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As soon as the first copy of Mac OS X was leaked to the public I decided to give it a try. I was lucky because my own hardware specs are very similar to the Dev machines that apple leased out with the exception of SSE3. Shortly after release the hacker Maxxuss hacked the release to let SSE2 only machines run rosetta. That version of OS X for intel, 10.4.1, ran very smoothly and was quiet stable with very few exceptions. I could run office programs and photoshop without difficulty. What really bothered me was lack of NVidia drivers, lack of dual monitor support and not be able to sleep my computer.

I ran 10.4.1 almost exclusively, only rebooting to windows for dvd shrink. More recently a new release was leaked 8f1111 (there was a fw before it that I ignored), which was rumored to have better ATI drivers (doesn't help me), dual support and other great features. I had to replace my hard drive anyways, so I decided to try the latest leak and see if I could get more stuff working. These are my experiences documented here to hopefully help other 0sx86 users out.