ZDNet UK has published a first look at Mac OS X on x86, installing the Mac OS X operating system on a generic PC and circumventing Apple’s own security measures: “When Steve Jobs announced the platform change, he publicly demonstrated Apple computers with Intel processors running an x86 version of Mac OS X. The OS is bound directly to the hardware by a special security chip. However, some developers have succeeded in circumventing this coupling, allowing the operating system to be installed on any x86 system, as this test report shows.” The report describes the 2-hr installation process and benchmarks on aToshiba Portégé M300 notebook equipped with a 1.2GHz Pentium M processor and 512MB of RAM, noting that Mac OS X faster on startup, on par with power consumption and shutdown, and less memory hungry than its Windows XP counterpart on the same hardware, but slower in application-based tests–in part due to the Rosetta emulation environment.

Story via MacNN & ZDNet UK [LINK]

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