Well for anyone who is interested in Apple computers, you may have already heard that someone last week hacked the Intel developer image of OS X to run on any machine. Really it was only a matter of time.
So incase you hadn’t yet guessed…. I installed this on my trusty old P4 (I knew the thing would come in handy again one day!). It really is the oddest feeling to have OS X booting on a machine like this, very much like you’re breaking the rules. Here’s some proof:

The install wasn’t an easy one although I believe now that someone has created an image that is already patched etc and so its pretty straightforward. I’ve yet to find anything that doesn’t work, however thats not to say it runs perfectly. There are occasional graphics glitches and I can only get a single monitor working. It didn’t like a PS2 mouse at all so I’ve switched to a USB one that seems fine. Also I can’t get any resolution over 800×600 so it looks a little ugly but hey, its running!

I’ll add more about it later, probably a few more screenshots too.

Update: I’ve got Rosetta working now so in theory I can run ANY precompiled OS X app (IE something that was compiled on PowerPC). I’ve tested it with iTunes and its working ok. The next thing I want to try is something that has AltiVec code in it 😉