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EFiX: OSx86 gone commercial?

apowerr

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efi-x.com, last updated June 9th, claims to offer the ability to install OS 10 on a non mac with the retail disc. The EFiX website states:

EFiX is the best solution for installing and using Mac OS X on your PC.

It allows its user to install Mac OS X straight from the original DVD without having to worry about patches,

replacing files and anything like that.

That means you can buy a regular PC, Mac OS X and EFiX and enjoy what the Mac users have always enjoyed:

unmodified Mac OS X on your computer, safe, easy and fast, exactly the way it should be.

 

The development of EFiX took a lot of time.

During the development phase, we had to deal with various problems, including sabotage.

This process also involved testing, which has been conducted for the last 6 months in production environments.

Industry leading professionals(who work for TV stations, recording studios and many others) rely on EFiX and Mac OS X running on standard PC hardware to get their tasks done.

 

EFiX is in the final testing phase.

All the testing has went far better than what we expected and the testers have given positive feedback.

 

We have planned to release it on 23rd of June, 2008. More information will be added soon.

Longtime OSx86 contributor netkas has posted EFiX in action on his blog. According to netkas, EFiX is hardware which plugs into your USB port.

 

As the June 23rd release approaches, many questions about EFiX remain unanswered:

-Is it an EFI emulator like PC_EFI or Chameleon?

-Is the USB device required every time you boot or just during installation?

-While this device may allow OS 10 to be installed, won't the driver situation be just like that of the OSx86 project?

-How will Apple respond to this?

-Will EFiX's EFI implementation be usable on traditional OSx86 DVDs?

 

Something of note is the EFiX contact page:

International dealers:

(If you can not find dealers in your region please contact us)

Germany

Россия

Украина

Taiwan R.O.C.

P.R.China

Japan

Korea

Notice here that the United States, along with many other countries are ignored. Also, netkas who has a sample of the device, stated:

they don't plan to sell it in US.

 

So, forget about dmcs in this case.

Thoughts?

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stellarola

I would suggest to anyone who's looking for a motherboard to run with osx86 to get a mobo that has ALC889A or ALC885 audio onboard. They both will work natively when EFI-X comes out.

 

-Stell

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~pcwiz
you could also make this on any pci card with an option rom, just highjack the boot process and make it run your code.

 

Bring on the "run OS X on a PC" PCI cards :P

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DOCa Cola
All you guys might be wrong it might be some actual hardware EFI you need instead of software who knows.

yea, that *would* be great, but it is just some software as i already said. don't expect wonders. it might be a great piece of software, but it is never some magic hardware. the 'locks' in os x are software too, i am no expert but this problem could be solved with some emulation layer or virtualization that is achieved with that loader we see in the video. quite similar what we have already but maybe more advanced, i don't know...

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chick

Could it be just a bootable thumb drive with PC-EFI'ed darwin bootloader installed that boots a mach_kernel from the DVD or HD ?

 

I thought it was already possible to do this.

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Aggg45

okey dokey....

 

Usb comes out which is useful for the people who actually own a legit disc (me!) whichl installs OSX and the future updates, it it will not fix drivers issues which I presume

 

Apple may have slight problems here if the average joe can buy a pc and gets this fickle USB a leopard disc and be able to do this, Apple will then have to pull the plug and do either one of these things

 

- bring the lawyers round for tea

- mac future updates not compatible with the usb (Efix has not stated if the usb will be updated for future updates that may occur if this happens)

- apple finally gives in and retails leopard for pc's at 3x the original price

 

 

 

PS: TBH I don't mind a usb sticking out of my computer for mac

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~pcwiz
Could it be just a bootable thumb drive with PC-EFI'ed darwin bootloader installed that boots a mach_kernel from the DVD or HD ?

 

I thought it was already possible to do this.

 

No, it couldn't be, because even with PC_EFI or Chameleon (another fake EFI implementation), those both cannot boot vanilla retail DVDs and installs can't survive a vanilla 10.5.3 update even with PC_EFI. So whether it be software or hardware that they have in that dongle. its something unique that we haven't seen before.

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jotokun

I quite frankly dont care about what it is or what it does, since it doesnt look like it'll ever hit US and UK outside of ebay. I am concerned, however, about people buying it and having it not work, and then EFiX turns them over to us for support. I dont want a group of noobs overrunning the forums. Fortenetly, that may be why they arent shipping to the US :)

 

In any event, I am interested in how this turns out. If it survives the next update(since chances are apple will target it in that one), then I might get one on ebay.

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~pcwiz

Like it has been said a few times before, if this is software based, even if it does have protection, it will be imaged and distributed over the net so anyone can write the image to an ordinary thumb drive and then use that as EFI-X. Then everyone around the world gets it.

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Dr. Dankenstein
Bring on the "run OS X on a PC" PCI cards :wacko:

 

this is why im working on a sata /ide host controller card with an efi emulator built in. still drafting the design and still looking for some help though...

 

Dr. D

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~pcwiz
this is why im working on a sata /ide host controller card with an efi emulator built in. still drafting the design and still looking for some help though...

 

Dr. D

 

Sweet! Much more convenient than a USB dongle you have to plug in every time :)

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