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Few questions about OS X...
hm_murdock:
A G4 400 will be perfectly acceptable for OS X. Mine is a dual 500 (upgraded to dual 1.8) G4. I added a Radeon 8500 card, but even the Rage 128 that comes stock on that series is just fine for displaying video, DVD, et cetera, though it lacks greatly for 3D games.
#1 thing is to get plenty of RAM. I'm running 1.12GB on here, but anything over 512MB should be A-OK.
Re: hardware. Most PCI cards will work, drivers permitting. USB, Firewire, drive controllers, those usually do allright. Network cards? Ehh. Vid cards? No way. You either have to have a Mac vid card, or flash an appropriate model of PC card.
These guys use regular PC100 or PC133 SDRAM, ATA drives, and the like. I recommend a G4 500, and then... go from there. :)
The trouble required to make OS X run on unsupported non-Apple branded hardware is immense! If you really wanna run it, best bet is to just get the right hardware! I'll be here if ya got more questions!
worker201:
FYI, installing Ubuntu PPC and OSX side by side on Apple hardware and then dual booting is no trouble at all. Ubuntu installs this program which I think is called yaboot that brings up an OS choice menu at boot time, similar to grub or lilo.
Unfortunately, it appears impossible to partition a drive that already has OSX installed on it. My method was to wipe the drive, and then create 3 partitions with the OSX install cd (OSX, ext3, swap), and then installing OSX. Using the Ubuntu installer, you kill the ext3 partition, and then the installer will make a boot block and use the rest of the space for itself, making it ext3 again. Very convenient.
Therefore, I guess if you were a crazy motherfucker, you could do all of this on a PC.
obob:
wait what are you saying to do on a PC??
Install ubuntu and then load OS X from installation media, and then go back to the ubuntu installation? (and to make it even more time consuming, load NT alongside that)
bedouin:
I don't think this forum should support running OS X on non Apple hardware.
Sorry, it's a cool OS that's subsidized solely through hardware sales and one of the few things that made me really happy to use a computer in the past 5 years; I'd rather not have that jeopardized by dorks warezing bootleg copies from their bedroom.
obob:
Alright, Apple moving to x86 is a reality, and it sounds like you're honestly saying that you want Apple to stay super proprietary and super closed in on itself (which it still is, for the most part) just so that it's an "elite membership" to have an Apple.
Furthermore, I was just asking questions, and my computers aren't in my bedroom, I actually have an office :P
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