Original URL: http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/01/02/ebay_osx_booting_dell/
A UK-based eBayer last week offered for sale a Dell Inspiron 6000 notebook with a difference - this one booted into Apple's Mac OS X operating system, with Windows XP on board as an alternative.
It's all a little bit iffy, of course, since Apple doesn't permit the installation and usage of its software on machines other than its own, but it'll save the buyer from searching Google for the hacks required to get OS X running on a generic PC.
(http://regmedia.co.uk/2007/01/02/dell_osx_1.jpg)
Click for full-size image
According to the seller, the Inspiron "boots strait [sic] into Mac... because this specific Inspiron model has the same configuration as a Mac Mini and so with a bit of tweaking to make the BIOS reed [sic] the same as the Mac this installs".
The Mac OS is installed on a 45GB partition - the rest of the Inspiron's 60GB hard drive is dedicated to Windows. The seller bundled a stack of Mac software, complete with original discs for re-installation.
The dual-boot laptop fetched £378 in the end, less than the buy-now price of £425. ®
Branscombe shipwreck: eBay flogfest begins (23 January 2007)
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/23/branscombe_ebay/
Month of Apple Bugs scheme yields first fixes (5 January 2007)
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/01/05/apple_fixes_project/
HP leads laptop league (3 January 2007)
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/01/03/ds_laptop_stats/
HP leads laptop league (3 January 2007)
http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2007/01/03/laptop_figures_displaysearch/
eBay cross verification bug (2 January 2007)
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/02/ebay_bug/
Planning to eBay those unwanted Xmas gifts? Think again (19 December 2006)
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/19/ebay_unwanted_gifts/
Man boots Mac OS X on Asus UMPC, shoots video (19 December 2006)
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/12/19/umpc_boots_osx/
eBayer offers 60GB PS3 for less than a dollar (24 November 2006)
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/11/24/ps3_offered_on_ebay_for_99c/
Linux-running PS3 offered on eBay (20 November 2006)
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/11/20/linux_ps3_offered_on_ebay/
eBayer bids $89m for PS3 (17 November 2006)
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/11/17/ebayer_bids_89m_for_ps3/
Mac OS X 10.4.8 runs on any PC... (25 October 2006)
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/10/25/osx_generic_intel/
Patch posted to run Mac OS X 10.4.4 on 'generic PC' (15 February 2006)
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/02/15/macosx_intel_generic_pc_patch/