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Don't want Windows 7? Psystar makes it easy to install Mac OS X on any computer
If all the excitement about Windows 7 isn't floating your boat, you might be interested to see that notorious Mac cloners Psystar have released an app that makes it easy to run any OS - including Apple's OS X - on any machine.Psystar's app, Rebel EFI, just needs to be burnt to a CD, and from there users can follow instructions to install the OS of their choice. No word yet on how this might play into Apple's lawsuit against Psystar for selling PC hardware with OS X preinstalled.
The full version is $49.99, but a working demo is available for free. The demo will apparently stick you with "limited hardware functionality," so it might be good to test it on a backup machine, and then buy the full version for your main PC.
Although Win7 was released today, Psystar says it's compatible with Rebel EFI. Not such a big deal for Mac users, who already have a few ways to run Windows operating systems on their Intel hardware.
[via Macrumors]
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Ethan said 8:14PM on 10-22-2009
Is there not freeware that does this?
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Jordan said 8:31PM on 10-22-2009
Apple will kill you if you do this
Seriously
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Jash Sayani said 5:26PM on 10-23-2009
Seriously! They will break into their houses and murder them while asleep.
How could they even do this?!!? Mac OS is only supposed to run on Apple Hardware and they make this after a on-going lawsuit with Apple.
Wow! Just Wow!
Drew Green said 9:05PM on 10-22-2009
Already got my Dell Hackbook Mini 9 running Snow Leopard, but I will probably grab this off the torrent sites tomorrow for another machine.
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psycros said 10:15PM on 10-22-2009
Apple will have a much tougher time heading this off. I can hear it now: "their enabling potential violation of our OSX license", which probably won't fly anywhere but East Texas.
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nofaterit301 said 10:55PM on 10-22-2009
That didn't work for me. I booted with the CD, dropped my snow leopard in and it just rebooted.
Ah well. :(
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kojo87 said 11:56PM on 10-22-2009
i've always been tempted to make my EeePC 1008HA a Hackintosh. then i put Windows 7 on it and i lost interest.
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Bonehead93 said 5:10AM on 10-23-2009
Could I run this in Virtual Box?
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Andre Ramon said 1:43PM on 10-23-2009
Try it and let us know
SugarDaddy said 1:12PM on 10-24-2009
I've had no luck with this for Leopard using a normal DVD, and 2 versions of a hacked DVD -- in VMWare. Gonna try on real hardware later.
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user said 7:49PM on 10-24-2009
Didn't work for me either. Tried it on an AMD X2 with cheapy ECS motherboard (GeForce 6100 chipset). The bootload loaded, popped in the OSX dvd-dl it got thru a little bit then reboots each time.
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user said 7:53PM on 10-24-2009
Tried it on another one of my systems. An AMD Phenom X4 9550 on a Foxconn A7GM-S ver. 1.0. It's got the AMD 780G chipset and the SB700 southbridge. It didn't work on this system either, it reboots at about the same spot.
iDeneb by itself seems to get further than this software does into the OSX boot. Not really understanding how they can market the software this way.
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dlsquad said 6:55AM on 10-25-2009
AMD CPU's are NOT supporten ! Intel only ...