Yep. The main differences between the Pentium M and the Core Solo, besides the socket, are that the latter is 65nm, has a faster FSB, and supports SSE3 instructions (crucial for Mac OS X).
Tiger didn’t need SSE3 did it? I remember seeing a fair amount of Tiger hackintoshs running on pre Core series machines. I have also booted a Leopard installer successfully on my aforementioned Dell i6000 with a Pentium M. I never got it to successfully install afterwords, but I believe I was like 16 at the time. It was like 2010 or something. I haven’t done it since then but I definitely remember booting a successful installer and thinking it was cool lol.
Also, they need to be 3.3V not the standard 5V...naturally, they are therefore more expensive!
Tiger itself does not, but Rosetta does. If you have a non-SSE3 CPU you have to use a modified kernel incorporating an SSE3 "emulator" or something like that.
...thanks to that SSE3 "emulator". SSE2 is mandatory though so anything older than e.g. Athlon 64, Pentium 4 or Pentium M is out.
The Pentium 4 (and its architecture) is pretty much a failure. "Slow" considering its high clock speeds, hot and power-hungry. I mean, a 3.8 GHz Pentium 4 is sometimes tied by a 2.4 GHz Athlon 64.
Would you believe I ran Windows Vista and later 7 on that old A22m of mine?
I did little research after reading what you posted yesterday and it looks like there were a few kernels for Tiger for SSE2 only CPUs. Possibly using an “emulator” for SSE3? Everything I read was just on the osx86 website through the web archive because of course those old pages were nowhere to be found.
I have to disagree 😉 TenFourFoxBoxes aplenty and Links2 on a Compaq NC2400 without Rosetta in sight....
Yep.
Who needs Rosetta? 😉 Adobe CS4, Final Cut Studio 2, iLife '08, iWork '09, Office 2008, Parallels Desktop 5, VMware Fusion 2 etc. are all native x86 and run great on Tiger.
Point then haha
The first Intel Macs were pushed out the door on/around January 10th, 2006 while Leopard was released on October 26th, 2007: more than 18 months later. There was plenty of time for x86 versions of apps to appear (some "big" titles like Adobe CS3 and MS Office 2008 were late to the party though), and they all ran on Tiger.
It's possible to make an installed copy of 10.6.8 run on a 2012 Ivy Bridge Mac.
It’s worth mentioning that while 10.6.8 runs on Ivy Bridge using that patched kernel, you’re missing out on quite a lot of stuff — most importantly graphics acceleration, but also Thunderbolt, USB 3.0 and maybe others.
One objective use case for Snow Leopard is… Rosetta. The fastest Intel Macs capable of running Snow Leopard run PPC software faster than the fastest PPC Mac.
I'd go back in a flash if there was a 100% contemporary browser - my daily driver is currently a 2010 Mac Mini Server running El Capitan off a couple of SSDs and it's the most loathsome OSX experience I've ever had - SD card socket works occasionally, USB accessories disappear or malfunction every day and there's a hard crash/total lock up at least once a week :/
I have tried that before but performance wasn't great...but it was mainly my OCD at having to have such a workaround 😉
Among my extensive experimentation with Zorin 15.3 Lite on my Core Duo A1181s, I went back to installing Snow Leopard just for a lark. I've been pleasantly surprised with how well InterWeb and ArcticFox work with Gmail, YouTube, Twitter, and Google Docs. Sadly, Dropbox doesn't work. But between IW and AF, I can do most of the basic stuff I need to do on the web. And performance on 10.6 is simply sublime. Snow Leopard really is one of the best OS releases Apple ever put out.
If modern web browser compatibility is what you crave, there's always installing Linux as your boot OS. 😀
It’s even bearable if the CPU is underclocked due to a missing battery on a MacBook. Try that on later versions!
