Numberzz Posted April 1, 2008 Share Posted April 1, 2008 While examining the AppleSMBIOS.kext binary from the 10.5.3 beta of Leopard, a member discovered a mention of a Hewlett Packard server, the ProLiant DL140 G3 Server. After some investigations, we’ve noticed that the hardware used by this server is rather close to what is already used by current Macs. : Intel graphics, 2 broadcom network NICs, and a 5000X motherboard, which is very close to the Mac Pro. So what does this mean? Is Apple planning to license OSX for this non-apple hardware? The string was found at offset 292D, also notice the « Apple Hardware=0 » string Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rhyguy Posted April 1, 2008 Share Posted April 1, 2008 mabye apple are going to buy computers of hp and applify them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krazubu Posted April 1, 2008 Share Posted April 1, 2008 Nice, however I'm not sure it's gonna open many new possibilites reguarding hackintosh, it's still restricted hardware, non upgradable, and no new drivers for it. But maybe they'll gonna expand their coming to the PC world, it looks promising. In that case it could be very interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zik_man Posted April 1, 2008 Share Posted April 1, 2008 hehe, good examinating Mayby it's because HP include "G3" in his server name Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mk14 Posted April 1, 2008 Share Posted April 1, 2008 April Fools joke?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khaled_acmilan Posted April 1, 2008 Share Posted April 1, 2008 apple will be ever produce it's hardware no way to stop production of any Mac to any other company. All in my opinion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lulu123 Posted April 1, 2008 Share Posted April 1, 2008 haha...dont fool us Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
westwaerts Posted April 1, 2008 Share Posted April 1, 2008 nice try, happy easter, bunny. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nitramusa Posted April 1, 2008 Share Posted April 1, 2008 Hmm.. My ROFLcopter goes soi soi soi soi soi! Nice try Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bearcat Posted April 1, 2008 Share Posted April 1, 2008 It's a fake, I can confirm that the string is NOT present in AppleSMBIOS for the 10.5.3 beta update. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeekofComputers Posted April 1, 2008 Share Posted April 1, 2008 lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nano2nd Posted April 1, 2008 Share Posted April 1, 2008 Good April Fools. Still, stranger things have happened for real in the past: HP and Apple 2004 iPod partnership.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
f41qu3 Posted April 1, 2008 Share Posted April 1, 2008 good april fool Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mac_cute Posted April 1, 2008 Share Posted April 1, 2008 hehe, good examinating Mayby it's because HP include "G3" in his server name The best comment:the "G3"... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
apowerr Posted April 1, 2008 Share Posted April 1, 2008 If Apple were to do this, well, it would certainly be a step in the right direction! But I really doubt this will happen, as allowing people to sell other OS X products would severely impact their revenue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeezoflip Posted April 1, 2008 Share Posted April 1, 2008 april fools? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nomi81 Posted April 1, 2008 Share Posted April 1, 2008 Yeah i think best comment were "G3". I really liked the mk14 sense of humour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrian Fogge Posted April 2, 2008 Share Posted April 2, 2008 It's a April Fools... Sorry, boys. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S.SubZero Posted April 2, 2008 Share Posted April 2, 2008 FYI- I know it's a joke, but HP does use "G#" product revisions. Like they have a G2, G3, G4, G5 revision for various products. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted April 2, 2008 Share Posted April 2, 2008 It says "ProLiant DL140 G3 Server_Apple hardware=0" right? (P.S. I know this is April Fools but anyway) Well "Apple hardware=0" looks to me that it is implying that the ProLiant server is NOT Apple hardware Just being binary/boolean logical here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpeedfreaK Posted April 2, 2008 Share Posted April 2, 2008 It says "ProLiant DL140 G3 Server_Apple hardware=0" right? (P.S. I know this is April Fools but anyway) Well "Apple hardware=0" looks to me that it is implying that the ProLiant server is NOT Apple hardware Just being binary/boolean logical here and maybe hp servers are really non apple hardware! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrenbird Posted April 4, 2008 Share Posted April 4, 2008 Hmm.. My ROFLcopter goes soi soi soi soi soi! Nice try :hysterical: my friends and i actually did that with MS Sam at school and distributed it over the common hard drive. It spread pretty fast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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