[X4U] OSX hacked to run on current PCs

[T.L. Miller]

On 8/12/05, at 9:56 AM, Steve Self, <steveself at mac.com> said:

>May be too soon to tell, but I think Jobs and company are going to  
>have to do much better keeping the wintel hackers out of OSX. After  
>all, many PC people might try running a lightly hacked OSX on a $300  
>Dell box.  And as they are so used to crashes and lock-ups from XP  
>and Longhorn, the hacked OSX might perform in a similar shaky  
>manner... Leading them to think that OSX is not that big of a deal.  
>They would skip the experience of using it on Apple hardware and  
>therefore miss the whole stable-smooth-aesthetic experience.

Since neither a final Mactel version of OS X or the Apple-engineered
hardware designed to run it is available, it ought to be too soon.
Developments like this may help Apple make the adjustments they need to make.