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wow…
i didn’t know that was even possible….
and damn quick….

Wow. I think it’s so idiotic that OSX isn’t available for PC by design. It is so typical for industry types to try to wish the problem away, and simply ignore a legitimate user demand. If Apple truly wants to compete against M$, why the hell not make a PC version?

The only thing I can think of is a back-door deal that allows Apple to survive regardless of the market’s state while M$ avoids another antitrust lawsuit.

I hope people hack the hell out of it!!!

Apparently you have to have OSX (Tiger) already running on your PC.

True. Apple will never release a PC version of OS X. The whole point of Apple and OS X is its stability. This is possible because Apple knows what it puts on their machines inside out.

Why the hell would anyone want to install a piece of crap software on their pc? I say F**** mac and hail windows XP

Wow!! That is amazing! Can’t wait to install it on my lenovo laptop…just to see how it looks. Even though I hate mac…this could be a fun experience.

HAHA

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@SEAMAN:

That is such total BS. First off, it’s not Apple’s job to support eighty bajillion pieces of hardware. Second, if they released a version of OS X for beige box PCs, (discounting the fact that it would cut into their hardware sales, though as badly as some would think) the wave of adoption that would follow would encourage hardware makers that don’t already provide OS X drivers to do so.

Yes, releasing OS X for beige boxes would cut into Apple hardware sales. But the margins on hardware are crap to begin with, especially compared to the margins on software, and the sales of OS X for beige boxes would more than make up for lost hardware sales.

I fully believe that Apple realizes this, and that they’re going to do it eventually. Why? Because Steve Jobs says they aren’t. Recall that this is the same guy who spent years touting the superiority of PowerPC over x86, and claimed that video support on the iPod wasn’t going to happen.

Apple is not a stupid company; with their market share increasing daily, and their coffers stuffed with cash, they have to know that very, very soon they will have the ability to give Microsoft something very, very big to worry over.

Wow, that was fast

There are two reasons why there will likely never be a PC release of OS X. One is old, one is new.

First, Apple got burned by depending on third party applications in the very early years of the mac. The result was Windows, and slow or no development of Office for the mac. Microsoft wanted them to make the Mac System for the Intel system, Apple said no, and, well, the rest is history. Whether that institutional memory should have any effect on their decision making now or not, it does.

Second, Apple makes pretty decent profits on hardware. (In fact, they make more profits than Microsoft excluding their monopoly Windows and Office) and is a much smaller company.

If you haven’t seen the news, their formula seems to be working. Their profits are up, their market share, especially among laptops is up, so, if it ain’t broke don’t fix it.

Just from a practical point of view, having to support less hardware makes it easier for the OS to be stable.

Having said that, I’ve run 10.4 on a PC and if it had better drivers, it would have been a great machine.

Apple has never been an OS (Software) company like Microsoft. With all the components manufacturers would still need to produce machines with the proper components.

Heh, “elite OS” — more like “Elitist OS.” Apple sucks because of the fanboys.

@seaman

Exactly. Apple is a hardware company. They make software only so people will buy their hardware. End result – they won’t ever support OSX on anything else. But i betcha they don’t get too upset about people porting it if they buy a copy first. If it works like crap because of driver issues, but people otherwise like it, they might be inspired to buy a Mac. And that should make Cupertino happy.

@YodaMouse

Read up on the history of MS and how they became the dominant OS. In short, they let people pirate Windows and that resulted in a huge, huge market share slice. Apple is very smart in this area and are following the same tactic. They dont officially support OSX on x86, but they don’t make it hard to install on x86 either, thereby gaining a foothold in the PC world for free. If they released a commercial version of OSX for PCs at this stage, they’d have to compete with MS…and no one that has competed with MS for the PC desktop has survived. Apple is just taking the intelligent road to desktop dominance.

I see a step four

If Apple would do it themself and allow a version to run on PC, this would be a serious treat to MS. Not to forget a major money cow…. But I guess they still don’t get it and are too greedy so they want the software and hardware sale. History has prooven that software pays more than hardware.

Just nice!

Why not just get a mac?

If you want Leopard so bad, just buy a MAC and get full support.

Also, keep in mind, Apple makes most of its money from selling hardware (2k-5k) not software ($129) so it’s not in their best interest to make this OS available for PCs–while it would create more “mind share”, it wouldn’t necessarily move more Apple hardware (and may actually decrease their hardware sales–anyone remember the shortlived Apple clones?).

Done it !!
A nice DIY.. some detailed information may be more helpful

Apple won’t release a PC version of it’s OS because PC users are not as forgiving as Apple fanboys, and because it won’t take long for all the holes to start doing appearing and for message board posters to start adapting Mr Jobs’ name to $teve Job$

Can I use computer with Athlon64 and GeForce for this?

Seaman,
Its the lack of drivers and such that keeps it nice and speedy on apple hardware because they can strip down the kernel so much.

Oh get over yourselves.
You want a Mac, go buy one. Simple, FFS.
The well known stability comes from precisely that – Mac OS knows the hardware it’s running on. Big whoop.

i guess seaman just kinda said that,,, i skipped his comment before posting

Is there anyway to partition this and run vista on the same computer?

Already!!!

perhaps a vm version of it ?

Apple doesn’t release a PC version because they can’t support it. They don’t release a PC version because if they did, it could be the end to their laptop and desktop lines. PC vendors would be quick to develop drivers (as they were with Vista) for their products, thus returning stability to the OS. Let us not forget that Apple frequently releases buggy models that are victims to frequent system crashes (I know, I have one). The only way Apple laptop and desktops would be able to survive is to quit overcharging consumers and slash prices in order to compete with other hardware manufacturers.

very interesting and very soon, yet another slap in the face to lil steve just like appletv hack and iphone unlock. Hail to windows xp, hail to the technoviking, fcuk vista, oublii mac.

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Hey, i have a question about leopard on my PC. If i were to do this switch-a-roo for my PC can i have both windows XP and Leopard on my computer. For example: can i boot my computer up two ways, one with leopard if i wish and one with xp if i wish? if so can i have all my saved shit on my XP side or vis versa?
Thanks in advanced,
-Ryan

I don’t its going to work!!!

All pirating is WRONG. It might not seem like stealing, but it sure is. You wouldn’t go into the apple store and steal a copy of Leopard, what makes people think they can download it? Oh well, what can I say, karma catches up to those that do wrong. Everyone’s in the game to make money, why screw apple for giving us a great product? Oh well, what can I say, karma catches up to those that do wrong.

Does this work with AMD CPU’s or strictly Intel chips?

A torrent has been uploaded here with the files needed. Enjoy!

http://www.demonoid.com/files/details/1403802/6811694/

@MCALLISTER

Don’t talk about the stock market unless you know what your talking about. The share price of a given company’s stock cannot be directly compared to the price of another company’s. Take the share price and multiply it by the total number of shares and you’ll see your mistake.

Apple is indeed a hardware company and a software company and an entertainment company. Maybe soon to be a label/publisher.

An Apple computer will run 10.5 and Win *. Sweet!!

I still use my PC to convert audio and video to a format that will work on my Apple computer and Nano.

I have as many computers as I want to have. Maybe some night I will open a bottle of Pinot Noir, Roll a fatty and see if I can boot Leopard on a Dell or something else that would be cool.

This whole horses are better than trucks thing really depends if you are on pavement or on grass. I prefer to have both.

Sometimes it is fun to drive the truck into a little bit of dirt.
Sometimes it is fun to ride the horse into town.

You should be careful about pledging your loyalty to anything. Especially if that thing has stockholders and a marketing department.

Things do change. The revolution will end yet again we will still have choices I hope.

I really never liked Linux but I am happy that it still is an option.

If the truck (MS) and the horse (Apple) both decide they don’t want to play someday then walking (Linux) will absolutely still be an option.

It may hurt like hell for a while but won’t sitting in front of a truck or behind a horse hurt worse?

….I do own an Intel Apple and a AMD PC. My horse has a truck in it?

I use Linux for cracking wep.

I did not buy anything from the open source community. If I was to pay money for software they would be the first to know.

Trust nothing. Try everything. Be creative and have fun. When you are dead you will be visited as often as you visit your dead. You will be missed as many minutes per day as you miss your lost.

Change things around. Try every new way that you want. These operating systems did not come out of a vacuum. Mutation, imitation and evolution are the best things that ever happened to you or them.

Just one opinion. Get a tattoo if you are really sure.

The point of running a Mac is to have an operating system that works wonderfully with the Apple hardware. By installing this on a PC, you’re just one step closer to running a crash-prone operating system like Windows…well, ok, you’re still ALOT more secure since you have a UNIX base and a microkernel, but that’s another forum thread

@ about 20 or so different people who said something to the effect of: “Apple is a hardware company; if they sell OSX for PCs then it’ll ruin the company”:

What?

Have you ever heard of something called… an iPod? an iPhone? a little thing called Final Cut Pro? or Logic Studio? Hmm. I mean, really, it’s not cheaper to make an iPod than a computer… and they don’t sell 100X more of these products than they do computers… and they don’t make a killing off of every iPhone sold AND the actual 2-year agreement…. [sarcasm]

Selling OSX for use on PCs would not ruin the company. Quite to the contrary.

And, by the way… Apple is a hardware company selling overpriced crap? I seem to recall two programs that were industry standards in their respective fields [Avid, Pro Tools], and Apple made SOFTWARE that was so full-featured and ridiculously low priced compared to those two programs that it FORCED Avid and Pro Tools to DRASTICALLY lower their prices.

P.S.~ According to the Evil Steve Jobs, Apple is a software company. [See D5: All Things Digital 2007]

@Karthik Kastury
I can’t agree more. I believe that Apple Inc. is not a company that sells OS X to the masses. It designs and produces it’s own type of computer and should have the right to retain it’s operating system within this circle.

Apple is a very different company compared to Microsoft which produces operating systems for other computer companies to install in their own machines.

Many still do strike up the common topic of Apple competing with Microsoft even when they are totally different types of companies–alike comparing an apple with an orange. But anyhow, I’m honestly against OS X (PC). It’s like an oxymoron.

But anyway, I respect the speed of the hackers in churning out this crack. What is done is done (:

It’s sad to hear and see that so many of you PC users are envious of the obviously more stable, secured and superior Mac OS X but do not have the guts to admit it.

In short, Apple is for the elite, PC is for the rest full stop. So stop stooping so low as hacking a Mac OS to run on PC. Get a Mac.

Apple neither a hardware nor a software company. Its both: they make complete solutions for the needs and creativity of their customers. They design the hardware, they write the OS and they also make quite a few applications that fulfills most computing needs. Some cone with every mac, like iLife, while others are cheap office alternatives like iWork or proffesional apps like Final Cut Pro.

Saying apple is a hardware company and not a software one is overly simplistic. In short, Apple uses the hardware profit in order to be creative in their research+development division.

@KC

>But the margins on hardware are crap to begin with, especially compared to the margins on software, and the sales of OS X for beige boxes would more than make up for lost hardware sales.

not for apple – they usually sell their hardware for twice the price they buy it for from the manufacturers like Quanta etc. Double the win by just adding “some special software” that turns beige box into a mac – the point is the synergetic combination of hard- and software. And that’s why Apple will never ever release an OS X for the crowds. They already did that in the past and they learned: licensing MacOS to thirds is just a crappy idea.

i have original mac os x disc..
not a patched.
please tell me or mail me the instruction to install it on pentium 4 processor.. not mactel…
\and with dual boot to windows Xp

Why won’t Apple sell OS X to 3rd party vendors or directly to PC owners? Many argue that it is because Apple makes its money from hardware but that’s not it at all. Microsoft has proven that the real money is in software. So why does Apple continue to refuse? Simple, they learned something else from Microsoft.

