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Well, another year, and another installment to the Mac OS X lineup. This time, Snow Leopard is the lock, and the x86 machine of your choice will be the key to unlocking it. In recent (and not so recent) news, EFI-X is on the way to releasing a USB dongle that will allow you to boot unmodified Apple DVDs on standard x86 hardware. Much luck to them! As the topic is the newest release of the OS X family, it is only fitting to have an exclusive preview of the development work done by anonymous on 10A96. Enjoy!

...could it be a (semi)perfect match?

After chatting on the EeeUser forums, it became apparent that there are quite a few people looking to use this unique platform in a very unique way.  As Leopard seems to have space requirements that far exceed the SDHC storage of the Eee PC, a custom DVD for this system is looking like it could be a benefit to the users out there.  Without rambling on forever, I'm proposing a ToH EeePC 9A581GM RC2 DVD (damn that's a mouthful).

Hey, it's the least I can do :P

Okay, with the advent of the EFI project by the skilled members in ToH, it has come to my attention that videos are the best way to convey a message (rather than a still image.)  So, with this news, I was wondering if You all want me to post a video of the Leopard EFI project booting on my lowly Pentium D system.  It would take some time to get it running however...

Coming to a beige-box near you... it's the final build of Leopard to come out of Cupertino! The kernel was hacked in record time to support AMD/Intel SSE2/SSE3 processors and (for AMD) the required files were decrypted and packaged up. Congrats go out to everyone (both Apple and ToH developers) who worked on this.
64bit support is limited at the moment as it takes advantage of the SSSE3 instruction found on the Conroe-based processors, but work is being done to support 64bit SSE3 only cpus. Check back here for more news from the ToH developers.

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Well, after a successful start on Leopard, it seems that Apple has indeed thrown us one (possibly major) obstacle. After reviewing the system itself, it appears that kexts, frameworks, and some applications have been digitally signed. There is no word yet if it is possible to hack said signed executables, or if it is merely done as a sanity check to ensure that certain files have not been compromised by an outside source, but it sure looks like an ominous sign.

More to come as progress is made

With the upcoming release of Apple's latest release of Mac OS X, it is only fitting that we see a new hardware update. Possible products to get upgraded:

MacBook (non-pro): Possibility of the 965 chipset and updated graphics (x3100 anyone?)
Mac Pro: 45nm Quad core processor

This is purely speculation, but it is definitely worth keeping in the back of your head while considering a new hardware purchase.

Well, after an extended hiatus from the OSx86 "scene," bikedude is back with the ADC release of Mac OS X Leopard build 9a559. Reports are that this build could possibly be some of the best news to come out of Cupertino since Apple announced their transition to the Intel architecture. With the iPod Touch hacking coming along extremely slowly (damn you Apple and your encrypting the RAM disk with AES-256) this build is giving developers an extremely easy time in comparison. In comparison with the previous update (9a528d), the UI has been reported to be significantly faster. The only downfall is that the minimum amount of RAM has been increased from 256MB to 512MB (severely reducing the amount of hardware it will run on without an upgrade). Expect more news in the following weeks as Apple ramps up for it's final release of it's most innovative OS release yet.

EDIT: Well shit, this is what I get for posting this right after I get up... a whole day and the wrong build number :P

Roughly one week after the ever-so-holy WWDC conference in San Francisco, the latest build of Leopard (9a466) was leaked on several P2P networks.  With over 600 people with the full image, it should only be a matter of time before people start asking "Will this boot on a PC?"  Check back for more news as it develops.

Well, with a little bit of time, I managed to dig up some (not so) secret information about the the next build of Leopard.  According to my source, the last reported build of Leopard is version 9a457.  While it is not yet known if this is going to be the build released at WWDC, this does mean that Apple is making a lot of changes to the OS... hopefully this will bring about those "new features."

Check back for more news on Leopard and the OSx86 scene.

Yeah, after a brief conflict with a couple other people, the real bikedude is back. I won't be doing much development for a while (being 40 miles from your computer really takes the development right out of you :P), but I will still make my presence known on the osx86.hu IRC chat (irc.osx86.hu #hackint0sh) and on the hackint0sh.org forums. I still have that donation page if you feel the need to send me support (I'm working on an old Sharp laptop with no CD or floppy drive, 366Mhz Pentium 2 proc, and 128MB RAM). Check back here for more OS X updates as they happen... or when I can get around to it...