Zulu.Walker Posted March 2, 2007 Share Posted March 2, 2007 Sounds good, but not really feasible. It's prolly better for you to waste your time with hacking hardware that would eventually yield something useful. It's a novel idea, but I doubt everyone'll run to their iPods, erase everything, and try booting OSX in 25mins just to see it works. If it was me, I'd return its music functions 5mins after recording it working on video and bragging to my friends about it. The XBOX mod sounds like a better project to pursue, better to do it after warranty expires Much easier to code on similar hardware the OS runs on originally than to disassemble PPC/Intel code for use with ARM that has virtually no multimedia acceleration. My 2cents. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phee Nom Tracks Posted July 10, 2007 Share Posted July 10, 2007 wel instead of running osx on an ipod how bout the REAL osx on the iphone. wouldnt it be cool to use a REAL dock and REAL programs on your iphone? i mean its completely feasable seeing as the processor is right and the iphone has all the drivers in it. so theoretically we would be able to take the kexts or whatever ti uses. SO ... whos gunna crack it and let us make it a REAL OSXphone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
realfolkblues Posted October 30, 2007 Share Posted October 30, 2007 the closest thing you are gonna get is an ipod touch. Witch is acually running BSD (darwin?) with a low memory UI. The ipod touch is not running full OSX so put that out of your mind right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacTamer Posted March 18, 2008 Share Posted March 18, 2008 Well....its not a stupid idea, but no, it wont work. And never will unless apple releases an iPod with at least a 800mhz processor in it and at least 256 mb or ram. Which, i dont know why you would need that power for a portable music player, but w/e. The iPod touch has a 473 Mhz ARM CPU... It would still be hard as heck.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vbetts Posted March 18, 2008 Share Posted March 18, 2008 Other than the touch, why would want to? Even with the touch, you don't have to much room to do stuff on an os with it, even more when the screen is taken up by a touch keyboard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jadphoto14 Posted April 19, 2008 Share Posted April 19, 2008 Well, as an alternative, i'm running VNSea on my iPod Touch. Sure, its not actually OS X, but I can use my hackintosh fully from my touch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FujitsuOSX Posted May 5, 2008 Share Posted May 5, 2008 IPhone's system is almost made up of web technology and they can't run Mac apps so they are not really mac but editied Darwin + web technology Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted May 5, 2008 Share Posted May 5, 2008 The iPhone/iPod Touch does run a stripped down OS X...there, goal accomplished Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kdb424 Posted August 21, 2008 Share Posted August 21, 2008 It's MUCH easier to build a hackintosh and VNC that. Just hide the tower, and no keyboard mouse or screen. Just like a server. Ignore the hardware, but use at as you want. Dang. I might have to try that now! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
casee Posted August 21, 2008 Share Posted August 21, 2008 I know iPods can run OS X. http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?sto...050401064920219 But they'd suck since iPods have like 32MB of ram (Well the G1). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kdb424 Posted August 21, 2008 Share Posted August 21, 2008 I'm pretty sure that was a joke. Sorry about that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
recklessness Posted October 28, 2008 Share Posted October 28, 2008 An ipod could run a very stripped down version of OSX, however they do not (and with good reason) as i recall, rockbox and ipodlinux were both horribly slow. The ipod touch runs a heavily stripped down version of OSX over a half-functional ARM version of Darwin (which you could jailbreak and expand to a version with full BSD subsystem) and that is as close as we're going to get to running OSX on it. The user interface is WAY too heavy to run on that little ARM processor. It would be slow, it would stutter and eat up your battery in minutes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
link01 Posted November 11, 2008 Share Posted November 11, 2008 I hope I don't get flammed by this comment, but would it be possible to install OSX on an ipod, but to use it as a bootable external hard drive? I have an old ipod that's replaced by my iPhone. It would be cool to bring this back out into the sunlight and make it used for something other than gathering dust. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suprjacob Posted November 11, 2008 Share Posted November 11, 2008 I hope I don't get flammed by this comment, but would it be possible to install OSX on an ipod, but to use it as a bootable external hard drive? I have an old ipod that's replaced by my iPhone. It would be cool to bring this back out into the sunlight and make it used for something other than gathering dust. If you wish to destroy your iPod, yes. Use GParted or some partitioning utility to completely wipe it and put one huge FAT32 partition on. Then in OSX's Disk Utility, change it to HFS+. I dunno, I never tried it, mostly because I value my iPod Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
link01 Posted November 11, 2008 Share Posted November 11, 2008 If you wish to destroy your iPod, yes. Use GParted or some partitioning utility to completely wipe it and put one huge FAT32 partition on. Then in OSX's Disk Utility, change it to HFS+. I dunno, I never tried it, mostly because I value my iPod I don't mind. My ipod is a 10gb I had for years. It's done its time. But even so, how would this "destroy" it. Wouldn't all you have to do is resync it to itunes and all the stuff will be restored? or do you have to format it first. What is an ipod's native format? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suprjacob Posted November 12, 2008 Share Posted November 12, 2008 Whenever I look at my iPod in GParted, it shows up as a completely blank disc, all as 'unallocated space' (as in no partitioning). So, my hypothesis is that creating new partitions will destroy it. Will it? I don't know. I'm too scared to do try it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacMeGosh Posted December 31, 2008 Share Posted December 31, 2008 Have you tried it on another computer first? I'd think that something should at least show disk space... maybe try to use file recovery software and see if it'll show anything on the drive, cause if you partition it over, I'm sure it'll screw it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kdb424 Posted January 7, 2009 Share Posted January 7, 2009 I got this working with my Mac. Worked great. Slow as hell, but great! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dubblea13 Posted June 5, 2009 Share Posted June 5, 2009 i got my ipod to look like leopard, it looks the most similar at least. http://www.ipodwizard.net/showthread.php?t=36402 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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