OS X x86

August 15th, 2005

As you may or may not of heard several hacks for OS X x86 have surfaced over the weekend. If you have a CPU that supports SSE3 or SSE2 then you’re in luck. Those with SSE3 support can run all OS X apps, even those compiled for the PPC processor. This is all thanks to Rosetta. Those with a processor that supports only SSE2, like the Pentium M chip in my laptop, can run most apps though iTunes and Rosetta need SSE3 support so I’m out of luck their. I must say, it sure is speedy and looks oh so nice on my laptop, even in VMware. Unfortunately I have no support for internet of any sort. It’s still nice to get a taste of OS X before I actually have the money to buy a Mac. I’m itching to buy a Mac Mini and a new LCD. Back to cleaning up my old room and finishing moving into my new one.

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