<quotes repositioned and fixed by admin> >>On 31 mar 2006, at 07.56, William Haubrich wrote: > >>A friend claims he's running Tiger 10.4.5 on his specially altered >>pc computer (not a Mac). He's offered this scenario to me as a 1/2 >>price alternative to upgrading to a G5. >>Is this legal? Advisable? Anyone have any experience with this? Hi, >My understanding is that Apple does not allow OS X to run natively >on a PC (for example, a Dell). It can be done via emulation, but >given Logic's power requirements, that's not >advisable. Just to clarify.... the question originally posed is NOT an emulation. It's the Intel based version of OSX running on a non-Apple Intel machine. Is it legal..... I think I can say with all certainty, No! I've heard (never seen) that it runs well on both Intel and AMD processors. If you went this route it's doubtful you would have a regular upgrade path or that all hardware would be supported. It's a hack that tricks OSX into thinking it's running on an Apple machine. Everyone knew that as soon as Apple moved to Intel that Windows would eventually be running (legally) on Macs, and that OSX would be running (illegally) on PCs. HW p.s. If Apple sold OSX as a software package, then anyone could buy a copy and install it on whatever.... that is, if the code isn't modified. This is what MS does and why Mac users will be able to run a legal copy of Windows.