I was so excited to hear that there is finally an option to install Apple® Mac OSX™ legally and without ant hacks on a compatible hardware PCs.
What is EFI-X™?
EFI-X is a revolutionary hardware device (USB dongle) that will give any PC user, that opportunity to run a Mac OSX Leopard operating system on a hardware PC with an Intel processor. As for now the EFIX device does not have support for AMD systems.
The best thing about EFI-X , is that you don’t need to install any drivers or other applications with EFI-X™ to be able to work with
Apple's OS X, you will only need to update the firmware when needed, and that’s will be easy to do, just by downloading the firmware from EFi-X website.
So as you can see, running Mac OSX on the PC will become a reality pretty soon,
as those OSX on PC EFiX USB dongles are being shipped as we speak. I was waiting to a PC on Mac solution for more then 5 years, and finally the solution is here
EFI-X™ R&D team are planning to release the notebook version of EFI-X™ probably in the near future. Another thing that is important in terms of protection, the EFi-X device is not based on the pendrive or flash memory chips, so people cannot copy the the files onto another USB device.
For PC users who want to have two operating systems installed, including Linux, Windows Vista or Windows XP, can use the EFI-X™ Interactive Boot Selector that will give them a choice between the installed operating systems on which they can choose from.
On EFi-X website you can see the Hardware compatibility list of supported hardware, that includes Intel processors (Core™2, Pentium® dual-core, Celeron®, Intel® Xeon™ , Supported Nvidia Geforce and ATI videos cards and other supported hardware components).
One guy installed Leopard on his PC and turn his gaming PC into a Mac Pro over
his weekend. He said that the installation went prefectly smooth. After he
installed EFiX, he downloaded all the updates straight from Apple. So no hacked
patch or Hackintosh is needed anymore. He was so happy that his End-User gaming
machine ran all applications and games like a real Mac Pro.
To understand better on EFi-X technology, visit their webite EFi-X Home Page.
This is a videos of the guy who used EFiX Dongle to transform PC to Mac. You can see the Multi Boot operating system selection and how smooth the installation of Mac OSX Leopard, and the update to 10.5.2 from Apple's
website is done quickly and without any errors what so ever. The EFi-X USB
dongle is connected to the the motherboard inside the case.
Another YouTube video of the EFiX product Review. You can see how small the EFi-X is:
As you can see from those EFiX installation videos, that installing Mac OS X Leopard and also updating the operating system is a breeze. Many people reporting great success, after following the installation Hardware support guidelines.
This guy shows us how fast it taked to load (Boot time) OSX os his slightly overcloked E8400 based computer, for people how are interested to know the capabilities and speed of operation of EFi-X on this system:
This video shows you a success installation of OSX on a PC of a very happy
customer of EFi-X USB Dongle. If even bought an Apple keyboard to celebrate his
new Mac Pro like computer. After reading an Interview with the founder of EFiX,
we realize that this amazing new tech was made to target the PC enthusiast
market, those PC guys who buy High End expensive configured PC hardware parts.
An because those guys who do overclocking and use water cooling, they won't
replace their PC with a Mac, so giving them the ability to change to a 'better'
operating system, if they would like to, and keep their expensive PC hardware as
it is.
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with EFi-X website.