teknojunkie Posted June 14, 2008 Share Posted June 14, 2008 On any Pc that is already OSX 98% compatible meaning you need an Intel Processor. Of course it won't work with AMD you are using the original DVD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacThomas Posted June 14, 2008 Share Posted June 14, 2008 But they didn't mentioned that Intel cpus only. They say "That means you can buy a regular PC, Mac OS X and EFiX and enjoy what the Mac users have always enjoyed" And regular pc would be both : amd and intel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dantès Posted June 14, 2008 Share Posted June 14, 2008 Do your homework folks : http://www.art-studios.net/index.php?optio...5&Itemid=53 Even better : http://www.sumo.tv/watch.php?video=1060144 This is the creator of your USB [Mac on a stick]. This is him a few years ago : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvCVVAfRrFE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
br0adband Posted June 14, 2008 Share Posted June 14, 2008 If this is just software on a USB stick, as soon as one person "buys" it we'll see it posted all over the place as a writable image anyone can apply to any USB stick. Locking it down so it can't or won't be sold in the US or North America (if that's the case) will be about as effective as the EULA telling us not to install OSX on anything but "Apple-labeled hardware." The cat's outta the bag, as the saying goes, before the cat's actually out of the bag. Go figure... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mebster Posted June 15, 2008 Share Posted June 15, 2008 If this is just software on a USB stick, as soon as one person "buys" it we'll see it posted all over the place as a writable image anyone can apply to any USB stick. Locking it down so it can't or won't be sold in the US or North America (if that's the case) will be about as effective as the EULA telling us not to install OSX on anything but "Apple-labeled hardware." The cat's outta the bag, as the saying goes, before the cat's actually out of the bag. Go figure... Haven't seen you in ages mate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nameless2k Posted June 15, 2008 Share Posted June 15, 2008 i vote for cant transfeer code! its need good protection You're damn right. If I was them I would definitly integrate a nice protection. But... since the runtime code needs to be executed from the CPU it needs to be decoded first. [parts removed] Anyway protecting software is a nice biz aswell kd rgds, nl2k Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
webterractive Posted June 15, 2008 Share Posted June 15, 2008 Efix is nothing more then an EFI boot device to trick the disc to think that EFI is present. It must use some EFI dump from an existing Mac. You will need to keep in the USB port as the OS won't boot without it. Pretty Vanilla, but you still run into the issues that you get when you try updating using Software Update. Efix was made to contest Pystar who Netkas calls rip-off scammers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iSkylla Posted June 15, 2008 Share Posted June 15, 2008 You can run Software update and do the major updates with a simple kext and a one line edit the dsmos. That's nothing special. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ImDude Posted June 15, 2008 Share Posted June 15, 2008 I assume you will need a motherboard that supports USB boot functionality, USB is gonna act as a motherboard for OSX, so not a bad idea, I like it a lot, and I can't wait to get my hands on that thingy, who cares that it will not sell in US, its just a USB dongle loaded with software and this software will be extracted and improved if needed and I bet will be free since people will be sharing the image. so in my opinion first will load normal bios than > USB and USB I guess will load OSX Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teknojunkie Posted June 15, 2008 Share Posted June 15, 2008 there site has been updated i think they will have updates for there product and they have different verisions laptop, desktop alot of them. so go check it out www.efi-x.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrbonkers Posted June 15, 2008 Share Posted June 15, 2008 i dont see any updates. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hyper X Posted June 15, 2008 Share Posted June 15, 2008 New info is needed. Once we get those details we can all move forward. Is it hardware or software based? Do you still need dsmos.kext? Do you need to remove IntelCPUPowermanagment.kext Will it support hardware natively? Will you need pc-efi strings? Will it be updated as apple makes changes? Will we need modified and addition Kext's? ect... ect... ect... Hopefully we will get answers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclonefr Posted June 15, 2008 Share Posted June 15, 2008 IMO there is gonna be a co-processor on it to prevent copy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Baron Posted June 15, 2008 Share Posted June 15, 2008 IMO there is gonna be a co-processor on it to prevent copy or maybe a USB dongle that plugs into the USB stick? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
curlyboy Posted June 15, 2008 Share Posted June 15, 2008 Doesnt it say on there front page that you can buy a regular pc and efi-x and osx and and install without patched or changing files ? im asking is what defines a regular pc ?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teknojunkie Posted June 15, 2008 Share Posted June 15, 2008 On there products there is a PCI Verison of EFI-X Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted June 15, 2008 Share Posted June 15, 2008 People, stop posting good ideas! They are reading this thread and taking ideas from it as shown by the PCI version of EFI-X. Oh great, now they are going to use nameless2k's method for protecting the software: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?s=&...st&p=783879 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teknojunkie Posted June 15, 2008 Share Posted June 15, 2008 true stop posting good ideas unless they broaden the area where they sell it. Well hopefully their is something good at I wouldn't mind buying it since, if it is possible to install everything that is on the dvd and no patches applied i wonder how it would work with efi injectors would it automatically find you bus cards, since i took an atheros wireless card and stuck it in a my macbook pro since the other one broke and it automatically detected it, does it have some injectors already injected into efi. Hmmm i wonder how that would work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ImDude Posted June 15, 2008 Share Posted June 15, 2008 there is no f way they will be able to lock the dongle from extracting software. I don't know or heard a software/ hardware that hasn't been hacked so relax ppl. I bet those dongles will not be compatible with just any motherboard, I think they will release a list of boards that this dongle will work with. also for some reason I want to believe that some of Netkas work went into that dongle, will find out pretty soon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
awesomo Posted June 15, 2008 Share Posted June 15, 2008 this could be a beautiful end to our project. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrbonkers Posted June 15, 2008 Share Posted June 15, 2008 what i think is in the usb is a flash drive which is bootable and all the patched kext are inside it. so when the user boots the flash drive, the usb drive redirects it to your dvd. like rd=disk1s1. so all the important kexts are already loaded and the rest of the loading is the dvd. i was able to boot the original dvd with the steps mentioned above. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teknojunkie Posted June 15, 2008 Share Posted June 15, 2008 what i think is in the usb is a flash drive which is bootable and all the patched kext are inside it. so when the user boots the flash drive, the usb drive redirects it to your dvd. like rd=disk1s1. so all the important kexts are already loaded and the rest of the loading is the dvd. nope Netkas has stated that it doesnt use anything like that. SG June 12th, 2008 | 5:45 pm i believe this thing is simply a small boot device with a efi emulator and custom boot loader where you simply choose which device to boot. all this does is allows you to boot ‘real’ OSX devices without the pcefi bootloader, its like passing the rd= arg when booting with F8. the magic would be if the program detected your hardware and injected the proper efi strings (it would need a big database of common hardware for this to happen, but doable). cool news anyways, it’ll be nice to get if the price is right in case i ever need to boot a real OSX dvd or a good way for newbs who cant install a bootloader. netkas June 12th, 2008 | 5:54 pm SG, there is no passing rd= to kernel, believe me it has fully-functional cd-reading driver. so there you have it. if that was the case it could have been a long time ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrbonkers Posted June 15, 2008 Share Posted June 15, 2008 O.o.. sorry didnt know about that. that explains the gui when he selects his dvd drive Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
comatron Posted June 15, 2008 Share Posted June 15, 2008 I don't know or heard a software/ hardware that hasn't been hacked so relax ppl. cubase 4 & usb dongle - uncrackable Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teknojunkie Posted June 15, 2008 Share Posted June 15, 2008 cubase 4 & usb dongle - uncrackable yep you are right its basically uncrackable. ithink you should delete this post people are watchin [jk] lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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