Dopo pochissimi giorni dal rilascio dei nuovi processori Intel Sandy Bridge, gli hacker hanno già testato Mac OS X con le nuove CPU.
Intel ha introdotto, questa settimana, 29 nuove CPU Sandy Bridge e ne ho già parlato in questo post. Ma gli hacker non hanno aspettato molto tempo e hanno già provato ad installare il sistema operativo Apple “Snow Leopard” con i nuovi chip Intel. I risultati sono soddisfacenti, e gli smanettoni hanno reso disponibili le istruzioni per l’installazione (qui), ma ammettono che non è consigliabile per un utilizzo a lungo termine.Steve non sarà molto felice, anche perchè come ci rivela il suo amico Wozniak, non è mai stato un amante dell’hack.
[via]t had to happen — Intel introduced its Sandy Bridge processor this week and already intrepid Mac OS X hackers have managed to install Apple’s operating system on Intel’s new chip.
Good news that it can be done must be tempered with reports as to how complex it is: it really is: indeed, it’s so complex developers at the tonymacx86 Blog, have published instructions. And these involve a patched kernel and the results? Well, they “aren’t recommended for long-term use.”
Take a look at the instructions and consider the fine and long tradition of Mac hacking. Steve Jobs doesn’t like it, so no surprises then that John Draper (aka. Captain Crunch, the man who introduced Steves Wozniak and Jobs to the gentle arts of phone phreaking) says Jobs wasn’t much of a hacker.
His words:
Who was the better student in phone phreaking skills, Steve Jobs or Steve Wozniak?
John Draper: Wozniak – Job’s was not interested in hacking at all.