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Heh, I'm just about in the mix for a render farm. I was hoping to go with Mac OS X because it would be easier to set it up w/o the need for an extra monitor.

Yeah, you don't get around the other fourm threads much.
If you had, you'd have seen my various posts inqiuring into whether or not Mac On Linux would be ported to x86 verisons of Linux.
It's worked for non-Apple PowerPCs ( which don't have the ROM or Firmware either ), I'm certain someone can make it work on the new platform, as well, which would enable you to run X on any x86 box running Linux, or at least any Intel box running Linux.
And considering Steve Jobs displayed OS X running on a PENTIUM 4, I think it's very safe to say x86.

Apple is selling developer systems for the same reason they have in the past, and it's for the same reason they're only seeding the x86 version of OS X to developers. It's not ready for public consumption. Apples will still be manufactured by other companies, of pieces manufactured by other companies, same as with the PowerPC, which brings me full-circle to the point I've made about MOL.

And you've made a BAD assumption; about me not understanding Mac ROMs and firmware, but thanks for the history lesson...

I think you're also making the assumption that these developer's boxes are plain Intels without the ROM and firmware, without any evidence to back that sort of claim.

If you're simply pissed because they've made the switch, that's fine, but save the rest of us the drama, thanks.

Last edited by ironhawk (2005-06-06 4:01 pm)

First thought I had was: "Oh this is gonna make PearPC ppl happy"

They will no longer have to emulate a RISC processor and get horrible speeds. Then with loads of new x86 ppl messing with Macs now its just gonna be a matter of time until some hackers got OSX cracked.

Meesa thinkin Apple underestimates the resiliance of the PC hacking community .

When they do get it hacked i'll be building me a real x86 Mac system off a Athlon 64 dual core setup and loads of other sweet stuff

Heck with Pentiums, Intel blows, i'm goin AMD all the way

Any of you guys read the article on all of this just out today over at Ars?

I've never used it.

I thought it was this in your title before?

NightCougar_37 wrote:

ironhawk wrote:

Yeah. I think he called me a geek
I do like VoIP

We are in Hacking forums and we constantly talk about extreme modding and overclocking. Of course we are geeks!!

mmmmm, urge to kill steve, RISING!!!

But anywho, yeah, I want to somehow upclock my iBook G4 up to  at least the 1.3-1.5GHz range but nobody has done it yet so I can't do it.

Evidence so far points in the direction of the Apple Intel dev box being an Intel D945GTP motherboard with a Pentium 4 660 CPU. Right off the shelf.

The motherboard can be had for about $140, so all you need then are a CPU and a copy of Tiger for Intel.

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