The PC world is an anarchy. Anyone can make a motherboard, a video card, a nic, a hard drive interface or a power supply. As long as the device meets the uniform standards it should work. But it isn’t quite as simple as all that. Microsoft engineers are forced to keep a huge lab of PCs so that they can endlessly test Windows against the myriad of combinations that are possible in the PC world. A sad truth little known, Windows has lines and lines of code that get run only in the presence of specific devices so that Windows won’t crash when a poorly specced but popular device is installed. Or when two otherwise ok devices are installed in the same computer.

Apple avoids this by controlling the design process. While PC fanboys and cheapskates complain that Apple is thwarting their desires, Apple’s supposedly closed and proprietary system allows Mac owners a far better user experience – hardware and software. And that is why we Mac fanboys are willing to pay a premium. Because we know the value of things, not just the price.

DAMN !!!!! …. i cant wait to try it !!!!

Does anyone know if the eula for leopard prohibits these changes? I would buy the legitimate copy if I could download the hacks to tinker with.

God, will people stop asking about Apple making OSX available for PC’s?

Apple ALREADY did the clone thing and it nearly bankrupted the company. Microsoft can AFFORD to allow their OS on multiple platforms. They ONLY sell software!

Allowing Mac Clones always was and always WILL BE the stupidest idea in computer marketing!

Seriously guys, look it up.

http://www.archive.org/details/MacClone95

@OB81: It was availible 3 days before apple released leopard!!! I had it runnig about 1d 2h before releasing…

i dont think ppl are going to install mac on their PCs for its “ease of use” or some horse shit thing you can EASILY do with it

but ppl are sure gonna install to see how it feels and looks……….thousands of enthusiasts install linux on their PCs everyday but very few actually continue to use it as their main OS

Ive spent 9 years working as a PC/Network tech and then later as a .NET programmer. I quit the field about 3 years ago and have been learning audio engineering. I resisted the switch to a mac because I thought they were so much more expensive and then I would have to buy a proTools rig, etc etc. Why spend all that money when I could do it with other software on a PC?

I found that a PC (and the software for it) just couldnt cut it. I thought it was the software and tried ProTools for PC. Couldnt get it to run right or record anything reliably.

I saved some money and I just made the switch and bought a Mac Pro about a month ago.

Ive never been happier. Runs stable, secure, doesnt crash, and doesnt bother me. PT runs beautifully. It does what I tell it to without 3 confirm & warning dialogs. Money well spent.

So i wondered if it’s really more expensive. I spent about 3800 on my mac pro setup. A similarly spec’d rig (dual 2.66, 2 GB ram, 250GB system drive 500GB storage, 23 HD display) is nearly $500 more through Dell.

screw dlls & the registry.

“URS
What a lot of shitti comments. Apple OS X ist based on Unix. No way for a PC Version.
By the way: Apple is a software company. It is all about the software!”

you fucking idiot: unlike microsoft, who is a software company, apple is a hardware company.

c’mon guys, the reason there is no pc for the mac…..remember when they tried clones with the macintosh? didnt work. first thing jobs did was go back to basics. remember, apple is mainly in the hardware business. the software is dandy and extensive. however, if they make leopard work on a pc, its a whole can of whoop ass trying to keep up with the slough of hardware manufacturers that make crappy gear. they would be consumed alive trying to support it. their hardware is closed. so it works. period.

There are two reasons why Apple won’t put out a PC version of Leopard: 1.) the issue of quality control; 2.) if they did, Microsoft would immediately pull the plug on Office for the Mac, and that would kill the Mac’s viability in the corporate, governmental, and educational markets (just at the time when Apple’s market share is beginning to expand). iLife, Apple’s office suite, may be satisfactory for individual users, but it’s light years away from Office. There’s also the problem that OSX may lack a wide range of drivers for cards and peripherals which PC users take for granted. Then too, at the moment Apple has a great public image, but if people started running OSX on PC’s and things didn’t work out well, they’d blame Apple, and Apple simply doesn’t need the grief.

Three “easy” steps? Funny, I count 18 and easy doesn’t seemt to be the correct adjective.

Anyone who thinks it’s easy to run an app off a thumbdrive that MUST be named correctly is missing the whole point behind the philosophy of the Mac. Namely, that using a computer doesn’t have to be complicated if the engineers are doing their jobs right. So, if you think 18 steps are “easy” why are you bothering with Mac OS X? Upgrade to an OS that suits your expectations: Vista.

But if you’d like to use a computer that doesn’t fight you at every turn, get a Mac. That’s right, a Mac. Why? Because a computer is more than an OS and Macs are made by engineers who do their job well.

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Hey, can we be sure that this patched OS doesn’t have anything bad in it, like keyloggers, phone home software or other malware?

I wish you guys can make us a video about this, so we can follow it step by step. Thank you so much and great job!!!

does this hack allow you to dual boot vista and leopard?

I’m tired of hearing people that Mac OS X is just like crap and “Hey, why did you throw that amount of money for a Mac ?” Now all these people buy a PC every year, and for sure THEY spend much more money on computers that never work than I do. I’m a big fan of Mac and I really don’t want that people use illegal copies of Mac OS on PC’s. You want Mac OS, Buy a Mac. If you don’t, just stay with windows. I really don’t want too much people to have Mac OS because later its security will be compromised, just like windows was/is/will be !

Release Mac OS X as linux? There’s many APIs that would need porting to do such a thing. Bad, Silly, Stupid Idea. I thought you guys had, what’s it called, Beryl. Isn’t that enough?

Windows XP 4ever?

Puhlease. It might be 2002 for you, but we’re doing great here in the future.

Go ahead, run your torrented version of OS X on your McPC.

According to this hack, it is just as easy as installing Vista.

Why would you want to go through all that trouble to run Mac OS X Leopard on a plastic made ugly PC..?? Get a MAC! you idiots.

I want OS X on a tiny little notebook! A 5 and a half pound MacBook is just too big. And the MacBook Pros are even bigger!

So how do I name the USB drive to Patcher? Because in Windows Vista it is automatically changed to PATCHER (with all capital letters). Does that matter? And how do I fix it? Thanks for any help!

What sort of COMA do you all live in????What the FECK is OSX86.It,s OSX made to run on X86 hardware.More recent apples have x86″A la Pentium” hardware.You can get an Apple version of just about every MS product except for windurs, and there,s bootcamp etc ,so you can do just that.You can get a version of Linux that runs on Mac or X86;So why not Mac os on a PC. The endless selective attention here ,is akin to pure blindness and stupidity.Get a life you IDIOTS!

This is pretty interesting allthough, I do have a MacBook and I love it. I have Tiger and have ordered Leopard (which is coming this week maybe).

How do you find it working with different hardware setups, especially with different graphics cards than those shipped with current Mac-models? What I have read, it seems that you can’t put e.g. GeForce 8800GTX to a Mac Pro on the place of the lame GeForce 7300GT because Tiger does not support the 8800GTX (if you have Ubuntu installed on the same Mac, you can use the GF8800GTX on Ubuntu, but MacOSX don’t boot until you change the lame graphics card back).

Therefore the question is that does the Leopard support better cards than those sucking default card on Mac Pros? One of the reasons why I have only a Mac laptop is that it makes no sense to buy a lower spec (supposed to be more capable) Mac than our living room PC (which has GeForce 8800GTX 768 MB) which is running Ubuntu just, to be able to run OSX. If the Leopard works with this card, then this gets a lot more interesting (of course the PC is not that stylish and fun as Mac, but anyhow, I could then maybe give a try for this hack just for fun, at least I could then verify if I could get someday a Mac Pro with a proper graphics card on it or is the driver support as bad in Leopard as it is on Tiger).

So, besides the comments about how everything is better and worse than everything else, has anyone actually tried this and are willing to share their experiences? Do any of the same programs work, like Office, or will those have to be installed all over again? What about the sound issue?

To the genious who says apple is worth 4 times that of microsoft because of their share price. When you grow up and get older, you may learn at some time that share price is not the value of a company. What matters is the actual market cap. The way this is figured out is by multiplying the share price by the number of actual share. If microsoft wanted a higher share price, all they’d have to do is a reverse split of shares. Look again, microsoft’s market cap is more than double apples, meaning they’re “worth” more than double apple.

Why put OSX in a PC?

Isn’t that like buying a Corolla just so you could put a Porsche engine in it?

Wouldn’t it be smarter just to buy a Porsche?

your comments are tooooooo funny!!!! bunch of looosers

many people like me will buy a copy of leopard and then use the hack or a torrent version. so we will actually own a license to use the osx. apple is just stupid about releasing the osx to the public — hardware issues aside. apple needs to figure out a model to be as profitable w/o relying on sales of overpriced computer hardware. if apple would sell osx to the public, w/in 6 mos, most people would be running dual or multi boot pc’s w/at least osx and some version of windows (maybe 2 versions for those of us who want to keep our xp) and maybe linux too. some people w/newer cpus would be running simultaneous boot systems. apple is just holding us back — that’s all.

hi, i heard that there´s a way that you can install both OS , XP and leopard, so that when you turn on your computer, you can choose where to start, either in Windows XP or Mac OS Leopard, but how??

thanks

ok. do you have to create a new partition on a current HDD inorder to install this? i tried doing this with Mac OS X Tiger but i only got as far as selecting a new partition (which i didnt know i had to create one)

Apple cant be a hardware company.
And it sure is a Software company.
There is no such hing as a factory or plant for Apple hardware. Asustek, the same company that makes Asus motherboards, is responsible for making Macbooks and iMacs.
That being said, Apple is definetely a pure software company.
Cheers!

With Leopard supporting Bootcamp, the software that allows intel based mac users to install Windows XP or Vista natively is already availible.
Mac hardware is fully supported in the windows operating system when Bootcamp is installed.

This is only making things go the other way, with less support.

Though PC’s are cheaper, Apple has made some of the most powerful machines in the world.

Running Bootcamp, I can play pretty much any high graphics game available for PC. All on an inch thick 2.16 ghz black macbook.

Go buy a mac, it’s more for the money.

Stop hacking fucking Mac OS X – it’s too good for crap like PCs. And windows is equally bad.

A list of some relevant points:

1) Steve Jobs knows what it is like to sell an OS for IBM derived PCs. His company NeXT sold OpenStep for PCs. I saw the booklet of compatible hardware configurations. It was over 100 pages long. It specified specific combinations of hardware that allowed the PC to be compatible. Otherwise you were on your own. Would Apple want to support a multitude of different hardware configurations if they didn’t have to? Absolutely not. Instead they support a well known set of hardware resulting in an optimized, integrated system of hardware and software. You can’t do that on a PC. Example: Despite Microsoft’s best efforts, plug and pray lives on. Only Macs have reliable plug and play to this day. (And yes, that does include the Mac Pro towers).

2) Mac OS X has no viable malware for two reasons:

(A) From the ground up it has UNIX quality security. Apple do indeed sometimes play catch up to Open BSD and Free BSD security features, but they get there eventually. Only these two UNIX variants have a better record of security than Mac OS X. No, Linux does not.

(B) The Mac hacker community is not malicious. It is deliberately helpful. When a hacker digs for and finds an OS vulnerability, it is common to then create a proof of concept piece of malware than can abuse it. But in the Mac community that is where the story ends. Nothing is released into the wild, at least so far. Even the two master hacker / FUD meisters Kevin Finisterre and IBS (or something like that) who held The Month Of Apple Vulnerabilities never wrote a viable piece of malware.

3) One of the great and stoopid anti-Mac myths is the ’security by obscurity’ nonsense. The fact is that if you add up the 55 old Mac OS malware plus the 9 proof of concept Mac OS X malware, then compare it to the total amount of malware for Windows, you find that there are over 80x more malware on a per user basis for Windows than Mac. What that says to me is that an awful lot of people have it in for Windows, OR Windows is incredibly insecure. The problem most certainly is NOT the lower market share of Mac OS X. (Note that I do consider Vista a quantum leap improvement by Microsoft in attention to security, at long last).

