Now that OS X runs on Intel processors, hackers have been busy trying to get the OS to run on commodity hardware. Early versions of Leopard were modified to run on non-Apple hardware, but the process ...

Remember when Mac OS X only ran on Macs? That era is a thing of the past, as a group of hackers have already managed to install Leopard on vanilla PCs, with only a modicum of effort required. As ...

Two years ago, I detailed how to build a Hackintosh for under $800—then covered how to do the same with less hacking. Now that Snow Leopard's out, we're revisiting the Hackintosh, building a Hack Pro ...

OS X and Macs are like chocolate and peanut butter, two great tastes that taste great together. However, nowadays OS X is designed to run on Intel processors, which power most of the world's non-Apple ...

My first computer was a Mac, and for many years that's the only thing that I would use. Unfortunately, as I got older it became more apparent that I was living in a world dominated by PCs. Eventually ...

Snow Leopard's across-the-board leap to 64-bits, from the kernel to all of its bundled apps, will do more than just make more memory available. It also exposes a great PC swindle and highlights ...

PC World WorldBench tests likewise indicate “incremental” speed improvements. Whether Snow Leopard is faster than Leopard seems to depend both on the task and on the machine. Windows 7 is a worthy ...

While the world focused on Microsoft’s launch of Windows 7, Florida-based Psystar quietly launched Rebel EFI, a software product that should worry Apple a lot more than Microsoft‘s latest operating ...

When is a Windows PC not a Windows PC? When you toss out the Windows and replace it with Apple’s Mac OS X Snow Leopard or any other major operating system. That’s what you can do–at least for the ...