Well, that sure didn’t take long.
This French site explains how to get OSX (intel developer build) to run on a plain vanilla intel PC. They also offer a couple of torrent files (.mov) that show the system booting up & running. [Note to cameraman…I know it’s pretty exciting but use a tripod for your next amazing video]
The “this french site” link runs their page through Google’s translator…so it’s a bit quirky…but if you get one of the movies (preferably the 2nd one), you’ll see that it works.
I think Apple considers itself primarily a hardware company but if they would enable OS X to run on junkbox intel PC’s they’d soon discover that they were suddenly making a lot more money. They could still make Apple hardware–and many users would pay a bit more for the integrated solution–but as Mr. Gates’ bankers will tell you, you can get pretty rich just selling an OS.
My only gripe about this whole MacIntel thing is that it wasn’t unveiled as a “MacAMD” solution…I mean, an Opteron would have saved Apple from having to take back all their 64-bit hype and created a more attractive product to boot (no pun intended). I still wonder where XServe fits in this intel strategy. Maybe Apple figures Intel will have a decent 64-bit chip by the time the transition hits the Apple’s server lineup.