4) Apple have always been an integrated hardware AND software company. That is how they started with the first release of the Apple II and that is how they remain today with the Mac, iPods, iPhone, Apple TV, AirPort Base Station, etc. Most of the peripheral software they write has been for their own hardware, with the exception of QuickTime, iTunes, AppleWorks, FileMaker and a few other odds and ends that also run on Windows. If there is one key word to sum up Apple it is: INTEGRATION. That is one of the engines that makes their products top-of-the-market quality.

5) Apple already tried selling Mac OS 8 for 3rd party hardware. The vendors included Power Computing, Motorola and UMAX. It was a complete failure from Apple’s point of view. First, it lost Apple profit. Second, they lost control of the hardware platform such that many of these 3rd party machines were known for their problems. People keep trying to compare Apple with Microsoft like once could replace the other. No! The two companies are fundamentally different. What we need is another Apple and another Microsoft so we have more competition in the market! As I am ever saying: Competition is the father of innovation.

6) People like to compare computer prices merely by comparing shelf prices. That never worked. Add to that ROI (return on investment) and TCO (total cost of ownership). If you fish around the net with Google to understand these concepts, then take a look at every total price comparison between Windows PCs and Macs, you’ll find that Macs have always been LESS expensive. The ‘Elite Priced Mac’ is a myth. The price comparison studies will tell you why. One reason is again, integration.

I’ll keep my Mac with Apple hardware and integrated Apple software, thanks. I learned computing on DOS and Windows PCs. That’s why I stick with Mac. And when something better comes along, I’ll defect to them as well. ;-Derek

sweet it works on pc now, we can all run leopard now haha jk, who ever hacked it to work is pro

I still hate macs, even though they look nice, pcs still own with xp and vista lol.

Ok all I have to ask is, if you like OS X Leopard so much, and it is amazing, why would you waste your time putting it on something so lame as a PC? If you like PC so much then stand by your terrible operating system Vista. And with me being a mac kid I feel the same when it comes to people putting XP on a Mac as well, just noting.-Clark

I would totally drop all of the Microsoft software crap in an instant if Apple decides to make their OS run on PC…

Except for my very first computer, I have ALWAYS built my own computers and like to have MY choices of what I want in MY computer…

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If apple makes all of their money off of hardware only. Then their software must be crap. I’d rather use windows, and if i’m going to use unix, i’m not going to use osx, i’ll use freebsd, which is free, and if i don’t like it then that’s it.

There are a few here you have it! Apple if first and foremost a hardware vendor. The reason that OS X exists is to power there hardware. They are NEVER! going to release a pc version of OS X. Doing such would cause a huge hit in the wallet!

Incredulous you are so smart, thank you for the excellent post. I am a PC user and I get tired of Mac users claiming “it just works” or “why buy a corolla to put a porsche engine in it” (referring to the OSX on a PC). People claim Apple/Mac is a godsend which it is not, people have hacked both Windows and OSX, plenty of people have complained of both. Neither is greater or lesser because they are on 2 different spectrums.

OSX – Smaller userbase, claimed to be solid (well of course it is because it has less people to cater to), less drivers and expandability, a LMAO-firewall attempt on Lep

Windows – Ginormous userbase, hacked serveral times (because its in the hands of every hacker), driver support for 99% of products on the market, a little behind on the GUI, ahead on security and flexibility

The argument “Mac is for media, PC is production” has been phased out, Mac tries to keep up with the outdated versions of Office, PC tries to keep up with Media Center and such.

The argument “Macs are cute, PCs are ugly” have any mac users ever seen an alienware, a falcon northwest, a liquid cooled super computer?

One thing I can say MS has pwned Apple every round…Price. Apple uses its proprietary shaft to get every dime (in most cases thousands) from people for an Intermediate style PC. You can get dual-core PCs for less than $500 these days, add your widescreen, GPU, extra ram and you are around $1000. Which is still not near the base price of $1200 for a Mac.

Microsoft and Apple will always be a debate but clearly the arguments made are becoming too close to ever call a winner.

Hack Attack : Install Leopard on your PC in 3 easy steps

Macs Can Run Windows. But PCs Can’t Run Mac. Probably Because Macs Suck So They Want Their Computers To Have “Full Functionality”. F**k Mac Hail Windows.

HEY!
I try to understand why that the drive label must be “Patcher”,
and how to rewrite the the drive label ??
my e-mail is jcoco@126.com
please!

OK, now where do I get the patched dvd image and the zip containing the patch???

Can any one tell me where i can get pached leopard DVD and that pach? Plese!

Can anyone tell me where can i get pached leopard DVD and that pach? Please!

To macfags telling people to buy a mac: We don’t want to spend more money on hardware just for a better OS

To winfags saying how Mac sucks: Why the fuck are you reading this?

To the people trying to find out how to do this: Wait a while for the hackers to develop a better way to do this. This requires a dedicated PC specifically for Leopard (no dual-booting) and driver support is going to be sketchy at best.

hey, I’m just a new boy!
I don’t know if I could ask this question here or not.
does anybody know where I can download a “leopard”.
I found some rapidshare links but I don’t have an account yet and I cannot pay for it. can you help me?

then.. i put in my dvd and reboot..
press f12
boot from cd-rom

boot from cd…

then.
it show “press any buttom if you want to install macosx”(about this -.-)
then i press spacebar
Darwin loading x86 (about this -.-)

when it finished . my computer reboot
but i cannot select Language and make sure you select Customize and you need to deselect all the packages that are displayed.

what happen?
can somebody help me please?

should i plug in my USB drive?

DOES ANY ONE KNOW WHERE I CAN GET THE PATCHER FILE
AND HOW TO MA THE PATCHED DVD PLEASE HELP WITH THAT.

THX =/

If you’re from canada, and get that dumb demonoid canadian user restricted access message, use proxify.com / or the-cloak.com

There’s a bunch of other services, google it!

What were they thinking trying to stop canadians from going on demonoid??!

where is the download link ?

I’m downloading the image now, but how does one burn 6.5GB on a single layer DVD?

What software do I use to create an HFS partition?

Get a life. get a mac.

Where do i get the image file? it would be a good idea to reveal how and where to get the required supplies. please reply to kaspyr.jansen@gmail.com

Incredulous reply looks like a drop of reason in a sea of crap

What a pity

The comments from the Macophiles are priceless. Clueless, but priceless. Nice commentary Incredulous, and DEAD ON! You Apple blowhards need to grow up. “lame PC” How about one of you tell me what is lame about my custom built compared to your Mac? NOTHING. I got to hand pick my components with the best there is, you don’t get that option and Apple doesn’t supply you with the best there is either.

So, if no dual-booting… Does Parallels work fine on Leopard on a PC? Anybody try this yet?

Wow!!

How everyone is smart:) “They aren’t making it available for your bull PC cause they can’t support it”. I didn’t get it the first time, the second time, … , the fiftieth time…etc.

You want osx? Buy a mac!! Plain and simple!

Wanna play with hacked version? Play with it, but don’t ask for support and don’t complain about functionality!

Hi Friend,

I read all the comments regarding Hacking.

I’ve assembled PC with Asus motherboard and Core2Duo Processor. I installed the OSX after downloading from the one of the forums. The image size was 6.6 Gb. It installed without any hassle and is running without applying any patch.

Can you guys please stop with saying “mac sucks, hail windows” or “windows sucks, mac rule”whitout give a good reason why is/isn’t.

Mac (and other UNIX things like Linux ofcourse) IS safer, windows was never made for internet, xhat makes security wasn’t te point. UNIX is made for internet.
So face it: windows ISN’T as safe as any UNIX-system.
Windows is more used (because of a good marketing tactice (or luck) and is was cheaper (I say was, windows vista now isn’t realy cheap)) so it’s supported more.
Me, I think windows quite sucks, because it’s expensive, vista has nothing new (free beryl for linux is even better), is expensive and is one big bug.
If I had the money i would buy a mac and dual boot mac & Ubuntu (linux). Now I use only ubuntu, windows is too useless and it always want to remove my linux, so I just removed it.

Is there any other torrent site that has the Patched Imaged file and usb files now that demonoid is down

So I just wasted a good portion of my life reading all this screaming back and forth of which OS is better or worse, but it honestly depends on what you want to do. Every OS has it’s own quirks and strong points. I think this project is totally awesome. I’d love to do it myself, but I’m running an AMD and there’s little/no support for it. I currently triple-boot Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Ubuntu Linux. I think OS X is great, and I’ve always been a Windows guy until just a few months ago. I can’t afford a Mac, so that’s what makes this so cool, I can’t wait until the support gets better (and I’d even be willing to pay for the legit copy of OS X to patch). For me it’s not about which OS is “the best.” If I want to game or need compatability, I boot XP, If I want to just boot up and check my email or write a paper, I boot Ubuntu. (Vista isn’t really anything more than a pretty shell to XP, and Compiz Fusion for Linux looks prettier anyway. I just kind of have Vista so I can answer questions from all my friends who use it). So if/when I buy a Mac, it won’t be so I can run OS X on it and “screw windows/linux,” I’ll quad-boot and use them like I do now, each for what it’s best at. No operating system is even close to perfect, but they’ve all got their strong points. Just praise those rather than religiously defaming the weak points. Now most people aren’t as involved as me, and aren’t willing to switch out so many operating systems, they just want something that works. From my experience, they all work just fine for most people. The fact is: Vista costs $100+ for an upgrade, Leopard costs $100+ but requires expensive hardware, and Linux (whichever flavor suits your fancy) costs $0 (but I do acknowledge there is a trade-off of user-friendlieness). So the decision is yours, go for the pretty and expensive Mac/Leopard combination, or the not-as-pretty and not-quite-as-expensive PC/Vista combination. Just pick what you want and go with it. I’ve rambled much too long, but honestly, just shut up people, respect the ongoing work of hacker-techies the world over. Or don’t, what do I care, just don’t clog the internet with your angry rantings.

i need patch file for USB drive

To anybody who has done this:

1.Did all your software, drivers and programs work?
2. Are you able to dual boot with win XP or does leopard install over XP?
3. Can I use a external HD (in place of the Flashdrive) and creat a large partition and install leopard on it?

Thanks

Nice article, simple steps, however where is the Patch zip file?
Tom

i’d be keen to try this out to give the big spotty kitty a spin before i shell out a shitload on over priced albeit sexy looking hardware.

When it comes down to performance vs cost.. macs suck big hairy steve jobs balls. their lack of customisability makes them weak systems.

i wanna try osx out to see if it’s idiot proof setup is worth the extra cash.
everyone in my industry swwears by macs, has the same indie outfit and frequents the same coffee shops. i personally prefer espresso over cappucino.. i want my caffine in me without the crappy creamy veneer…

thats why this project is worthwhile… it will help me figure out whether i can tolerate the un customisable crap that leo saddles you with. if i can… i will buy a mac (tho i will never be a faggot – read mac user – cos i see my hardware and software as tools)… not social movements. i just want the most efficient tool for the best price.

one thing ive noticed about the mac users here… they all get really stupid and insulting whereas the windows users tend to be alot more open minded. why this is… maybe the wind ruffled their hair or they spilled cream on their macbook matching clothing.

remember.. its not what you have and what you run on it, it all comes down to productivity this project allows users to tfind out for themselvves instad of hearing all the marketing bullshit.

kudos to all the hackers that did it.

Isn’t this illegal?

Hi. I get an error post installation when i type -s to go into verbose mode. A long sring of text is shown (basically showing loading of different files) but finally it shows “ERROR: FireWire unable to determine security-mode: defaulting to full secure.” and something like that. Pls, pls, pls help urgently! Thanks in advance.

