Now, for Your PC: Mac OS X

[Booyamos]

Just read an interesting article:
http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125...tml?tw=rss.TOP

"A Hawaiian company specializing in streaming video claims to have developed a $50 software emulator that allows a Windows PC to run Apple Computer's Mac OS X.

Maui X-Stream on Tuesday announced CherryOS, a virtual PC that mimics the hardware of a G4 Mac. The company said it is already working on a stand-alone version that cuts out Windows XP. A stand-alone version of CherryOS would allow OS X to run on a cheap commodity PC without the added expense of Microsoft's operating system -- provided the emulator works and Apple's lawyers ever allow it to see the light of day.

Available as a 7-MB download, the CherryOS software emulates a G4 processor and includes the chip's multimedia-boosting Velocity Engine, formerly known as AltiVec. It also features support for USB, FireWire and ethernet. It automatically detects hardware and network connections, the company said."

http://www.cherryos.com/index.html

sounds interesting if it works. I would try it out. If they can eliminate the MSFT OS it would definately make things interesting. 20% loss is not too too bad, considering you could throw that thing on a pretty beastly machine.

[verve247]

Now that would be sweet. OS X on my dell. I wonder how long it will last before the Apple lawyers strike.

[bachviet]

Now that would be sweet. OS X on my dell. I wonder how long it will last before the Apple lawyers strike.

But as long as you have your copy before it's off the market, you will be okay.

[redcolours]

uhm...ok...isnt OS X a 64bit OS?

why would you want to run a 64bit OS on a 32bit platform? even if you put it on an Itanium system, or an AMD 64bit chipset, its still EMULATION (read:slow).

and actually this has already been done a couple years back. actually demo'd on TechTV. plenty of stuff to configure before you can do what essentially comes out as a slow emulation of the OS.

we'll see what happens. Apple will take them to the cleaners with this. and even if it does go thru, that 20% slower speed may not seem a lot, but in real world apps, its mighty slow.

[spigidygak]

uhm...ok...isnt OS X a 64bit OS?

why would you want to run a 64bit OS on a 32bit platform? even if you put it on an Itanium system, or an AMD 64bit chipset, its still EMULATION (read:slow).

and actually this has already been done a couple years back. actually demo'd on TechTV. plenty of stuff to configure before you can do what essentially comes out as a slow emulation of the OS.

we'll see what happens. Apple will take them to the cleaners with this. and even if it does go thru, that 20% slower speed may not seem a lot, but in real world apps, its mighty slow.

Actually not quite 64bit yet. The current version of OS X, 10.3 is 32bit code with a few optimizations for the G5 (64bit cpu). The next version 10.4 will be fully 64bit. But yeah. . . ~80% of cpu power for emulating. . . riiight. If this were true I would think that video would actually show the emulator in action instead of static screens. My guess these chumps are just repackaging PearOS and trying to make a quick buck.

[sho.gun]

I was going to mention pearPC but apparently I've been beaten by spidedydiggitygak

[xcgames]

wow all these simulated PC started with microsoft's virtual pc 2004. I'd check it out though, and if i like it, definitely get an IMac for it's eyecandyness

[sho.gun]

wow all these simulated PC started with microsoft's virtual pc 2004. I'd check it out though, and if i like it, definitely get an IMac for it's eyecandyness

Actually Virtual PC was first made by Connectix and MS bought them out. There's also Bosch (sp?) that's free.

I heard this CherryOS thing was using PearPC code...

[Cantacuzene]

OS X is slow on Macs, imagine how slow it will be on a pc.

[spigidygak]

OS X is slow on Macs, imagine how slow it will be on a pc.

weee paging mr. ribitch to the white flaming phone, mr ribitch to the white flaming phone.