[Ham-Mac] MacOS X x86 Intel Support

[Michael Carter]

Well, just to clarify, Apple's position is that OS X will not be  
supported running on anything other than Apple hardware. Phil  
Schilling made that clear at the State of the OS address after the  
keynote. This doesn't mean that it can't be done, just that it won't  
be supported. Apple will never sell a version of OS X that you could  
just install on a partition in a generic pc environment, however,  
enterprising developers have already written emulation software (e.g.  
PearPC) that will emulate the PowerPC so that OS X can actually boot  
on a PC (albeit very slowly).

If Steve won't sell merchandise emblazoned with Apple logos because  
he's concerned about controlling the quality of the articles the logo  
goes on, you can rest assured he'll never condone OS X running on any  
other environment natively. :)


mike at apple

PS (this email represents my personal views only, not those of Apple).

On Jun 6, 2005, at 8:08 PM, KD5NWA wrote:

> If it runs in regular PC motherboards with BIOS on it then I  
> wouldn't mind running OS X on some of my present PC's.

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