ZDNet has written a review of Mac OS X for the x86 platform. Bootleg copies of this developing operating system have been available for some time but few are willing to takes the risk.

This development coincides with the choice from Apple to move to Intel processors. What's really special here is that Apple is developing the OS to run only on Apple hardware. They wouldn't want companies like Dell and Gateway to be able to sell machines with Mac OS X; Apple relies on sales of both hardware and software to survive and doesn't want to lose the pricing standard they've set. That means that ZDNet had to use a "modification" to install on their x86 machine. Translation? This is essentially illegal.

So place your bets as to whether or not there'll be a law suit. My money is on no, because this review is pretty shining.

A quick summary of the review will tell you that the OS itself performs pretty much on par with Windows XP, but the applications need a lot of work. This comes as no surprise since the Applications couldn't properly be tested without an OS that's mostly complete. Judging by this review, we now have an OS that's mostly complete and is at the stage of adding more drivers and squashing bugs. Application developers should now be pretty free to test. Sounds like things are moving along quite nicely.