PROBLEM: LOAD ALL THE DRIVERS BUT THEN STUCK IN ONE THERE!!!

Sorry i forget something, the installations stops on the last 9 minute of the installation process. I wonder how he can boot then, loool, well thats all, bye

hey i cant find the patched dvd anymore
i do have a 6.06 gb “.dmg” file but i have no idea what to do with it
i cant even convert it to “.iso”
Can someone please help me what can i do with the 6.06 Gb file?

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Thank you very much!

Hey Karthik first let me congratulate you and thank you very much for this information you have shared with us…but i have a small question could my flash drive be formatted as ntfs or fat32 only???

but who cares Windows Vista is better anyways.

Hy, I need some help.
I’ve done correctly the install step, but when i’ve to patch it i can’t see my usb drive at /volumes .
I think that i’ve to mount it but i don’t know how.
Someone know how i can do?
Thanks a lot!

I think most people forget that we probably wouldn’t having this arguement If not for Bill Gates! He is the reason we all have computers… There Is no one I think in history that has made so much change in the whole world, to billions of people, businesses, education…

He is a genius! Bill Gates should get a regognition for the things he’s done and his company microsoft, even If you don’t like the windows os…

what about AMD users?! i’ve looked in every single forum/website and haven’t found a thing! if someone can pls help me… just email me at xmr.brownstonex@gmail.com

i’ll be waitin’

Mac OS X runs as good and as stable on a Intel PC as it does on a “Proper Mac” whatever that is. Any operating system should be able to run on any computer regardless of brand. There is no point to keep it to just one brand at all. Apple do this to lock you up to their hardware.
It should really be licenced, but if so, then made sure to work on Intel PC´s. It really only needs driversupport for hardware not used or supported by Apple´s own Intel macs today. It does run just like any other mac as it is when all works, like ethernet, sound.
You won´t notice that you are not using an computer with an Apple logo on it.
Also, if you go and buy the Mac OS X 10.5, you have every right in the freaking world to do whatever you want with it at home on your comp. No company in the world makes laws!
If you hack it and patch it at home and don´t share that info, then it is NOT illegal at all.
Funny thing is, that on many Windows Vista certified machines or hardwarde, it runs better with OS X then it does with Vista.
If you like monopoly, and supporting companies that want to keep standards closed, then YOU are then one with a problem.
To say it won´t be as stable, and run as well on nonapple hardware is nonsense. An Apple computer is nothing more then a PC anyway.
It´s all Intel inside. Apple just does not use all the Intel hardware, and therefore some things needs to be patched or have drivers written to it, but it works all the same. Some people just don´t want to hear this because they wasted loads of money and bought a lie.
Good Luck to all!

hey can someone help me?
I done the step 1, i have the “patched” DVD image called “ToH_x86_9a581_RC2.iso”. I burned it to a DVD, and I booted it! But it “crashes”! In verbose mode I got this error:
Cannot apply ‘mDNSResponder’ profile: no such file or directory

I can’t boot the installer :’(
Please help me! My e-mail: staben@live.it or vinci_vista@hotmail.it
MSN: vinci_vista@hotmail.it
Please, help me!

I do not think that Apple has any intention of supporting standard PC’s. There is a great deal of open source unix development that would make hardware support on OS X a no brainer given the vast resources apple has when compared to OS that rely on open source.

I have spent years on Windows and Linux as standard desktop environment. Recent jump to OS X has significantly boosted my productivity in all areas. (Development, IT, Engineering Student, Network Installation, Standard Office Functions) I’m not some fan talking about the good looks, the OS is simply much more intuitive then Windows and offers most of the functions near and dear. Natively forwarding X11 is even easier then Linux! I think spaces implementation is a little clumsy when compared to gnome/KDE… I also have had 0 downtime in over a year. I have never gone a single year in windows without needing to reformat for some reason……. I don’t care if it is because of a small user base or proprietary hardware, I’m about the bottom line.

To People asking “why Apple doesn’t sell OSX for PC, such a shame!”
Well, Apple sells computers, selects a few good hardware to put in and codes a nice OS with relyable drivers in it. That’s one of the reasons why OSX is so stable and optimised : their coders don’t waste time with drivers issues for all the crap available in the world. A commercial OSX for PC should work with all machines, even the wairedest, like my tower with a laptop Amd Turion 64. With all graphic cards and so forth… All that work to sell more of a less relyable OS and less of their (better) but more relyable hardware. Not speaking of marketing considerations like a blured image of Macintosh in the public (=non-geak) a loss of exclusive flair that came with the design, quality, and price tag.

Hi,

OS X is just jazzed up unix, (BSD) it has drivers in place via darwin project , Linux covers drivers easy enough and is just as stable if not more so, I think Apple will release OSX for PC as it slowly releasing all its apps, quicktime itunes now safari.
Vista is forcing price reductions on hardware, making the mac look poor value

People should try a modern linux (kubuntu great) before OSX, there not much difference once you remove aqua.

If like gloss KDE4’s out soon.

Why pay for software, spend it on hardware.

“Mac can’t support OSX on a pc……”

can you IMAGINE! Mac can’t even support OSX on a mac.
If I ever have to ring apple support again i will slit my wrists.

Does Leopard have a problem with what video card you use? My download will be done in a few hours, and I’m going to put it on my desktop later. Right now I’m running an XFX 6800XT, but I’m looking at upgrading to a Radeon HD 2900GT. Will I have any problems with leopard working on those cards?

My full specs: Intel Q6600, 2GB DDR2 800 (soon to be 4GB), dual SATA DVD burners, I’ll put it on a 74GB raptor drive, and it would be nice if it could read/write to my 2x 250GB RAID0 drives, a creative sound card, and video capture card.

This is very exciting, I’ve been wanting a mac for a while, but the price has always turned me away. Thanks for making this available to us!

help me please
I need the
# The Patched DVD Image
# The zip file containing the patch

At home, I’ve been using Macs exclusively for three years now, and I’ve owned a bunch of iMac G4s, a Dual G5, a couple of PowerBook G4s and two first generation iMac Core Duos. I’m in the PC industry for more than two decades now.

To make it short: Windows XP systems in average are much more stable and faster than Mac OS X systems. This is especially true when you compare both systems on the very same hardware, in this case the Intel Macs. OS X requires on average more reboots than Windows XP. Vista is about on par with OS X Leopard.

What Windows does NOT have is that annoying rotating beach ball that appears on OS X all the time.

As for the reliability of the hardware: Anyone here ever heard of the notorious G5 freezes and the OS X “grey screen of death”? Anyone ever saw a “grey screen of death” while trying to watch a DVD on a PowerBook G4? No? Then you never used a Mac, fellows, or you are still in the ‘denial’ phase.

Usability: Well. Leopard has made a multitude of things WORSE. Try using the download stack when you have around 40 icons in your docks on a 20″ screen. You won’t even be able to click on anything in the download stack anymore. Dashboard has always been a useless piece of crap. Microsoft stole the gadget idea much better from Konfabulator than Apple did. What is Exposé good for? You better thake that “replace folder” question in Finder literally – which is the stupidest concept since the invention of file management. I almost never want to replace, I almost always want to merge, as Windows Explorer does it. Talking about the Finder: It got better in Leopard, but it sill sucks big time in general. Even the overhauled and crappy Windows Explorer in Vista does a better job.

And where is Java 6 on the platform that “makes Java a first class citizen” and claims to be the “best Java platform ever”?

And where are all the “secret features” Steve Jobs teased us with. I still haven’t found one.

Apple hardware is cheaper than a comparable PC? That was true in the first weeks after the switch to Intel, now it is only true for Mac Pros. Apple still has the advantage that direct comparisons are not always possible, because there are almost no iMac-class all-in-one-PCs available. On the other hand: Why should they? The basic PC concept is to offer expandibility, something Apple just does not want to offer to their customers. People would not “upgrade” to a new iMac every two or three years if they could just upgrade its hardware components, now would they?

Apple is selling a chain of closed systems, and the company does not like to share their cake. Microsoft acts very differently: The follow the “share and rule” approach; they let everybody do what they want as long as they can collect their Microsoft tax.

There is a lot of beautifully designed software available for the Mac, and usually that software offers much more usability than the competetion on the PC offers. However, it comes at a premium, and on the long run, you are much better off with the freedom of the PC.

The PC is not a supermodel as the Mac, but it knows how to cook, does the laundry for you and it certainly does not limit you to Windows or a certain hardware configuration. The PC gives you choice.

After three years, I am no longer a “Mac-Fanboy”, and I am no longer on a mission to talk other people into buying a Mac, either. Since January, my Mac at work is the perfect working horse — with Vista. At home, I dual boot into Windows XP only for gaming. (Gaming – now that is something Mac OS X is the worst imaginable platform for.) I’ve purchased so many expensive software licenses for OS X in the last three years, that it would be financial suicied to switch back to PCs.

Chances are, however, that I will buy an additional PC for gaming and real world programming (another area where OS X plainly sucks; Objective-C is deservedly a niche language, and Cocoa is Mac-only and therefor useless for me).

I will probably go on doing photo, audio and video processing on the Mac, because some of the software that I have is from Apple and thus Mac-only. However, Adobe would probably give me crossgrades back to Windows, which would make sense, because their software is actually faster on Windows. So maybe I will slowly migrate back on the long run, but I haven’t yet made that final decision.

Now about Hackintoshs: I can understand that many people are curious about it. But it is illegal, and OS X won’t give you ANYTHING you cannot have with a current GNU/Linux distribution. Try Fedora Core 8 “Werewolf”, for example. This distribution is much snappier on your hardware than OS X Leopard (yes, I have tried it on both my 17″ PowerBook G4 1,67GHz 2GB RAM -and- on my 20″ iMac Core Duo 2 GHz with 2GB RAM) and it even looks a lot better. The new Gnome desktop effects really make you “wow”. Both OS X and Vista just look old in comparison. If you don’t need commercial software like Photoshop or Final Cut Pro to make your living, go and learn to use open source solutions like The GIMP! or whatever else is there that you might need.

I believe in paying developers for their work (and that is because I once worked for a software company that went bankrupt, but you can still download our products from the edonkey network).

Do not pirate OS X. BUY a license and then fight with Apple over the “only for Apple-branded hardware” paragraph. Chances are that the current Apple EULA is not even legal in your country. It most likely isn’t in Germany, because you do not have the chance to read it before you open the software package. Another reason is that in Germany this kind of bundling hardware with software is also not legaly binding for end-users (refering to the so-called “OEM-ruling”, in which Microsoft lost their case).

People also should not hack any form of product avtivation. It is better to make the vendors suffer by neither buying nor distributing their crippled products. Of course, in the business world often enough you do not have an acceptable choice to such crippled software, so you have to buy it, because you need it to make money.

However, I do not see any reason at all why a person needs for example a Citrix Terminal Server, an Adobe Creative Suite or Microsoft Office for private or hobby purposes at home. Do not pirate. Get and use the cheaper or even free alternatives.

You Windoze fanboys crack me up. Leopard is one hell of slick OS. I general live in the LINUX world. Having to use Windoze boxes for compatibility testing makes me ill. Since I switched from a Windoze craptop to an MBP there is no looking back.

MAC OS9 sucked.. sucked bit time. 10.x is damn good OS, a real OS. Although I still spend most of my time in shell logging into servers having he GUI for processing my photography projects, communicating with pals and frankly.. just enjoying the thing, I can’t understand how any could tout any M$ Windoze product.

I’m no Apple appologist, they do plenty of crappy anti-customer stuff IMHO. However that does not detract from the fact 10.5 is a real joy to run.

