Video of me running OS X Leopard on a PC
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FIRST OFF: Let me say that this is illegal to do and please don’t ask me to how to do this. I do legally own a copy of Leopard and no, this is not running on my laptop now; I did this purely to show that it is possible to run OS X Leopard on a PC.
Okay, so as you can tell by the video, I had the new Apple operating system OS X 10.5, aka Leopard, running on a Dell E1505 laptop. I installed it using a method called iATKOS. The installation was fast — it took less than an hour — and once the installation was done it booted right into OS X.
I do have three issues with it, though.
- Putting the computer to sleep seems to knock it out cold! I mean, there is no way to unfreeze it; this also includes closing the computer lid.
- I have an Intel 950 video card and sometimes there is graphics tearing. For example, sometimes in iTunes I will have two mouse courses — one is just a dud that is stuck.
- My sound card did not work out of the gate. I had to use a method that allowed me to patch the system to use the HD audio card.
3 Comments
GranitW
February 9th, 2008
at 8:30pm
You probably already know this, but I have one word for your issues: Drivers.
everything you listed have to do with drivers, OS X needs drivers for the sleep mode, it needs it for graphics(like quartz extreme, Core image, so forth), and of course for sounds. OS X has the drivers, now all you need are hacks, or the hardware for them.
Matt
February 9th, 2008
at 10:15pm
Thanks for the comment!
Yeah I was unable to find those drives but as I mentioned before I only did this as a project and I am back on XP and Vista.
I am also happily running Leopard on my iMac though!
Dylan
February 21st, 2008
at 7:45pm
Matt i would really like to know how to install iatkos on a Dell E1505 laptop. I have one too and can’t seem to fiqure it out.