Tom with his new OSX installation on his Intel Dual Core

Posted by Chris Tingom on October 10, 2006 at 3:10 pm.

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Tom installed OSX onto his PC. Here’s a photo of the big moment.

Comment posted by Thomas Chapin on October 10, 2006 at 5:29 pm
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Disclaimer for any Apple representatives browsing by: “This is not a real photo! This never happened. Honest!”

Comment posted by Jeff Schinella on October 10, 2006 at 11:26 pm
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OSX and a mouse with a right-click button on the same machine!…it doesn’t get any better.

Comment posted by Chris Tingom on October 11, 2006 at 12:02 am
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Recognize that mouse, Jeff?

Comment posted by Darian on October 11, 2006 at 8:52 am
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I think that this must be one of the characters cut from the new show Heroes.

“OS X Install On PC Hardware Guy”…

I have been thinking of trying this for a while. How is it going? Any problems running OS X?

Comment posted by Thomas Chapin on October 11, 2006 at 11:28 am
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Actually, my PC has a Radeon 1800XT video card (which isn’t fully supported by OS X), so I couldn’t get Core animation to work correctly. I could have probably figured it out if I’d really wanted to, but I didn’t feel like wasting another 8 hours of my life when I’ve already got a real mac on the floor next to my main computer.

Supposedly, a Radeon 1600 works really well with OS X, but I don’t know for sure.

At any rate, it was basically just a fun experiment to see if it was even possible, but my main system is back to running Windows XP now.

Comment posted by Thomas Chapin on October 11, 2006 at 11:30 am
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Good point about the outlet, Darian. I think it’s leftover from an old light switch. All the wires are capped so there’s not much danger of electrocution or fire, but still, we really need to fix that. Looks awful tacky.

Comment posted by Chris Tingom on October 11, 2006 at 4:04 pm
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Looks?

Comment posted by Thomas Chapin on October 11, 2006 at 4:09 pm
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This will make you happy Darian… Over lunch I went to Home Depot and got a blank cover plate, then I installed it over the hole.

Yes, your comment actually physically changed the appearance of our office.

Comment posted by Chris Tingom on October 11, 2006 at 4:19 pm
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And all of the people in a small village, near St. Elmo, cheared and roasted a duck in honor of the occasion.

Comment posted by Jeff Schinella on October 12, 2006 at 8:48 am
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Ducks are greasy, and Elmo likes to be tickled…do you think ducks are ticklish?