There’s one thing you don’t know that you can do easly on mac! You can’t run Leopard on windows and have windows on it me i can i can have linux umbuntu redhat and all the other operating systems loser’s HAHA and pc is the suckiest thing iv every seen the speed of them suck like crap and the model’ are so much nicer! :0 beat that assholes

Install it! and you will just Love it! feels so good, FAST & everything about OSX is really good now i know what is an OPERATING SYSTEM should be don’t want that crap coming out of GATED ass guy and is 2 letter company!

Hey the coolest i have heard in near time

can wait no longer to get it installed on the Lenovo

this tutorial is fabulous n i really like it so much that i install it on my pc
thanx for sharing it

jasmine
tech-chek.blogspot.com

No offense, But this seems kinda backwards?

hello, where can i download The zip file containing the patch??? for copy to pendrive, another question, is necesary make a partition on HD of my pc, or the installer in leopard make it for me?, thanks” i am using a intel centrino core duo. run? thanks”"

will this work on AMD turion 64 X2 Also, I am really wanting this OS.
I am so tired of XP, It’s so slow.

all this macs are only pushing ther hardware not software is bullish
i work for them and i have to put ther shit together and let me tell all you know it alls
that its the same parts as a normal pc with an intel motherboard with intel chipsets from 945 gma to 955 gma and p34
along with pci express ati and nvidia video cards
the only difference is they add a chip to the motherboard to limit os x it self
no there not a hardware company cause they use the same ish as asus ibm hp and dell
so kill all that mac is better then windows nonsense
there both computers that crash or hav’nt crashed yet
the reason that windows runs great on a new intel mac is cause they are good mother boards
thats it
if they made there own specific hardware they would have the market but they dont so get the point
i do admit that they are faster now that moved over to intel and ive seen more people buying macs now to
but still in all my dell has a legit version of os x 10.5 on it with out no hacks or patches and windows as well and windows blows 10.5 out of the water
and for you nonbelivers
my dell was setup by apple not dell
so you aint sayin nothing
its just like steve said there will be no video support for ipods and g4 and g5 processors were better then intel chips witch made mac os x faster then windows lol

hey…
WILL THIS GUIDE WORK FOR A PC WITH AN AMD PROCESSOR???

thanks

But what about this… why wouldn’t Apple strike up an alliance with e.g., Dell where Dell offers a line of Mac OS PCs?! Apple could always out-innovate Dell with it’s products, not to mention extensions (iPod, iPhone, etc.) but a Dell Mac OS would offer a real added boost to the credibility of the Mac OS, also in the corporate market where big margins can be made…

I am a Chinese guy. I followed this instruction, but after step3,when system reboot, can not enter into OS. system show blackscreen ,the cursor shined…..

Unit: Dell M1330

I also try to install Mac X OS on another Dell machine-D620. but the unit installed the WINDOWS XP before. i also followed the instruction,after successfully installed,system can not enter into Mac X OS after reboot.

Hey, so my problem is that Darwin isn’t ’seeing’ my laptops SATA drive. What am I doing wrong? Do I need somethign special? I know vista and xp had issues with the motherboard not ’seeing’ sata drives, but leopard too?

Where would one get the patch dvd image? I don’t use torrent.
Cheers.

Hey,

I have installed Leopard succesful, but when I want to begin with Step 3 (Patching) there is always the same error:

Root device is mounted read-only

Does anyone know the solution of this problem?
Please answer!

paradise

yo people…please help me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i ran the install…everything went fine…then it asked me where to install MAC…i saw a cd with a red x…i knew that was my dvd that i’m booting from…and obviously i can’t install leapord on that…
but i saw no hard drive…
i went to disk utility and on the side where all the disks should be i saw my dvd again (that i’m booting from) but NO HARD DRIVE…

i don’t know why…i partitioned it on windows and created a partition for mac…but nothing works…i can’t see my hard drive…it’s like it doesn’t exist in the installation…
i have a SATA drive, not IDE…
please please help me guys, please …i want this to work so badly…

my email = rezcroll99@gmail.com
please someone email me if you know what’s wrong…thank you

If Mac is all about the hardware like I have read, (2k-5k) if you read the post there are more people willing to buy the software not the hardware. (Funny I could have sworn that people were thrilled about buying hardware…..yea really….). it may be more profitable selling software

The only way I want to port Mac OS X to a pc is that I may do Mac repair from my pc to Mac hardware, without having to buy an expensive piece of equipment, and be able to profit more from the people actually buy that expensive piece of hardware.

Question, if it costs more and it is rarer, will it cost more to service and or repair? To waste money or not to waste money that is the question.

P.S. I have owned a Mac before and the reason is that that machine was made to play with (it’s an expensive toy) could not get any production from it (waste of my money). All the tools needed are already made for pc not Mac. All you can do with a Mac is editing videos and pictures and is you don’t pay the 5 grand they want you to pay for the top of the line Mac? It will still crash and hang, for it does not have all the bells and whistles.

Guys i noticed some thing in the patching method , its done and executed in an preinstalled of Mac OS X … say Tiger (10.4) , how is that gonna help me or any other windows user , the only way to execute the patcher using the ./9a581PostPatch.sh command is in Mac terminal or Linux terminal it cant be done in windows CMD , so ho can i windows user patch the dmg image ???
any help please -> jozeaphe@gmail.com

I have AMD Turion tm 64 mobile technology, will i be able to run MAC on my laptop?

I’m interested in install leopard on a pc. Question is what Motherboard would be the most compatible with the lepard os. To hopefully avoid compatiblity problem, as much as possible.

Hi, I swear what u did is totally sick!!!
What i want ot knwo is that if this is a dual boot version with windows
or if its jsut Mac on the computer?

And if there is a way to dual boot?

Hi,

Thanks for the awesome tutorial. I’m a Mac-newbie so I’m not at all familiar with this process but I had problems like some of you and I found a way around them so I thought I’d post.

If you can’t see your drive listed, try going to

UTILITIES->Disk Utility

You need to create a partition for it to install. On Windows, this is done with a prompt. I’m guessing this isn’t done with a MAC. The rest should be self-explanatory.

The other problem I had was when I rebooted, after the install, and I took the F8 option and the -s mode, I could not get into the Flash Drive using the instructions. I had to type ‘exit’ at the console prompt and it booted back to normal setup screen. I believe that’s what’s missing in the instructions.

You should then be able to select the Utilities option to get to the terminal.

Also,

I ran into a problem installing the patch. I looked at the script and noticed that it was looking for the path /Volumes/Leopard/etc…

I created a partition called MAC not knowing that the script was going to look at the partition Leopard. So, I had to re-do that.

I also changed the Volume Label using a Windows machine and unfortunately it will convert all of the lower case characters to upper case. I got around this by editing the script to all upper case for the path of /Volumes/Patcher/files, which is stated near the front of the script file.

Hope that’ll help someone.

I’d have to disagree with some of the haters, I do like my Windows XP, don’t get me wrong, however I feel that Unix is more stable than the Windows platform currently which is why i’m installing Mac OSX (Unix with a Mac based GUI)

okay i would like to say something to people who think that Apple is better than Microsoft.

Again comparing apples to oranges (no pun intended).

MOST IMPORTANTLY!

MAC OS X is PIRATED UNIX

WINDOWS is PIRATED OS/2

Unix and Ibm are the real creators except for linux distros (NOT MAC)

so everyone is wrong, no one makes their own stuff, ever.

Hi

Want to know if it would work with SSE2…..and only supports MMX,SSE and SSE2

Thankyou

As far as a Mac or PC I prefer to use whatever does the best job for the least amount of money as posible. PC’s have their merit as do Macs. Take it from someone who has owned a computer since 1984. Ive owned a Commodore Vic 20, 64, and Amiga. I also owned an Apple Lisa and a 486 PC. I currently own several computers, an iMac, a Pentium and Athlon PC, a Sun Ultra 10, and Sun Ultra 2, and about 5 other PC’s. It all depends on what you want to do with your computer. The most stable boxes I’ve owned HAVE NOT BEEN APPLE. I’ve owned 3 Apples and know that Apples lock up as much or more than my PC’s! I happen to have a Windows 2000 pro box that hasn’t been rebooted for years NO JOKE!! Maybee I got lucky with my choice of hardware? But the most stable box I’ve owned is My Sun, then my Windows XP box (only after service pack 2), then my iMac (OSX 10.4).

As far as software goes nothing in my opinion beats Windows. This is only because you have many more titles available to you than you do with other OS’S. And just about any program made for a MAC has it’s Windows counterpart. Why would Apple come out with a dual boot XP and OSX box if this statement wasn’t true. The only drawback to Apple OSX is that you don’t have as many choices of software titles available for it.

As far as hardware goes nothing beats SUN (if you can afford it). I have a 10 year old SUN PC that is 64bit (and one that is dual 64bit) and has over a gig of ram. PC’s and MACs are only just now offering that.

As far as the comment some guy made about not being able to record Audio with a PC without it crashing doesn’t know how to set up his PC!! For your information at my last studio session, Brad, my Bass player used Cubase and MAC OS that damned thing crashed a million times and we ended up loosing hours of work.

For PC’s I’ve found Reaper and N-Track Studio are great for multitracking and have all the power you need to make a great sounding CD. They both support a slew of great plugins. One thing you need to know is USE SCSI drives (or someone told me serial ata works ok too) to multi-track with!

Long story short if you like a MAC then use it. But don’t try to make false claims about Macs only to try to justify paying more money for what is now basically a PC anyway.

Hey!
I was going to buy a macbook today, but in the shop I thought it was too expendsive, I can get better hardware if I get an PC.

So I have decided to buy an PC and try to install leopard on in.

Now is the question; witch PC laptop should I buy? I would like every thing to work, at least sound, wireless, grafics e.t.c.

anyone wo knows? and please dont give me a resond like, -If u want everything to work, by a REAL mac e.t.c.

If you are an expers in the area or just happend to know what I need, plz sen me an e-mail.

regards Jensabrun@gmail.com

@Alan
I’m gonna take you out to the shed and beat the hell out of you for being so moronic.
What do you think your doing browsing forums and posting comments on the internet…..wasting time.
Tinkering isn’t a chore Alan, its something people enjoy doing, because maybe they have inquisitive minds and want to learn about stuff, unlike you! n00b

I have a Intel AC’97 Sound Card, but not working….
I need help!!!

Linux drivers work???

Venezuelan_pimp could you help me to install leopard on my sz230p/b.
mi correo es: trawde@gmail.com
Thanks {Gracias}.

Andrey

I’ve got a problem when I load in verbose mode It won’t load in Graphics Interface, its liike I was in the terminal. so I try to patch it anyway by typing:(I’ll put the errors hust the way they were displayed 2 me)
cd .. (No errors displayed)
cd .. (same as above)
cd Volumes (same as above)
cd Patcher
No such file or directory.

I cant figer out why!
is formated as Fat32 with the right name. (formmated in my sis Windows)

Im writing from my hackintosh Tiger.
—————————————————————
Before I have error like you ,Now I can fix it.Leopard detect thumb drive
label with All Upper of name
is PATCHER
hope this help you

Now I update to Leopard 10.5.2 from apple site ,It cannot boot ? wHY?

Hey, you dont say , it is from what Forum?
if you know please type in you fucking google
OSX86 HACKINTOSH
THX FAGG

The comments are just too funny……seriously grow up and stop acting like a bunch of idiots who keep going on about how macs are better / windows is better.

Both mac/windows are good for certain things, and both have their advantages/disadvantages.

So stop acting like a bunch of tards and going on about how people who use windows are idiots.

The installation starts, then it says select a destination to install leopard. And the dialog box beneath it is empty, how the hell can i select a destination? And the installation stops there itself, I cant do anything but keep watching the screen. I dont think there is any problem with the partitions or my HD, as xp is running perfectly. Please help me out, tell me what may be going wrong.

