More unholy experimentations with my XPS M1210...

... that, or I am just plain bored.

Anyhow, I've been experimenting with MacOS X last year ever since Apple announced the move to the Intel architechture last year, and I've tinker around with it with the last notebook I had.

The OSx86 Project and Wiki was also of great help too.

(As always click on the photos below to get the full sized version)

On my previous Toshiba Tecra S2, I'd given 10.4.1 and subsequently 10.4.5 a try.



I thought I'd give one of the latest 10.4.7 a spin on my newer XPS M1210 one year later (and seeing how the 60GB HDD is my current OS test lab-rat).






For those of you that might be interested, almost everything was installed and detected as their corresponding Apple counterpart. However, the big miss is still the Intel PRO/Wireless chipset support (since Apple uses Broadcom chipsets for their AirPort Extreme series... so you might actually have better luck if you ordered a Dell TrueMobile card instead since they are based on Broadcom).

The 10/100Mbps Ethernet and Dell Wireless 355 Bluetooth are both detected and working (both Broadcom chipsets), however the audio (might be fixable with generic AC97 codec drivers, will look into it later), 5-in-1 media card reader, and the Logitech webcam doesn't work.

There is no Core Image or Quartz Extreme enabled with the NVIDIA graphics as people are still busy working on a driver set over at MacVidia. The GUI is therefore actually quite laggy, with mouse movements rather choppy.


For now, I think I'll stick to Vista RC2.

 

How long did that take you?

 

are you on a core 2 duo? the name implies it only works on 32 bit.

 

I thought the whole reason of buying a PC is so you didn't have to use OSX
Interesting though.

 

Great. Always wanted to try out mac os. Could you please post the installation procedure? Also can u multi boot back to windows?

Thanks

 

Remember all, that when you buy a copy of Apple OSX by opening it you agree to their EULA which says:

2. Permitted License Uses and Restrictions.
A. This License allows you to install, use and run one (1) copy of the Apple Software on a single Apple-labeled computer
at a time. You agree not to install, use or run the Apple Software on any non-Apple-labeled computer, or to enable
others to do so.

Also, in order to get it to work you have to reverse-engineer OS X and its copyright protection that ties it to Apple computers. That violates the DMCA. You can throw in the fact that since most people cannot reverse-engineer OS X themselves, they would have to download a copy that was ready to install, which is illegal too. So three illegalities right off the bat.

If you really, really want to run OS X buy a Mini Mac for $499 or so. I'm going to close this topic now, Google is your friend if you want to find more information on this, but we can't let this site be a source for information Apple would consider illegal.