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OS X To Come Preinstalled on Hewlett-Packard Servers?

Numberzz

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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?

 

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The string was found at offset 292D, also notice the « Apple Hardware=0 » string

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rhyguy

rhyguy 0

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mabye apple are going to buy computers of hp and applify them

Krazubu

Krazubu 13

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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.

zik_man

zik_man 0

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hehe, good examinating ;) Mayby it's because HP include "G3" in his server name :)

mk14

mk14 0

Posted

April Fools joke?!

khaled_acmilan

khaled_acmilan 0

Posted

apple will be ever produce it's hardware no way to stop production of any Mac to any other company.

 

All in my opinion.:(

lulu123

lulu123 0

Posted

haha...dont fool us

westwaerts

westwaerts 6

Posted

nice try, happy easter, bunny.

Nitramusa

Nitramusa 0

Posted

Hmm.. My ROFLcopter goes soi soi soi soi soi!

 

Nice try :D

Bearcat

Bearcat 1

Posted

It's a fake,

 

I can confirm that the string is NOT present in AppleSMBIOS for the 10.5.3 beta update.

f41qu3

f41qu3 8

Posted

good april fool :D

mac_cute

mac_cute 1

Posted

hehe, good examinating :D Mayby it's because HP include "G3" in his server name :)

 

The best comment:the "G3"... :P

apowerr

apowerr 9

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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.

nomi81

nomi81 0

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Yeah i think best comment were "G3". I really liked the mk14 sense of humour.

Adrian Fogge

Adrian Fogge 0

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It's a April Fools...

 

Sorry, boys.

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S.SubZero

S.SubZero 0

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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.

~pcwiz

~pcwiz 6

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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 :D Just being binary/boolean logical here :)

SpeedfreaK

SpeedfreaK 0

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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 :P Just being binary/boolean logical here ;)

 

and maybe hp servers are really non apple hardware!

Wrenbird

Wrenbird 0

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Hmm.. My ROFLcopter goes soi soi soi soi soi!

 

Nice try :)

:):hysterical: :hysterical: :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.


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