First off, thanks for the additional instructions to finding the post patch on the jump drive!

I get an error when doing the PostPatch. At
[code]echo Adding patched kernel extensions...
cd $PATCH/ext
cp -R * $LEO/System/Library/Extensions
chmod -R 755 $LEO/System/Library/Extensions/* && chown -R root:wheel $LEO/System/Library/Extensions/*
echo Success !![/code]

I get errors for all the files that say
[filename]: could not copy extended attributes to [theOtherFileName]: Operation not permitted.

i am currently usin windows vista ultimate.
mine system configuration is

Processor Intel® Pentium® D CPU 2.80GHz, 2800 Mhz, 2 Core(s), 2 Logical Processor(s)

System Type X86-based PC

Total Physical Memory 2 GB

ATI Radeon Express 200 series graphics

HDD 80 gb

CAN I INSTALL LEOPARD IN MY SYSTEM?

if some hardware upgrades are required for running Leopard on my system plz plz let me know…

himanish26@gmail.com

can mac os x work in tablet pc laptop like hp tx1000… im try to install ubuntu but cant work properly… any user can help me… pls tech step by step how to install…. tq

dears all,

i couldn’t read all comments for now. but doing analyzis of markting strategies and at the same time conect them to the wishes of should or could be possible wents to be a hard work to deal with. for now i would like to say there should be no relgious wars between the systems, those we allready haw in the real world, which doesen’t even make the world easier and at the end of the road a computer is a tool to make life easier, isn’t it.

but for now enough of that stuff.

i’m using a macmini and made bootcamp and was for a littel while frustrated about the nonsupport of the different file-systems. i found some solutions (macfuse with ntfs-3g and for the other way round macdrive [hfs-explorer from the swedish man doesn't realy solve the problem]).

so this is a dualmachine now.

okay but now i have a msi-laptop vr 601 023 ne. i bought i to solve problems about some very specific software to use to handle pictures. but i had problems to build a networkconectic and still have becaus this systemdaminstration is not realy my deal. therefore windows vista isn’t easy to deal with. a bit more userfriendly enviorment would do wonders for ms.

so, now i want to install some of my old mac os x onto this machine because now i have two leagaly versions 10.4 and 10.5. I want to use the older one on the windowslaptop. but for now i run into the filesystem problem again.

so if there is anyone out there to direct me through the installation. maybe i could create my own patched disk from original mac volumes.

my 10.4 disk isn’t even recognized by the disk drive on the windowsmachine and the 10.5 finds only the bootcamp installation drivers.

can anybody tell me how to create an installtion-disk with toast.

thanks to all anarchist and individualist.

fuck for corporated identity and design.

being a charachter needs more than this. it needs personality!

dear bill bob,

i’m not sure about this software you named.

one thing is the different filesystems ms and apple uses: ntfs and hfs+.

second thing is that there in my laptop only is one hd. so it has to be configurated as one of ntfs and one of hfs+.

so if that could work it out. which isn’t describe on the site of acronis, if it is an native machinebuilder or an emulator.

if it isn’t an emulator. i’ll try it. but this one is commercial and cost in front of the price of an apple os almost half the ammount it.

but still on their site apple os isn’t describe as supported.

do you know more.

i have a problem may some one help pls i had downloaded the leo dvd i& burned it yet & i had the pen drive with the zip file
i tryed to setup leo it took along time & i get a message of an error cause of :the setup programe do not find “epson printer drivers”
there is no epson printer connected to the pc .

i tryed again & again

still the same message

any one had this problem ??

@moh.sakhaii

Firstly, that image key says it all – it shows problems that have been disclosed and then fixed, and problems that have been disclosed and not fixed, it entirely misses the ones that Microsoft have chosen to deny the existence of!

Secondly, i have had FAR more problems on my PC than my Mac, i use both, and i have never had leopard crash since it came out, and when i installed vista (on a PC with FAR above minimum specs) daily crashes were routine. In the end it annoyed me so much that i reinstalled XP.

Thirdly, if you are a PC fanboy you will save yourself a LOT of time and effort by not commenting on and reading mac sites. If you truly want to see why OSX is so awesome then try it yourself!

P.S. also that graph shows the stats for 10.4 (Tiger) which has been out since April 2005 (almost 3 years as opposed to vista’s 1 and a half, which is far more time to find and fix problems.) 10.5 (Leopard) is by far Apples most stable operating system yet.

hey!
first where is the files for USB Flash “Patcher” and how big USB has to be SPACE?

Would this work on:

2.8 Ghz Pentium(R) 4
512 Ram
120 GB
32 bits

I successfully installed Leopard 10.5.2 on my AMD Machine (Osx86), and it works flawlessly. Thanks to zephyroth and eddie11c for Leo4all.

http://mac.kbot.de
http://osx.kbot.de

^
Amazing Resources for Osx86 (especially for AMD!)

Wow, not to many people actual do there homework do they? MAC is not as well off as some may think. Didn’t Bill just give Apple a couple billion dollars so they would not go under? Also, the reason MAC is not doing so good is because of the fact that they did not release the rights for other companies to make hardware for MAC’s. That alone almost killed MAC’s. Think back people or is it before most of you people were born? MAC’s are great machines but like anyuthing. There are pro’s and con’s. Back in the day, MAC’s were better computers depending what industry you were in(graphic artists loved MAC’s) but now the PC has surpassed the performence of MAC’s. It won’t be long before Bill Gates has to give Apple more money to keep them afloat unless Apple smartens up. Like releasing their OS to run on PC’s and not just MAC’s. Maybe?

I’m considering purchasing a Dell XPS laptop in the near future and I would really like to have Leopard on it. The only thing I would like to know is if when you install this onto your PC, is there any possible way to get back to Vista? Like, in case I need to switch for some reason or the install goes shitty or whatever?

ok everyone. lets stop with the insults back and forth about who’s got the bigger c*ck. this forum was initially created for those people who want to try something new. What the hell is wrong with trying out leopard before you buy it? Who care’s if its not on freaking MAC hardware. Keep this forum for people who are willing to try things. Don’t make this a Microsoft or Bill Gates issue. Don’t make this a piracy issue. If your shit gets pirated or leaked, its your freaking fault. Not everyone has enough money for a MAC. People… its not cheap! So.. getting back to the point. The person above us had a question. Unless you have the answer to that question or anyone elses, save your comments for another forum. Makes it harder to dig for information you are seeking

Hi this is a reply for the ignorant who said that MAC has a “unique OS” or that “they are good” but never explain why.
So let me tell you this, first of all MAC OS is just a Unix with a very nice graphic interface, why don’t you ask your Mac boys to open the source code of theirs interface? Why don’t you wonder yourself why isn’t the interface GNU as Gnome, KDE and the other ones.
And about the “just being good” thing let me tell you this. THE HARDWARE IS THE SAME, Samsung screen, Asus Mother Board or how they call it “logic board” and the rest of the components, you name it, the only difference is that they have a crappy chip in the board telling is a mac, so Leopard and the rest of the crap could work.
I like Macs, don’t get it twisted, I’m just not blinded by Steve Job’s magic tricks, something like …. wooooops there you go, a DVD burner for only 9999 U$D
bye

Ok ‘YOU KNOW ME’, Let’s settle this here and now ok! Yes, Steve jobs does damn right Pi*s of anyone who buys a mac with their BIG BIG price tags, they are pathtically expenesive and they do cost a bomb, but when you compare the hardware of a Compaq Presario V5000 (as a prime example seeing that that is my make and modle) The ardware is alot different, the Compaq has basic things,but the Macbook PRO has more than basic, it has lots of ram and lots of memory, a big HDD and what not as the list goes on and on and on. But when you look at the windows, what does it have, annow that your going to say that, ‘Thats just the machine specs and not the OS’ But when it comes down to running it, it is the hardware that comes into play.

It is a unique OS as look at how many virus checkers you go through on windows, HUNDREDS. But then look at how many you need mac, Yeh, NONE, It has its own prebuilt into Leopard, and Tiger and whatever.

UNQUE KIDDO, VERY

hi, VENEZUELAN_PIMP
i have installed Leopard walyway on my
sony vaio – vgn-fe11m intel centrino core duo T2300 – 2gb di ram – 100 gb HD – wlan 802.11a/b/g – super multi double layer DVD + /- / ram – webcam fotocamera integrata – bluetooth – monitor 15,4″ LCD X-black – licenza XP Professional media center edition

but i have any problem with:
eternet, wi-fi, flash memory: don’t word
monitor: the max resolution is 256 color
can you help me? tanks

Do this work eith amd athlon?

LEARN A LITTLE PEOPLE. so many variations of leopard and tiger osx today.
here is something for you that has the whole osx x86 world right at your fingertips. after they are the creator’s keeper on all programmers that made the extra solar planterium use of osx x86.
http://osxproject.org you choose your pill at top. isanelymac is a forum for all and everything osx x86 and osx86project is the wiki to all things hardware and how to’s. be off with you to find your way there and learn about a whole new world of fun and exciting times.

This is a handy dandy work thorugh that you guys have put up online. I was just think where is the 2 giant computer company headed. Its seems like they are going to merge down the future.

Really, don’t waste your time!! I am a Windows Admin (and I depsise Vista for the record), and I use PCLinuxOS and DreamLinux, OpenSuse. these operate better in many cases than both M$ & Leapard. The best thing is they are FREE. If the pc world really want to make changes support all the free OS and software producers. Keep it FREEEEE, even with almost all known virus’, malware, spyware.

What about all the driver compatibilities???

can any body tell me
how to hack other pc using internet?
If any body know please give a detailed explanation to my e-Mail ID vinothkannahmpvk666@gmail.com

so where is the fucking link to this patch?

Hello,

at installing MAC OSX 10.4 Tiger I get always this screen:

http://www.abload.de/img/bgry1p.jpg

Installation always stops at this point. What is the matter?

Hello! This is great! I know many friends that they mostly work with Macs but they wouldn’t like to invest on an expensive Mac for home. They would welcome the opportunity to run Mac OS in their typical PC. And speaking of a “typical PC”, is there any hack or patch for all of us that don’t have a new PC? Not everybody has Core 2 Duo in their PC, most of us have a humble Pentium 4 3.0GHz HT that of course doesn’t support SSE3 instructions. Any workaround? I tried to cheat and install it, but it responds with an “incompatible CPU” message and system halted

Thank you anyway, keep up the good work!

Listen “Patrick” I only post here when people write nonsense things to to call the stupid ass comments about something they have no clue about.
1) MAC doesn’t run on PC’s not because Gates doesn’t want to, is because of a chip that MAC hardware has that identifies if is the proper hardware.
2) Steve Jobs big buck is in selling the hardware at a premium price, that’s why you have to pay big money for a shitty ass MAC mini, haven’t you wondered why re they so expensive?
3) the BIOS system is different, I don’t remember very well how they call it, the thing is that PC use BIOS they have RFI, thats why some people created the EFI emulator that emulates MACs starting process on PC hardware and with it you can get away with installing it.
All that made by APPLE of course, the NOT LETTING the system run on PC

Because you could get a better computer per dollar ratio if u get a PC and then put theirs shinny unix on it, moron.
Dont you know that MAC is just a UNIX distribution with a proprietary visual interface?

read some, do some homework, talk to your folks and then think twice before posting something stupid.

for all the Mac Lovers or people who may want to try it please look in torrents for the “KALYWAY” DVD is the one I use and works great with a couple tweaks.

Thanks

Wow thanks for the guide. Never knew you could actually install Leopard on a PC.

