Along with Intel's impressive demo of the Light Peak optical device interconnect it seems as though Intel has unveiled some previously unknown part of their company. The guys over at Engadget  noticed that the rig Intel was using for the demo was running MAC OS X. Check out the video at Engadget and see for yourself!

Updated: Well it looks like there is more to this than originally posted. It seems as though Apple came to Intel with the concept for them to develop. More on that here

no i think that it is an apple developer platform

the good news is that this technology is ready for mac os x

This is Snow Leopard, and note that big fat orange drive icon!

Ok the developer of the CPUs and m/b's in Apples computers running a developers demo on OS X. Then so what? Are the Apple testbeds hackintoshes before they are formally released?

yeah i saw it , it's really suspicious, but remember that this technology is not internal, so if you set the finder preferences to only show external drives, you will have the same result




hum maybe, but i don't think so, not before that apple will have at least 20-30% of market share, with the extraordinary growth of apple since 2006, maybe in 2 or 3 years they will reach this goal, it's will be hard but possible especially if windows seven is not a commercial succes, but be in frontal concurrency with microsoft is to dangerous for now

Apple must be the first company to use this new technology.... why else would they write software for it?

Does this mean that Apple are using INTEL MOTHERBOARDS?hehehe

Yes. The first hackintoshes used a retail Intel motherboard that was almost identical to the first Intel Apple desktops. Once OSX was hacked far enough installation became possible on a wider variety of systems. I expect all Apple desktops start out on Intel retail or developer hardware and then Apple makes a few changes to the design and sends it off to their manufacturers. Apple doesn't have the resources to build a complete hardware system from the ground up.

its not a Mac Mini.. everybody hates those . and its not a Mac Pro because they come with a Monitor dont they? and i dont see a small apple on tht one ;P

Updated: Well it looks like there is more to this story than originally revealed. It seems like Apple actually asked Intel to develop the technology. More info here

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holy crap. SUPPORTING?!!?!? hackint0sh's??? that would explain why there isnt a law suit right now...

I dont think that's a hackintosh, it's a Mac Pro taken apart with some modifications...

What we see here is a lab setup of a future Apple product, which I presume will be introduced by Apple with a near future Mac Pro upgrade.