First Developer Intel Macs (Photos)
ThinkSecret posts information and photos from the first of the development Intel Macs that are being offered for $999 to developers to prepare for the Intel switch over the next two years.
As described in earlier reports, Windows will install on the developer Intel Mac but at present appears to have limited graphics card support.
The graphics card is an Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 800 with DVI support provided by an additional Silicon Image Orion ADD2-N Dual Pad x16 card. A photo of the motherboard is also provided.
Of note, the developer version of Intel-Mac OS X will not install on other PCs:
According to the rumor site, Apple is expected to use an "EDID" chip on the motherboard of final production Intel Macs to provide protection to prevent use of Mac OS X on other machines.
Some additional comments and external photos can be seen in this MacRumors Forum thread.
Appleinsider posts more photos and details.
As described in earlier reports, Windows will install on the developer Intel Mac but at present appears to have limited graphics card support.
The graphics card is an Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 800 with DVI support provided by an additional Silicon Image Orion ADD2-N Dual Pad x16 card. A photo of the motherboard is also provided.
Of note, the developer version of Intel-Mac OS X will not install on other PCs:
As for installing Mac OS X on non-Apple hardware, attempts to boot from the included Mac OS X for Intel disc resulted in an error message on both a Dell and off-brand PC. The message states that the hardware configuration is not supported by Darwin x86.
According to the rumor site, Apple is expected to use an "EDID" chip on the motherboard of final production Intel Macs to provide protection to prevent use of Mac OS X on other machines.
Some additional comments and external photos can be seen in this MacRumors Forum thread.
Appleinsider posts more photos and details.
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87 months ago
ThinkSecret just isn't going to be happy until Apple takes everything they have through lawsuits...
87 months ago
It's like the first look at your ugly newborn baby, knowing that everyone else is looking at it too, and hoping that one day, it'll shed it's ugliness and evolve into something great.
87 months ago
Yeah, this one boots up in windows but this has nothing to do with what the final Macintels will do.
87 months ago
That's really encouraging to me that you can't install Mac OS X onto a PC, even at this early development stage. I think that just made my day. :D
-Chase
-Chase
87 months ago
YUCK!
Looks like the inside of a HP.
I'm buying the bigest baddest G5 PM in the fall or early next year.
Yuck, yuck, yuck.
*throws up in mouth*
Looks like the inside of a HP.
I'm buying the bigest baddest G5 PM in the fall or early next year.
Yuck, yuck, yuck.
*throws up in mouth*
87 months ago
That's really encouraging to me that you can't install Mac OS X onto a PC, even at this early development stage. I think that just made my day. :D
-Chase
Or have they disabled it on this machine too?
87 months ago
The question is, will microsoft make it somehow inpossible to install windows on these machines in the future?
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