Comments on: Alleged Tiger86 Runs on Dell Laptop

By: chips can fetch tournament

chips can fetch tournament — Sun, 18 Jun 2006 20:00:10 +0000

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By: anon

anon — Mon, 20 Jun 2005 20:56:28 +0000

Come on it’s fake, he states that no apps work – well the developer machines ship with iLife already in Universal binaries and Rosetta would be working too.

By: Patrick Lacson

Patrick Lacson — Tue, 14 Jun 2005 16:27:23 +0000

You can have 768MB of RAM on a PC.

I haven’t been able to see the video, but the pictures look legit to me. I expect a followup that includes a nice HOWTO.

By: LarriveeJP

LarriveeJP — Tue, 14 Jun 2005 16:07:30 +0000

It might be video from the PowerBook, but it’s not the mini unless he Photoshopped the RAM specs as well.

I always thought x86 had to have matching RAM sticks? If so, 768 just won’t do. I could be way off here. Just a thought.

By: tigerpccompany

tigerpccompany — Tue, 14 Jun 2005 15:59:50 +0000

if you look in the back ground of the picture you can see a macmini running with no display it may be a possibility that they rewired the display of the dell to display that mac mini desktop and edited it of photoshop later

By: Tomasz

Tomasz — Tue, 14 Jun 2005 00:26:15 +0000

Yeah, it is fairly easy to spot my fake, but i only did it in 5 minutes.

Though you are right, the other one does look more legit and have now seen an extra picture I didn’t see till after my previous comments.

I just think it might be a bit too early for all this to show up. While those photo’s are nice and clear, the video is from far away.

Who knows, it might be legit – what I’m probably more surprised about is how well it works on different hardware.

Anyway, I should get to bed – it’s 1:25am for me.

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 14 Jun 2005 00:18:56 +0000

Yeah, but I still think the second video is legit. Also, its pretty easy to see that the photoshop you did is faked, the text is too dark.

By: Tomasz

Tomasz — Tue, 14 Jun 2005 00:15:47 +0000

What really would be more interesting to everyone I’m sure, is what we get to see when we click on More Info… in the About This Mac window.

If I can do this:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tomasz/19208457/
in 5 minutes, then it’s all too easy to fake.

By: Tomasz

Tomasz — Tue, 14 Jun 2005 00:01:31 +0000

This has also surfaced:
http://maconmac.bastix.net/intel.mov

As seen in http://forums.macnn.com/showthread.php?t=259848

As people say there though, they image does look skewed on the video.

I agree. The camera is absolutely still, which you need to keep still to pull this off if you were overlaying the image onto the video later.

By: Tomasz

Tomasz — Mon, 13 Jun 2005 23:39:00 +0000

And to save time for others, you can see a side by side comparison of my Mac’s About This Mac window and Steve Job’s Demo WWDC Intel Mac window here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tomasz/19204151/