What’s the point installing mac on PC when Linux is far better and is opensource too

Im so Agree with Dimitri, its so uncomfortable to have to turn on your computer and to know each time that your going to feed your own farm…(virus). Im from Panama and here Bill gates has us on fetal position( you know….) all the computer here are Pcs and you can easly find a virus for every memory stick in an university. Dimitri said something very real, if you dont want to have problem about spies, wirus, pishing ads… anyway, obviously your going to find the best way to no have that in your computer. You will be able to think in mac or linux, like a next plataform, and to not return to windows. I would like to not be worried about virus anymore. And windows is not giving me that. And Im sarting to think how I can get mac for my Pc.

hi ppl

i tried to install leopard on my laptop. i’ve 2 partitions on it. one with Vista and the other is free to install Leopard. (both are NTFS)
after i boot with the dvd, the instalation starts, i choose the language to install, and in that part to choose where to install, it shows the 2 partitions but with an exclamation (!) saying that i can’t install leopard in my PC. does anyone knows why?

sorry about my english.

Thanks

MAC STUFF WORKS.
PCs ARE JUNK.

END OF STORY!!!

Hummm, curious to know if Apple actually gains more sales by having their OS run on PC’s. Someone gets curious, installs a patched version, likes it, then buys an Apple.
The only reason I semi switch and now advocate (semi because I still use windows for engineering programs) the use of Macs was because I got an incredible deal on a G4 Imac. I bought the unit brand new for $450.00, kept it for two years and had absolutely no problem with it. I again had the opportunity to buy a Macbook with an intel duo upper edition for $1050.00, sold my Ibook for $750 (still amazed how it held it’s value), and was able to get the Mac that could run XP for my special programs. I haven’t look back since. My switch was all possible due to an inexpensive introduction. The Mac proved itself to me and perhaps others running it on a PC will see that too.

very interesting
do I need a formated harddisk?
How I have to format the hd?
what display driver I need for OS?

A mac hasn’t been a Mac since they replaced the OS with Unix.
A REAL MAC has no command line!!

“Most home users who actually install their own OS pirate it these days.

The majority of legitimate Windows installs out there were done by an OEM”

I take offense to this. All my machines are legit.

“MAC STUFF WORKS.
PCs ARE JUNK.

END OF STORY!!!”

Define junk.. My machines only mess up if I buy cheap hardware. I don’t buy cheap hardware..so….no problems.

The Power Macs have impressive hardware. Leopard looks really good too..I watched the video on Apple’s website. Good job Apple.

ive used all three for manys a yr this is how i see it btw this is undeniable

MAC > good software, stable, ***Shite*** at games.

Windows> insecure (just get a decent firewall if you dont have one ur an idiot, ive never had XP hacked in the last 8 yrs nor vista), games Ah yes games beautiful games strongest point, plus the shear amount of appications availible.
if it looks bad use a theme ffs. Vista more stable but has loads of fucking annoying shit that u have to remove.
customization simply put better than MAC as far as hardware is concerned u build it all your self brilliant! mac for simpletons

Linux> probably the most securest but lets be honest all its applications are Punny in Camparision to the same apps in wheater field for the PC and mac + gamming is a joke on linux.

linux is however decent as a server

“NO PROBLEMS WITH MY VISTA
“MAC STUFF WORKS.
PCs ARE JUNK.

END OF STORY!!!”

Define junk.. My machines only mess up if I buy cheap hardware. I don’t buy cheap hardware..so….no problems.

The Power Macs have impressive hardware. Leopard looks really good too..I watched the video on Apple’s website. Good job Apple.”

RE:
Junk may refer to:
Things
Scrap, metallic waste, or waste in general (American Usage)
Off-speed pitches in baseball jargon
Junk DNA, DNA without a known function for the organism
Junk (ship), sailing vessel of Chinese origin
Hard drugs, especially heroin
Junk mail, unwanted postal mail, typically from direct marketing operations
Junk mail, unwanted electronic mail, also called spam
Junk food, derogatory collective term for fast food and packaged snacks
Junk bond (finance), a bond rated ‘BB’ or lower because of its high default risk. Also known as a “high-yield bond”, or “speculative bond”
A slang term for the male genitalia
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Stuff
Titles or names
Junk, by Christopher Largen
Junk (Transformers), fictional planet in the Transformers universe
Junk (novel), by Melvin Burgess
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“Junk”, a song written by Paul McCartney
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A nickname of the character Suigintou of the Japanese manga and anime Rozen Maiden, analogous to Desu for Suiseiseki.
Islands
Junk Island or Pulau Jong off the coast of Singapore
Junk, a tiny island near Hoy, Shetland in Scotland
or
Microsoft Windows is a series of software operating systems produced by Microsoft. Microsoft first introduced an operating environment named Windows in November 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces (GUIs).[1] Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world’s personal computer market, overtaking Mac OS, which had been introduced previously. At the 2004 IDC Directions conference, it was stated that Windows sadly had approximately 90% of the client operating system market. The most recent client version of Windows is Windows Vista and has Microsoft already trying to develop a new operating system because it is such a horrible failure.

nice, too bad I need OSX to develop iPHone apps

Hmmm…

Not bad, I think I’ll try this out once I’ve saved up for a laptop (Currently using a shared computer). I’m guessing I’d want an intel processor on it, right?

Let’s see…. install XP, create a blank partition, install OS X on said partition. Then follow up by installing Opensuse. Seems do-able.

Also, I don’t see what all the hype is about. All these guys did was played with the OS a bit and shared it with the rest of the world. They just did what all the developers for Linux do every day. I congratulate them, and hope they continue onto the next new Mac OS…

Fancy hack. Although I think Apple kinda assumed this would happen as they made the kernel run on Intel x86. If the hacks and drivers become so good that they can replace Windows on many enough PCs, more people will buy a Mac for their next PC, which is good for Apple obviously.

Although, for me, the only reason to use a mac is for advanced working with multimedia. It falls short to the gaming (Windows) and general computer use (Linux), (I prefer linux). It’s overpriced.

You can get this much Mac for 16000NOK (about 3000$)

3GHz C2D
8800GS 512MB
2GB ram
500GB HDD.

If you buy these parts yourself and build yourself/get some to build it for you, this can be had for under 8000NOK (1500$). So either, you’re paying shitloads for the OS, or shitloads for the design/brand, which is stupid.

where do i get the patched image

After installation, Does anyone has any problem in use max os on pc?

Peter,
max os … Did you mean Mac OS?
No Problem I found. Sum bugs available, these are also I got in Apple Macintosh computers. I am trying to upgrade to 10.5.4 and think, than everything will be nice.

hi

your leopard on pc installation method is perfect, but let me now

the original mac OSX Leopard DVD is not necessary??

can you give me info for this by e mail?

thank you

Step 3. Patching Leopard

Now that you have got Leopard installed, you need to patch it. Before we do that Boot into the Leopard DVD like the way you did before.
Wait for the Darwin Bootloader to load. Once it loads up press F8. You should now see a prompt. Type -s and hit enter. The DVD will now load in Verbose mode. Watch for any errors. It should load without a problem because you have already installed Leopard.
Once the setup is loaded select your Language. Once done you should now be seeing the Welcome Screen. Once there navigate to Utilities-Terminal.
Once the terminal loads up, you now need to browse to your USB Drive, so follow the steps below, typing it exactly as it appears below in the Terminal.

In the command line type the following as they appear here

cd ..
cd ..
cd Volumes
cd Patcher
cd files

i cannot get past the -s it dose not to the terminal sreen and it say when go in a diferent way it will let type
cd ..
cd ..
cd volumes
then thats it it say directory not found when i type
cd patcher an cd files directory not found
an last ./9a581postpatch.sh
directory not found

Hi, i have an Intel Dual Core 1,6ghz PC… will this work for me? or just the three-step-mode will work? or neither of them will work? >.<

Thank you

my installation stops at this stage:

Kernel Stage:
Darwin Kernel version 9.1.0:sat nov17 02:56:34 sct 2007;
made by FOH:xnu-1228.0.2~1/build/obj/release_I386

please Karthik Kastury can you help me on this stage or any one having this problem who solved.

where i can get the patch??

where could I get the mac OS??

Well I have read most of these posts and it seems you all are debating about why and who is doing what or not doing.
Well from the way I see things is you all are blaming Apple for not doing its part for drivers and Software for there system..
You all for get the all important that Microsoft is a dominating force and when they cornered the market most software developers run to join the band wagon so they don’t get left out and loose out on revenue.
Its the old story of the big get bigger so they have a following.
Now Apple does not write all the drivers that hardware requires to run under there OS since other manufactures who are big enough and have the resources to have programmers to write drivers for the OS.
Now if you were to do the research and see exactly what was supported for hardware and buy each piece that was for Pc and would work with Mac then you would have a MAC in theroy.
Now we also have to understand that Mac is far more stable than windows by far but this is because of there strong back end which is why OSx the X standing for Unix makes it such a solid dependable base system. Now I am not a programmer nor an expert but I imagine that drivers that work under unix and linux like environments would work under OSX but there is alot to do to get to work I am not sure but I will be experimenting soon I hope
But now back to the real issues Windows is popular because of its software that it has lol thats cause the developers design it for the majority but as of late you see cross platform applications that run on both windows and mac and Linux/Unix systems also now you see more games being ported to mac now this is cause of a demand and the software developers of those games have the resources to meet this since they are big developers and make huge profit from the windows based users out there they can afford a few more programmers to port app and games to mac to maintain a status cwow with the big guns.. remember not so long ago we had OS2 from IBM well what happen its down to a small unknown select tight group of private developers now and banks like TD still use this os but there atms and stuff run on linux thats there backend.
Now if you want to see Mac on PC bug the hardware manufactures to make drivers and support Mac until we as a community Stand up and say NO more being told how to do things by certain beurocrats and other communist like people that make us do what they want by limiting our options.

If you had to choices to make money or stuggle what is your choice until we can convince and support others into staning up and saying we are not going to take it then Live with the choice you make.

Hi there !
I need some help…
When DarwinX86 finishes loading the installer, and the “Apple” appears on screen, my computer reboot on its own as if nothing happened.
What could i do ?
Thanks !

Kike

how much does Leopard cost?

i have hp compaq 6715b 64 turion amd ——and i cant instal leopard i think that it cant recognize my hard disk is there a way to solve this problem?——————————-
I dont want to install on external hard drive

WHERE THE HELL DO I GET LEOPARD HACKED!!! AND WHICH ONE@@!!$#@#$!

http://isohunt.com/torrent_details/39354389/Kalyway+10.5.2+DVD+Intel_?tab=summary

for intel

How’s it working with centrino based laptops? (drivers etc) I have a HP Compaq nx7300 witch CoreDuo 1,86Ghz Yonah Core (32bit)

I’m thinking about getting an imac if new ones come out in 2008. I also came across the new Dell XPS One 24 and it looks amazing. Much better than an imac and cheaper as well. Do you think it’s worth it to install OSX on this dell? What kind of problems could there be? Thanks.

Can we Install Mac OS X Leopard on a pen drive?
What are the system Requirements for Mac on PC?

v@caz because mac test hardver 100% and windows dont so dont be ignoramus and read before you judge…….. only one who is stupid is you because mac “make shitloads of casdh” on a good hardver and design

I am reading and reading and know what:? I am nor PC fanatic neither Mac one. I’ve been getting into Macs for some long time and really wanted to buy one but then I started thinking… What I get is MacOS, true. It is nice. Nonetheless the hardware offered is not sth special. I like the design, it is slim but what bothered me was passive cooling system. New Macbooks Pro are better in this case but they do not offer decent mate screen. Eventually I decided to get Dell Precision M4400. Why? 4 USB ports, e-sata, pro video card, fast hard-drive. Ok it is not as slim as Mac and it does not have MacOS but I paid less money for a MOBILE WORKSTATION with LED mate screen and very powerful config. Unfortunately money counts. Moreover I came to conclusion that many things I need I can do with this bad Windows which if You don’t mess up with (all suspicious websites) and install stuff clever way it may work pretty fine. Thus if You cool down try to think over what You really need and a fanatism is not a good advisor. Yes, I like the quality. That is why I went for this Dell I mentioned and saved 1000$.

