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If Mac OS X will run natively on the x86 platform, it is believed that the need for PearPC's emulation will eventually die.

I believe that this comment should be removed. It is not an objective fact, but a personal opinion by the author. Bheron

Adding on to the comment given

It's true that CherryOS is an inferior product but first thing's first: This is Wikipedia. There should be level-headed people giving factual as well as unbiased information. This article should be cleaned up.

Ok. I re-worded it to sound better. --M1ss1ontom a rs2k4 ^{(T | C | @)} 04:37, 25 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Out of date?

Quoth the article
"PearPC is currently in development and is advancing quickly in speed, stability and features. It is hoped to achieve the goal of 1/10 host speed relatively soon. Individuals are making builds with more features like native CD-ROM support and even progress emulating sound has begun. Popular PearPC sites that provide builds also include Altivec support for PowerPC G4 processors. Support for graphics cards acceleration is in progress, which in theory should provide a major performance boost due to OS X's hardware-accelerated GUI known as Quartz-Extreme"
I think that entire paragraph is vaporware. I haven't seen any development to pearpc for about 1/2 year. I'd love to be proven wrong though :/

Ok, maybe not advancing quickly... but it is still in development, it hasn't died entirely. Native CD-ROM support for Windows is already there, emulating sound work went somewhere for awhile, but hit a snag, and isn't being developed anymore. Altivec, and PowerPC G4 support is now folded into the main branch, support for graphics card acceleration is actually under slow progress. I can't really correct this information, as it likely counts as Original Research --Puellanivis 06:22, 15 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Legal implication

I think it might be good to include a small statement explaining that using this to run the MacOS on non-Apple hardware is prohibited by the MacOS EULA.71.199.128.182

This isn't very notable, as Apple never contacted any of the main developers regarding PearPC allowing people to run Mac OSX on non-Apple hardware, and some Apple employees were able to receive permission to contribute important fixes to PearPC. --Puellanivis 16:17, 6 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hit by a train

If I recall there was a newer beta release at one point, but then the creator of PearPC was hit by a train? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.173.15.10 (talk) 15:18, 8 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

No, there wasn't an earlier beta release. The "creator" of PearPC, Sebastian Biallis, was not hit by a train. Rather, Stefan Weyergraf, who was responsible for some major parts was the one hit by a train. According to Sebastian, he wrote about 90% of the code that was released. Stefan also contributed a lot of the artwork, for instance the logo. --Puellanivis (talk) 18:15, 8 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

This article is inconsistent and incorrect

VMWare Fusion is a windows emulator on a mac and pearPC is (was) a Mac emulator on a windows. Therefore, that is not a replacement. Also, the intro is inconsistent and there are many other small problems in the text. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.193.179.203 (talk) 18:28, 10 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Feel free to fix the article, rather than simply complain about it. :) --Puellanivis (talk) 21:16, 10 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]