Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 5th Jan 2009 18:34 UTC, submitted by alcibiades
MacInTouch reviews the EFI-X kit, a pre-assembled computer equipped with the EFI-X module which allows you to boot Mac OS X on a non-Apple machine without having to resort to hacks. They conclude: "The EFI-X kit offers the ability to run Mac OS X Leopard without hacks, to run Windows without special Boot Camp drivers, and to run nearly any other personal computer operating system from Linux to Solaris to OpenVMS! It's not quite the seamless experience of Apple's Mac computers, but it comes darn close. Its quad-core 3.82-GHz Core 2 Quad, combined with a fast Nvidia 8800 GT video card and 10,000-RPM Western Digital Velociraptor hard drive, leaves even today's quad-core Mac Pro in the dust. For anyone but scientific and engineering users, the EFI-X kit offers even more real-world performance than Apple's high-end, eight-core Mac Pro costing over twice as much."
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2008-06-26
I've got one Efix device for a week. The thing allows you to install OSX and update it without hacks, but only if you stick with the narrow supported hardware list. There is a similar method that uses a USB stick called BOOT-132 but you need to install the correct kernel extensions for your hardware, which could be tricky (or impossible) to find. The only difficult thing that efix makes you to do is to configure the motherboard BIOS properly.