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EFiX: OSx86 gone commercial?

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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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MacThomas

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 :)

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br0adband

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...

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Mebster
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. :)

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nameless2k
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 :P

 

kd rgds, nl2k

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webterractive

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.

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ImDude

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

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teknojunkie

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

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Hyper X

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.

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curlyboy

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 ??

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teknojunkie

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.

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ImDude

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

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mrbonkers

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.

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teknojunkie
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.

 

  1. 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.
  2. netkas June 12th, 2008 | 5:54 pm SG, there is no passing rd= to kernel, believe me icon_wink_anim.gif
     
    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.

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JaccoH

I sent them a mail and got this reply... interesting bit on laptops.

Dear Jacco Hoeve,

 

Hi, Whats the price?

No info availible yet.

 

Is there a dealer for The Netherlands?

Planed - yes , but dont have any rightnow.

 

Do you plan on making a laptop version?

Not only plan, but already exist one, but it will not be published on June 23.

 

 

 

Best Regards

 

Wilhelm von Vnukov

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