Mac on Intel OSX86

It’s old news that Mac is dropping Moto/IBM in favour of Intel but for many Mac fans it is still a hard-to-believe scenario. But rumors regaring dual-booting Windows and OS X on the same Intel P4 system are true. So is running Windows programms in OS X, albeit with a little more help from an emulator than people are hoping for.

I am currently planning a new multimedia and gaming system to replace my old mini-ITX Epia M9000 and would love to run OS X. So, what should I do?

Buying a new or even slightly older G4 or dual G5 system would be really nice to have yet dreadfully expensive still. Until Apple at least presents the new Intel systems to the public (exepected by some around next year’s CeBit in Hannover), prices of current Moto/IBM systems will not fall.

The smart choice, IMHO, would be to buy a nice new dual core Intel system. With SATA2, DDR2, PCI-E and basically all the features of the latest of the G5 incarnation, in one word: power! A system with a 500GB RAID5, 2GB RAM, 256MB Video and super fast CPU would still be cheaper than one of Apple’s beauties (by roughly 1.000€ at my reckoning).

So what’s the downside? Well, it’s cheaper but it will be Windows of course. Or so it seemed when I set out to find what’s going on in Apple’s RnD.

To cut a really interesting project and long story short: check out http://osx86project.org or http://osx86.theplaceforitall.com/howto/ if you want to know how you can run OS X 10.4 (Tiger) on your Intel system [b]today[/b]!

I for one will be investing into the new dual core Intel platform and keep a disc handy for OSX86. I shall post my experiences here - so whatch this space.