Mac on PC systems

I have been trying to get mac os 10 to run on the pc, and have been successful, though not using a straight leopard distribution from Apple.

It seems that apple has code in certain programs that checks for intel chips and makes sure that the system is indeed an apple system or it'll commit suicide.

Fortunately there is a movement (called hackintosh among others) that has worked on the kernel and other parts so it can work on non-apple systems (oh the heresy). Drawin, the kernel much to Apple's credit is open-sourced, though higher level technologies such as cocoa, quicktime, carbon, and quartz (things pertaining to the user interface, application services etc) have not.

As such, much like linux there are several different 'distributions' that contains drivers, kernels etc that support different versions of the os from 10.5.2 all to way to 10.5.5, and I think 10.5.6 is soon to be here.

The purpose of all this though was to do iphone development, for which the sdk is only available on the mac-os.

To this end, it has been somewhat successful. I have been able to get 10.5.4 to load, while 10.5.5 but there are issues when I try to compile code. If I get serious about the iphone development, I'll have to see about getting a real mac.