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Story: Running Mac OS X on standard PCs
depends on the hardware
I found Kalyway was the easiest way to install from scratch, direct from DVD, and this is on commodity ASRock hardware, with IDE, DDR RAM, AGP and a Core2 Duo (Conroe) (Socket 775)
The only problems are the AGP slot, which isn't quartz enabled, the Intel 865 chipset is a known problem, but there is an AGP GART plugin for those who want to test it.
The real issue is network cards, an unsupported network card can bork the whole installation, I turn off the internal as it just wouldn't boot and socket a 3Com, worked fine after that.
It's not true to say that keyboard and mouse must be USB, they're not on mine, and both work fine. I did however buy a wired USB apple keyboard, and then found that with that plugged into the USB slot, it was seen by both the BIOS and the OS, (even the volume keys worked) but the mouse only worked if it was plugged into the keyboard in this configuration, but this is hardly surprising, as that's the *only* way it can work on a real Mac.
I have it installed on a single drive, and boot switch via the BIOS popup, and crappy default browser aside, (easily remedied with Firefox) it makes for a pleasant enough experience, If you're curious it's well worth a look, but don't expect to find any books what explains how it works under the hood, there aren't any. Nor are the "geniuses" in the Apple store of any use, as they have no idea either.
I'm hoping to get hold of some apple hardware soon, or failing that I may just ditch XP for OSX come my next upgrade.
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