Mac hacks allow OS X on PCs

Operating systems are not high on the conversational topics agenda at Gizmag. Every day we get fantastic new ideas sent to us and the conversation is normally about wireless light switches, install-in-a-few-hours home elevators or outrageous boys toy. But Apple’s switch to Intel processors and how it has changed the forward personal computing plans of those who hang around the office was interesting. As the whole world has found out about Apple thanks to the iPod, there are still those who harbour some hope that Apple’s operating system will again see double figure percentages of the installed base, and some who dream of even more. Apple’s OSX rocks! and there are few who have tried it who don’t want to use it, particularly those who pride themselves on productivity. Wired magazine is the original magazine of the Digital Age – at least the last one standing from the first wave. Its original backers included none other than Digital Soothsayer Nicholas Negroponte and the magazine’s web site ran the first 468 x 60 banner advert and … it is a landmark journal and regularly breaks important digital lifestyle stories and we think the magazine’s latest lead is very important. It seems that hackers have found a way to bypass a chip designed to prevent the Mac OS from running on non-Apple PCs, which are often cheaper than Macs. And the new OSX on PC runs faster on a PC than it does on a Mac.