On Oct 22, 2008, at 10:54 AM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote:
> Keeping this cat from coming out of the bag with the holiday sales > season come up makes a lot of marketing sense. All that ad money > portraying Microsoft as stubborn and entrenched in it's own selfish > policies at the expense of an uninformed public would backfire if > there was a hint that Apple had it's own rigid agenda to keep the > consumer misdirected. The average buyer is not aware, and, more importantly, DOES NOT CARE that MacOS X can be run on an Intel. In reality, it cannot, as MacOS X is dependent upon a Intel motherboard which has EFI built into it from the git-go (all the usual suspect Intel motherboards are MBR motherboards). But, true Intel EFI motherboards are now available, although not from the usual distributors ... you have to buy these from Asia. However, as one experimenter discovered, just because you have a true Intel EFI motherboard does not mean that MacOS X will run on it. It won't. So, the EFI hardware component is actually unnecessary now, and most probably in the future. Those who have been following the OS X86 project know that it is now possible to boot a "street legal" retail DVD on an Intel MBR motherboard (ICH7, 8 and 9 are the most compatible). And, with the newly revised boot loader, it is possible to install MacOS X on such an Intel, to have the entire MacOS X be "Vanilla" (that is, NO modifications of any kind), for it to be bootable on an MBR Intel motherboard, and for that very same drive to also be bootable on a real Intel Mac (as there are no modifications to any MacOS module). Once this has been achieved at the 10.5.5 level, Software Update works on such an Intel just as it does on a real Mac. But, obtaining this very high level of compatibility is way, way above the head of the average Joe or Jane. In that specific respect, MacOS X86 is just a fly on one of Apple's many sh!ts. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
