Want to run 10.4.8 on your generic PC? Not a problem, thanks to hacker Semthex. You can now install OS X on any PC running on an x86 chip. And Semthex even claims that although the code bypasses the protection that Apple implements, it stays within the terms of Apple’s license, since he won’t include a key for the Trusted Platform Module (TPM). Wow, sounds great, right? Where’s the catch?
Well, it’s perfectly fine, as long as you’re not a huge fan of the OS X’s graphical bells and whistles. Or windows. Mouse cursors. That whole “Aqua” look. Pretty much anything graphical, really. You see, the code will only get you booted into OS X’s single-user command-line mode.
Now, I’ve been known to dive into the command-line every now and again, but I think that installing OS X’s command-line on my PC is kind of on par with drunkenly chatting up a mailbox—amusing to your more sober friends, but ultimately unsatisfying. Though I hear that command-line iPod syncing is hot and that white-on-black text is totally lickable.
[via The Register]
I don't get it. You can install Darwin on any x86 machine anyway. Yawn. ;)