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Originally posted by bigfatguy6969@2 Hours Ago
Actually my brother has MAC OS X on his intel based PC.
=P
I really hate apple, they over price, have terrible low-end computers, and the selection of software really sucks.
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Or its just cool, how?
Hum no. It's a basic 512mb 2.8ghz Intel p4.
It runs pretty nice. I haven't got a clue how he accomplised this. I could get a few answers out of him im sure. He's great with pc's has alot of degrees and such xD
Doesn't mac software run fast anyways... c'est why they don't use such hot ass processors ^_^
Apple's are designed around a closed system of hardware and software. They know exactly what components are going to be used, and how to best manipulate them. But physically speaking, mac's are no faster than their intel counterparts. On the same note, mac's aren't really slower either, although their clockspeed may be slower than intel's they are completely different chips. it's comparing apples to oranges. however, the end product is about the same. MacOS will run fast though, because of the above reasons.
BFG,
He might just be running a severly customized Linux. You can (I have) get KDE to look and act EXACTLY like MacOS, even used a mac startup screen and sound. The only way to actually get MacOS to run on an intel system, as far as i know, is to completely backwards engineer it and then rewrite it from scratch, removing all the hardware checks and swapping the CISC to RISC processor calls. Someone might have done it already, and distrubuted it, but I haven't heard of it yet.
He told me (he really has no reason to lie; and he does this at school all day xD), that he had mac os x. I dunno, I don't see the point of using MAC, as there software choices sucks.
Both. But new macs even have Intels in it - kinda funny, lol.
