Wouldn't do it...I find the Mac OS very limiting, I'm used to how the PC works and how you can alter things...
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11th April 2010, 05:03 #1ELITE
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11th April 2010, 22:24 #2Average
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I have hackintosh running on VMware fusion, but it rarely comes in handy...
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12th April 2010, 04:44 #3
I thought about running OSX on my new machine, but havn't got round to trying yet. I'm not sure if all my hardware is compatible.
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12th April 2010, 16:16 #4Retro Addict Administrator
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Intel CPU, so that will make it easier. Looking through a lot of the hacks and patches to make it work, it seems a lot of hardware combinations can be made to work. However the newest OSX doesn't seem to work as easily as the last.
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12th April 2010, 19:32 #5Harmless
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I tried getting snow leopard running and it proved to be to much trouble, but leopard runs great and you can multi boot with windows or linux so you are not tied to one os.
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13th April 2010, 11:01 #6Retro Addict Administrator
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VMware fusion? That is a Mac OSX virtulisation emulator, so are you in fact running Windows on your Mac? Not OSX on a PC?
Originally Posted by Vangar
But anyway, I hadn't thought of installing OSX on a virtual machine, as I was considering setting it up as a dual boot setup on an Intel PC, but it would be a nicer solution to do this.
I've had the PPC versions of OSX running fine using PearPC emulation in the past, and I think for the playing around I would only need OSX for, a virtual machine setup would be ideal.
Whilst OSX is still quite a nice OS in its own right, I also find it quite limiting and restrictive compared to Windows, especially Vista/Win7. Originally Posted by Submeg
But, also as you say, you are used to how Windows works, so OSX will always feel a little alien in the way it does things. It just depends on what you have grown up with, or used for years.
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13th April 2010, 13:08 #7Retro Addict Administrator
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I've just been reading about people managing to installed OSX 10.6 using VMWARE7, so I'm very interesting in playing around with this idea.
One article discussing this with a short guide is here. But there are many more also exploring it.
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13th April 2010, 14:58 #8I will remember that you said that. Originally Posted by Harrison
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13th April 2010, 15:29 #9Retro Addict Administrator
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Quote taken completely out of context there Steve!
I did go on to say it is limiting and restrictive, and stand by that.
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I have a Hackintosh at the moment, but it doesn't like some of the hardware I have. For one, it doesn't support IDE/ATAPI optical drives (CD/DVD/BluRay) but all my SATA ports are used up with hard drives!
Any ideas of a way around this?
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