Help with Apple G5 Look-alike?

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Hi,

Does anyone know of any cases that look very similar to the apple G5's? I want to do a small project of building a PC and get OSX running on it, so a case that looks like the aluminium G5 case would be great. Any ideas please??

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The word on the net is that Apple are going to intel hardware and the software developers have been given the intel hardware and OSx86 as they call it to develop software and do some debugging. So it looks like OSX on a PC is a real possibility. Should be a good laugh to try though!
 
Ah so its not OSX for mac really its developed for intel so almost a pc anyway :)
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Kind of, it is still Mac OSX, but as I said, all macs are going to go to intel hardware, which I suppose does mean that they are essentially PCs running a form of Linux/unix really.
 
Apple has said that they don't mind people using Windows XP on Apple machines, but they will not offer support. They don't want people using OSX on pc's, and apparently the new OSX update 10.4.5 has some new fixes to stop people putting it on pc's.
 
OSX will only run nativley on new Intel processors due to them using EFI and not standard BIOS addresssing. Unfortunatley, this does mean you cannot get OSX to run on an AMD processor (well none of the current ones). This is how Apple/Intel secured OSX to their CPU's for the time being.

You can however run 1 of 2 OSX clones on any PC. There's PearPC, which from personal experience, works well though can be clunky to set up. Any currently there is a new port of OSX10.4 for SSE3 based processors (OSx86), though this is in early development and requires a lot of cmd line input just to get it to install.

Tbh, if your going to all the hassle to make a G5 clone, why not just get a MacMini instead? Be a dams site easier and cheaper.
 
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Tbh, if your going to all the hassle to make a G5 clone, why not just get a MacMini instead? Be a dams site easier and cheaper.
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Because that wouldn't be a challenge would it. Like most people in here, in forums anywhere, they are constantly trying to go one step further than they have done in the past.
 
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Because that wouldn't be a challenge would it. Like most people in here, in forums anywhere, they are constantly trying to go one step further than they have done in the past.
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Well that's easy. Get yourself a Pentium CPU wich supports EFI (any of the latest ones will do the job) and a copy of Tiger 10.4 and bobs your uncle. No need for emulation or hacked x86 versions of OSX what so ever.
 
Macs are designed as standard designs, so the OS only has to be designed to work with a limited number of configurations, is that not why it is a more robust OS than windows generally, so building your own Mac just means your adding a point of failure to the system surely?
 
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Good point I guess so, but its all No swearing! and giggles at the end of the day. Really there isnt much point in doing aside the fact to prove that it can be done on hardware that it probably wasnt intended for. Oh and for personal satisfaction of getting it to work.
 
Yeh good bragging rights, but when the Mac Mini is so cheap I do not see the reason why you need to, OSX is not for most peoples uses in need of the latest spec PC's.
 
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