Video: OS X 10.4.3 dual-booted on a Thinkpad

By now a lot of us have seen videos of Apple OS X running on PCs, but we got ahold of this latest video of 10.4.3 running on a Thinkpad -- and it's running damned fast if you ask us. The video drivers still aren't up to snuff and neither is the wireless (no big surprise on either), but we have a feeling that when the official x86 10.4.4 build hits the streets next month there's gonna be a huge surge of development and adaption going on.

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[habitual Posted Jan 17th 2006 10:02PM]

i have 10.4.3 running on a 3 year old dell dimension 4550 P4 2.66ghz. Since this processor doesnt support sse3 you have to run the sse2 patches from maxxuss, but it runs super fast and Quartz Extreme and Core Image are both running on a 69 dollar Radeon 9550. I have not booted into XP for over 2 months now. OSX86 is super fast and super stable.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 18th 2006 10:16AM]

does ethernet work with the thinkpad t40? i'm thinking of trying it on mine, but it would be useless if i couldn't get the net to run. also, can you access the pc drive partitions (ntfs)?

[leoport Posted Jan 22nd 2006 4:32PM]

Scott (#52):
Yeah, Ethernet works and you can access NTFS drives. However, you cannot change or write to NTFS files (read only).

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 25th 2006 6:26AM]

I've got the Thinkpad T41p with the Fire GL2. OSX is running fine and I installed the Ati drivers, but still my graphic performance isn't close to what I saw in the video.

So I'd like to know whih driver is running on the Thinkpad in the video?

Viper_55

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 25th 2006 11:28AM]

Why?? I don't understand the attraction or the fascination. OS X is a derivitive or FreeBSD, which has been running on x86 hardware forever. If you want something stable like a Mac, buy a Mac. If you just want a stable OS, install the Linux distro of your choosing, it'll run as fast or faster than OS X. I'm partial to Debian.