Do a search for Hackintosh. I dont know much about it but its possible from what I heard.
Mr_Ditters
Yeah, some people have hacked OSX 10.5 to run on hardware that is used in macs (such as GTX280's, E8400's ect.). It is illegal though and probably not worth the trouble.
cnet ran a video showing them running osx on a windows pc, they said that it was iffy and they werent to blame if you get in trouble, to answer your question, yes its possible but you have to jump through some flaming hoops first
Nope. Reasons why: - Genuine Apple parts are pricey from the few places that will even sell such things to the public. They're only meant to be sold to authorized repair shops. - Custom form factor means that an actual Apple Logic Board wont' fit in your $10 case, either. - Even if by some chance you manage to part-match the same stuff that is in current intel-based Macs part for part, there is also the issue that Apple Macintosh computers - and OS X - expect that stuff to communicate with EFI firmware, which as far as I know, no "PC parts" manufacturer will ever do, even though EFI is backward-compatible with the antique x86 BIOS (or at least you can hot-install the appropriate plug-in for it on a motherboard). - Remember Palladium, that hardware-level DRM TPM chip that people were screaming bloody murder about? Well... while not directly used for anything once booted, my theory is that that chip is at least activated at some point to validate that the hardware being run is genuine Apple hardware. No chip? no boot-up. - The kernel OS X is based on is indeed open-source, but it's worth about as much as that without all the surrounding components that make OS X functional and usable. And A LOT of said stuff is NOT even remotely open-source, and would require some (illegal) reverse-engineering to get it to work on a non-approved platform. If you really want OS X and you want to see what it's like, get a Mac Mini to start with. Me? If I could, I'd get the Mac Pro without a second thought, and slap in eVGA's GTX 285 to get it rockin'.
[QUOTE="codezer0"]Nope. Reasons why: - Genuine Apple parts are pricey from the few places that will even sell such things to the public. They're only meant to be sold to authorized repair shops. - Custom form factor means that an actual Apple Logic Board wont' fit in your $10 case, either. - Even if by some chance you manage to part-match the same stuff that is in current intel-based Macs part for part, there is also the issue that Apple Macintosh computers - and OS X - expect that stuff to communicate with EFI firmware, which as far as I know, no "PC parts" manufacturer will ever do, even though EFI is backward-compatible with the antique x86 BIOS (or at least you can hot-install the appropriate plug-in for it on a motherboard). - Remember Palladium, that hardware-level DRM TPM chip that people were screaming bloody murder about? Well... while not directly used for anything once booted, my theory is that that chip is at least activated at some point to validate that the hardware being run is genuine Apple hardware. No chip? no boot-up. - The kernel OS X is based on is indeed open-source, but it's worth about as much as that without all the surrounding components that make OS X functional and usable. And A LOT of said stuff is NOT even remotely open-source, and would require some (illegal) reverse-engineering to get it to work on a non-approved platform. If you really want OS X and you want to see what it's like, get a Mac Mini to start with. Me? If I could, I'd get the Mac Pro without a second thought, and slap in eVGA's GTX 285 to get it rockin'. -The parts they use now are the same as PC's (Intel processors ect.) -People hack something to fool the software (there was a similar hack to get windows 7 running with a lenovo OEM key) -The OS is hacked, it has been changed and probably to get it running without the chip -of course it has been reverse engineered, that is the only way to get it to work with a pc I think i'll stick with my current hardware and os (windows 7) and if i want to get OSX i may just skip that and go to a linux distribution
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