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Three words: Oh my fucking God! I can’t believe it worked… and it was so flawless!
I downloaded a 4 GB DVD ISO torrent from the Internet which contained OS X “Tiger” 10.4.1 for Intel processors. I burned the image to a DVD and decided to see if it would boot. To my surprise, it did! I dug around the computer room (c’mon, all geeks have computer shit lying about) and found a 15 GB hard drive I pulled from my (hacked) TiVo. I disconnected the Windows Server 2003 hard drive and plugged in the salvaged TiVo drive and booted up my new Tiger x86 DVD.
I’m telling ya… I was never so excited to see an operation system install than I was watching Tiger install on my 2.66 GHz Pentium 4. Things were going smoothly, but I kept waiting for the install to fail. I mean, I was installing software designed for Macintosh computers onto a platform designed for Windows. Microsoft has a hard enough time doing this… how good can Apple be at it? Hell, my sphincter is still sore from “Windows Me.” But, everything worked perfectly, and the installer completed successfully. I’ve had more troubles installing various Windows versions on Intel hardware than I did installing Tiger. I finally see why the new Macs are so stable.
My only bitch was it kept telling me “Less than a minute remaining” under the progress bar. In typical progress bar fashion, that “less than a minute” ended up being close to 5 minutes. All progress bars in all operating systems have this issue, so I can’t call it a “problem.”
So, here I am, making a blog entry (with my Linux laptop), and adding these cool screenshots of my “Macintosh” desktop so my Mac friends can get pissed that I didn’t spend $2000 on Mac hardware.
Pentium 4 computer with 512 MB of RAM: $350.
Salvaged 15 GB hard drive: $0.
OS X Tiger 10.4 for Intel processors: $0.
Having a “free” Mac: Priceless
Hells Yeah! That’s What I’m Talking about!
Bwahahaha, bastard!
Thats too rad, now you got me wanting to try this….. Wonder how well it would dual boot with M$ $eXP