EFiX Talks About its Hackless Hackintosh
MacLife.com has a nice article on the EFiX. The EFiX is a dongle solution that allows you to turn that PC at home into a hackintosh!
For as long as Mac devotees have been flaunting desktop superiority over their Windows counterparts, users on both sides of the fence have clamored for a way to install Mac OS X on a PC. On Monday, the wait may be over.
Dubbed “the best solution for running Mac OS X on PCs” and consisting of a device that is “neither a memory stick nor a thumb drive,” EFiX allows non-Mac users “to install Mac OS X straight from the original DVD without having to worry about patches, replacing files and anything like that” is poised to free the PC world from the shackles of Vista.
Unfortunately, you won’t find one in any U.S. store. But the idea is intriguing nonetheless.
Looks like I’ll be scouting e-bay for this one.
Check out the article at MacLife.comiPhone App Marketing shouldn’t be a Field of Dreams.
Peter Cohen over at Macworld has a sobering article for iPhone Developers. He argues that just because you build an iPhone App doesn’t mean users will flock to it. Peter is afraid based on conversations he had with developers at WWDC. That many iPhone developers are not devising ways to promote and market their apps beyond putting it on the Apple store.
Check it out at Marketing iPhone apps shouldn’t just be a field of dreams
It’s Official Mac OS X 10.6 “Snow Leopard” is Intel only.
MacNN is reporting this morning that 10.6 “Snow Leopard” is Intel only. This is the moment our Power PC brethren have been fearing. The beginning of the end of OS X Power PC support. Can Universal Binary support be far behind? Time to pony the cash for a new Intel Mac my friends.
Some of the other system requirements include:
- Intel processor
- An internal, external, or shared DVD drive
- At least 512 MB of RAM (more is recommended for development)
- A built-in display or display connected to an Apple-supplied video card supported by your computer
- At least 9GB of disk space available, or 12GB of disk space if you install the developer tools.