OS X on your PC?

[Greg_Cornish]

Psystar just announced that they are selling their bootloader for 50 bucks. It will let you load OS X on nearly any PC


http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/psys ... ges-apple/

[Greg_Cornish]

But then...


Like a too-trusting doggy who keeps running, tail wagging, back to its abusive owner, only to get booted in the muzzle once again, hackintosh-monger Psystar has rolled over and asked Apple for another whack.

This time the lawyer bait is the Rebel EFI, a boot loader which allows the installation of OS X Snow Leopard onto pretty much any commodity Intel PC. The Darwin Universal Boot Loader, or DUBL, allows the system to start up from a Snow Leopard install disc and to boot into the Mac OS when you’ve done installing.

All you need to do is download a small file (7.6 MB) and use it to make a bootable CD. You then start the computer from this disk and wait until it tells you to swap in your Snow Leopard DVD. That’s it.

Or, that’s kinda it. The list of caveats, warnings and workarounds that follows the short instructions shows just why Apple will never bother supporting its OS on third-party hardware: There are just too many unknowns in the various machines to consider them all. Take this example, which is the description of the Psystar Labs Approval program. To alleviate some the incompatibility issues some devices will experience, Psystar has begun their home certification program. Once authenticated, users will be given the opportunity to send in hardware components that are not working correctly and have our engineers build a profile for the device. Nice. You might have to send in, say, your wireless card and hope Psystar can get it back to you along with a working driver. Not bad enough? How about this? If when booting OS X your computer hangs at a screen with the Apple logo and a “no smokingâ€