports this week from Mac enthusiast sites. Apple CEO Steve Jobs told developers in June that a switch was necessary to take advantage of the low-power chips Intel is expected to release in the future.Īt the time, Apple executives insisted that Mac OS X would run only on x86 chips used in Apple-developed hardware. company has been working on a version of Mac OS X for Intel's chips since 2000, even though Macs currently use PowerPC chips from IBM and Freescale Semiconductor Inc. were posted to the Internet this week, and they could be found on several Web sites as of Friday.Īpple has announced that Mac OS X will run on Intel's x86 architecture chips starting in 2006.

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Instructions on how to install Apple Computer Inc.'s Mac OS X operating system on any PC with a chip from Intel Corp.
