Comments on: OS X running on an ordinary x86 PC

By: arkadaş

arkadaş — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 22:42:59 +0000

you were right, even ppc compiled Photoshop or Office 2004 works on Rosetta at a reasonable speed! I don’t

By: estetik

estetik — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 13:06:48 +0000

I really wander what is the speed of OSX running on ordinary PC?

By: Paul Goscicki

Paul Goscicki — Sun, 11 Sep 2005 08:40:44 +0000

Compared to the Windows XP running on the same hardware, how much slower, for example, Photoshop is?

By: Philippe

Philippe — Sat, 10 Sep 2005 10:58:11 +0000

I too played around with osx86 now - you were right, even ppc compiled Photoshop or Office 2004 works on Rosetta at a reasonable speed! I don’t know how much binaries are “fat” compiled - that’s for ppc and x86.

By: Paul Goscicki

Paul Goscicki — Fri, 19 Aug 2005 15:18:42 +0000

I believe it has little to do with what Steve was talking about. I still think that almost all software should be working without any porting whatsoever as OS X is supposedly running natively. It’s the hardware where the problems begin - not every piece of hardware is supported by the OS. It is BSD at the core of the OS X so that’s why it is able to work. OS X is just a graphical interface (that’s a simplification, because it’s much more).

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By: Philippe

Philippe — Thu, 18 Aug 2005 08:27:14 +0000

That leaves me a bit confused… Steve talked about all the porting to the intel architecture and I thought that has to be done to every bit of code or at least the “programming language interpreter”?
Tell me if I’m completely wrong!

By: Paul Goscicki

Paul Goscicki — Thu, 18 Aug 2005 08:18:17 +0000

Wish I knew the answer. But still I think that 99% of all the Mac stuff should be working. There are some things requiring SSE3 from Intel processors, but other than that everything (almost?) should be ok.

By: Philippe

Philippe — Thu, 18 Aug 2005 06:04:48 +0000

That sure does sound cool! I just managed to get some aqua look and feel on my xp machine… (see my site)

But there aren’t may programs yet supported on Intel? Only safari, iphoto, just like “default stuff”? Otherwise I should consider installing os x myself..