I will release this simple Mac Os X86 called JIOPO next week. We are hacking the leopard OSX for years (when osx just started). We are not the crappy versions which released theirs just the day after the release. We spend over 100000 hours and finally we got this easy to use version. Unlike others, this one does not need codes or other damn shit. You only insert the DVD and then it will install by itself. Just like installing WIndows XP but more simple. We did not modify anything on the Mac Os Leopard DVD released by Apples.

please email me for more information

Thx, highly experienced hackers (JIOPO), CHINA SHANGHAI

Dear Experts,
i appreciate what you are doing here by supporting the non-expertise users, and i have a seriouse problem with my laptop.
i have a MacOSX leopard 10.5.2 for intel, i install it on my acer laptop that meets the requierments, after the installation the computer restarts and start the mac boot then i found the apple logo then the welcome animation, then it ask me about the region and the keyboard language, finally it ask me if i want to migrate my setting from another mac or a backup or none, when i select none and continue, it takes time and then starts the welcome animation and starts the same configurations again
Please HELP!!!!!!

Am seriously considering getting a pc to install Leopard because it’s much cheaper and if its true that it runs natively then I can live with that till i have enough dough to probably get me the aluminum macbooks. Im one of the converts from pc to mac and honestly these people dont have a clue what os x is really like. They wouldnt be posting these sad ignorant comments if they did. PC’s nowadays are getting better by the day but the OS makes all the difference. Mac are more on the posh side of things but they REALLY WORK!

You should look at everything for it’s face value. It can all be hacked. If you think different then, well I wont go there. You need to decide what flavor you like. It comes down to personal preference. The OS are now running with same processors for the most part. Makes no dif. to me I like both. Have fun and mix your flavors the way you like them. It is to simple to think that PC are hacking the bios. What’s up with that when the processors are the same. I guess I have a classic that is still running a RISC process or is it dinosaur. Good thing I gave it away for free or should I have kept it as classic. To bad that users have to hack the bios to run MAC OS. Especially since they run the same processors . Not like in the past. Oh well. Just my two cents. Still it might of been nice to keep around.

Hello Guys,
my pc is :
AMD dual core 64 2X 5200+
2 GB of RAM

and i will be more happier if i nkow how to install the mac leopard 10.2.5 on my pc

if anybody got an idea

Can somebody help me? I’m trying to install my microwave oven’s OS onto my blender. The USB stick keeps melting when I start the file transfer. What am I doing wrong?

Hey guys…I managed using the (-V) command to boot into the dvd..But when i get to disk utility it doesent show my disk and my partitions..I have created two partitons one “RAW” and one “FAT32″ should io try to create a “HFS+”?? and why doesent it show my disk ..I read about somthing like acpi? here is my PC.

http://support.packardbell.com/it/item/index.php?pn=PB81104506&g=1400

It is a ixtreme j9403

THX

YAY i revived the thread! i dont understand how we’re booting from the patched cd. i have this windows vista laptop and a mac with leopard on it sitting right next to the laptop. i’ve burned this patched dvd and formatted the mem. stick in fat and have “files” on it. when i put the cd in the laptop and plug the mem. stick in, i press power and mash f12 it askes me what i want to boot from ad i select dvd rom drive it goes straight to the windows loading screen. i tried booting from the stick too – also failed. what am i doing wrong?

I followed all the steps, got a HFS+ partiton along side XP’s

[[Xp 110gb][leopard 106 gd][HP_recovery 12gb]

i installed with no problem; i applied patch with no problem; but after reboot it only boots into XP doesnt even give me a choice to boot into darwin or OSX

YODAMAN.
I read your comment. The reality is that Apple do not wish to compete with Microsoft. Steve Jobs has said that time and time again. The reason I believe (judging from what I have read and seen) that Apple don’t put OS X on any PC (remember they did clone for a while, google PowerComputing) is they don’t wish to run down the same road as Windows with the countless compatibility issues. Apple build a machine and make it work with OS X using a few different brands and types of products to keep it simple. OS X and Linux are work for the hardware not the other way around. OS X works seamlessly whereas Linux as good as it is has some compatibility issues.

As for Windows.

Well….

now i installed and it said install succeeded but when it restarts it get stuck at black screen with blinking dash please help me

I put Leopard on my Lenovo S10 Notebook. I have a legit copy of Leopard on hand though. So it’ not an issue of illegality at this point. They just simply DO NOT make a mac with a 10.2″ screen for 400 dollars. Buying a computer simply for the OS is stupid. Buying a MAC is stupid. Buying an OS is fine though.

I do not see you MAC guys crying over bootcamp….

I was gonna install it until I read some comments. Ah well, not like it does anything I can’t do already.

Useless thing

Please dont wast your valuble time to do this lie

It wasted my time

Useless

This is a huge lie

excuse me but when i go to disk utility, i can’t find the partition that i made!!!Help me what can i do??????PLEASE is since last august that i try to dual boot vista and leopard. i use iaktos 5.0i

To be honest, Macs truley fail. Everyone thinks they are the best, that they’re virus free. That is total BS, if memory serves my correct, the very first computer virus was written for a Macintosh, 25years ago, on the 26th of January. coming up to it’s 26th birthday, so why would Apple miss-lead people to believe that their software/hardware is fully protected.

Apple have done what most politicians have done, talked and BSed their way into “the hot seat.” Mac users tend to be retards that got infect on Windows because they failed to notice their Virus Protector, flashing the fuck in the bottom right corner going “DON’T OPEN THAT YOU FUCKTARD! IT’S A VIRUS!” So they blame Windows for their own stupidty.

Safari has so many problems it is not funny. The amount of back-doors you can use to get through it is just incredible. You will also notice that the FireFox version for Macs runs slower then Safari, this is because Apple want you to use their own products.

BTW, Macs get viruses via video codecs and once inside your laptop/desktop, they act the same like any old virus. Hijack your browser, phish you, destroy files, you know the lot. So therefore they are not secure. The reason why they didn’t have viruses for a long time is because on a small amount of users used Macs and hackers/crackers/programmers thought “Why bother only getting 10% of computer uses when we can still get 70% of PC users and why bother having to re-write a new virus for a new computer?” It was just not worth it until people started to.

Another hint guys: OSx is devolped of Unix and practically steals the GUI of a lot of Linux distros.

P.S: I own a Macbook, I got it for the light weight, but I wiped all the software off it and put Windows XP on it and Linux redhat and Bluecat. I barely use it and am going to sell it.

PCs are the way to go. Apple can’t get their own users so they’ve got to make fun of PC users when PCs are actually 1000x better then Macs.

Hmm, Apple on a PC. Wasn’t Steve Jobs the one that had the original idea for a “windows” system? I’m not going to say that they will never release a PC version, they may. In theory, if Mac OS X is written on top of a Linux kernal, all device drivers should work with no extra installation needed. That has been my experience with Linux distros in the past. So would they really need to support all the hardware out there? No. The hardware manufacturers that build pc-compliant hardware would have to start building either hybrid or Mac compliant hardware. This is doable, but will be a rather expensive task. This OS X hack seems nice, real nice. And in my opinion, the stability of the operating system doesn’t come from the hardware, it comes from the platform they decided to build on. So with that being said, hack away if you can, or get PearPC, a PowerPC emulator if you really want to run OS X on your PC. That’s the approach I’m going to take….

For those of you who have been successful with this please tell me how it’s working for you, better performance? worse performance?

if we install it, can we get back to windows easily or is there an easy way to uninstall it???

Hi Mate, It was just awesome. Never imagined it could be so easy…. THANQ.

Does the leopard on a pc support the iphone sdk?

huh………….. mac is all about the software, its all about the Operating System, since the birth of the OS only two viruses that i know was out there, and graphics is awesome, the application the visual look everything is superb, and for them to make a gr8 profit out of such a superb Os it to get a unique system which can only run the Mac OS, think about what had happen to XP, Vista, Why buy a genuine software when its available for download, and see even when mac OS works in mac, its too available for download so if they make a version on Leopard for PC, who will buy the mac, actually PC Hardware is unbeatable compared to Mac, PC can be upgraded for you need. so no ones gonna buy a Mac trust me i worked in Apple inc for 5 and we have also created a PC version years and its files as working and highly confidential. and iv stolen the software when i gave up and i’m trying to forge the Mac OS for PC, keep in touch call +960 762 2201

whut up, loserz!

2 reasons no Mac 4 PeeCs:

1. U 2 stoopid to earn nuff $$ to buy Mac.. Must B, always bitchy-bitchy about how HI the price. Probly work cutting fish, play games all nite. big dumass.

2. Apple no want yer biz-nez, make them look bad, no like OSX used by dumass stoopid loserz. U stay PeeC, call evrybody Mac user bad names, live @ mommy house basement, play games, stink like fish.

I believe the reason that apple doesn’t want to release their operating system for PCs is because everyone would just steal it and no one would by their computers anymore. So if no one buys their operating system and no one buys their computers, they wouldn’t make any money at all. If anything, PC companies would make more money because everyone would by their computers and install stolen copies of apple’s os on them.

i have an Asus p5v-vm with intel core 2duo
a nvidia graphic card 9500 with 512 mb
wich version of macos i need to word.

i already tryed :
idenb 10.5.5>> not work
kalyway 10.5.4
iatkos 51 and iakos 1 and really nothing is good

help me please…

So will it boot exactly the same as a mac would? with out any bs like booting from disk? just power on and right to lepord?

Steve Jobs once quoted someone. He said, “if you want to be serious about software, you have to be serious about hardware.”

Apple designed OS X to work with Mac hardware and that is just the way it is. Even if you go through a back door and get Leopard to work, it wont be as stable as it would be on a Mac.

hey guys =========>

i am gonna try this one from apple it is good chance to know more about apple practically,

my suggestion, to everybody here, try LINUX BACKTRACK
it is so cool

i think apple is all about artistic hardware, but stuCK when workin

forget fruits and M$,,, LINUX IS THE only one you need

Disculpen mi ignorancia, pero no encuentro los links con los archivos para lograr efectuar esta maravilla. Tengo una hija que entró a estudiar Cine y TODOS los días me pide que le compre un MAC. La verdad es que no me alcanza para ello, pero si tengo varios PC que podría cambiar a MAC.
de Antemano muchas gracias por su atención.

you all suck windows is shit LINUX ROCKS BITCHES

Well personally im not amazed this can be done since Macs are nothing more than PC’s running a different OS (in a fancy dress). That being said I decided to try this for the mere spectacle i gotta say it runs perfectly fine on my Centrino2 Duo 2.6 ghz with 4 gb of ram and a Intel hd accelerated graphics card. The only thing i can’t get to work is my blue tooth drivers.. I also managed to install this using a dual boot.. it’s really not that hard just create a separate clean partition from windows. Currently running Vista, XP, Linux and now Mac OSX Leopard. Pretty cool if you ask me.. i have two 500 gb ata drives.. Four OS half the price of of an Equivalent Mac computer.. Gotta love the hackers..

I can use this copy for reinstal osx in my apple. i don´t have the installation dvd

hahaha no i can start my iphone SDK on PC very cool tnx guys 4000 $ saved

Hi, thanks for the exelent guide.

when i run the install i get stopped at a line that says:

IOAPIC: VERSION 0×28 VECTORS 64:87

i appreciate your help

This is amazing that it is so easy, however breaking the EULA for Apple. Don’t use this on a production system or an update can break it.

Hi!i have downloaded the image file of it is there any easy steps to install