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Friday, August 12, 2005

New Mac OSx Tiger Hack "OSx86" Will Run on PC's -- FASTER Than On A G4 or G5.

According to Wired News, a hacked generation of Mac OSx Tiger, called "OSx86" by many, has leaked into the wild of the internet. It is the first known version which can natively and easily be installed on any regular PC. Already, a number of torrent sites and hacker groups have begun offering the tweaked version, and the level of genuine curiosity for what was previously impossible is explosive.

Even more exciting than the software's availability is that the PC's seem to be running the new version of OSx much faster than any G4 or G5 machine. Machines for which the version of OSx have been found to work well are Dell laptops and a number of other PC's running both Intel microprocessors and AMD. The sweeping implications of this technology for PC users means one can build and run a machine using OSx for considerably less money than it would take to purchase a Macintosh computer.

The new OSx86 is able to run on a PC because it bypasses a chip that is found in Macintosh computers called the Trusted Platform Technology chip. This is what prevents previous versions of OSx from being able to run on PC's.

For more information on this important developing technology story, visit the story at Wired News or have a look at the OSx86 Project Official Homepage. Please note that my website and the pages linked in this post do not contain links to downloading the software.

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