Anyone running oSX on a PC yet?

[Spud1]

Yeah but chances are if you moved a drive with a Windows XP install from a box with an Intel chipset and an Intel CPU into a box with another Intel chipset and an Intel CPU it would work fine as well. I don't see your argument, with a PC if it died for whatever reason, and money was no object and you wanted an instant replacement/upgrade . . . you could change just the failed part.

It has only worked for me once with different hardware, and I think that was a fluke (or morelikely the same hardware rebranded)..windows is very very picky about hardware when it wants to be...If your Apple dies you send it back, get a new one or a replacement (apple care is great ) and if you don't take out the applecare then you can always go to ebay for mac parts, mac's and PCs are not that different on the inside when it comes to installing components (visually, not technically)..

Also just to point something out,[NOT aimed at Caged] we shouldn't really be talking about running OSX86 here, unless it is pearpc or the equivalent (and even they are grey areas...) Reasoning?

A) there are no boxed/retail/CD/DVD versions of OSX 10.4.4 yet (the only legal osx86 version) so you're probably not using that (as you say in your post)
B) Unless you are on the apple/intel dev team (unlikely i guess?) then there is only one way you could have got a copy of osx86..see where this is going?
C) Even if you legally own a copy of OSX86 (eg you bought an intel based mac) then you STILL can't use it on a 'normal' PC, as your licence restricts you from doing so, and apart from that it also restricts you from applying the patches to the image to letyou run without an SSE3 compatable chip...

[nichomach]

As far as XP goes, I've bumped the same install from a PII 350 to an Athlon 1.2 to an XP2400 without issues. Radically different hardware can be a major heartache, but can usually be dealt with by running a repair install after moving the drive, I've found.