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30th December 2011, 06:06 | #1 |
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Mac OS for Windows
OK. I'm pretty much a die-hard windows user. While I'm happy with that, I've always wanted to an extended playaround with a Mac. The only way I would consider buying a Mac would be after an oppertunity to mess with one for a bit in the privacy of my own home.
I've been playing around with VirtualBox for the last couple of days. It allows you to create virtual machines with different operating systems on your computer. It suddenly occured to me that I could create a virtual Mac on my windows PC. I want to give it a try but I know zero about the different OSs availble for the Mac. So I've got a couple of questions. 1. Can I purchase a complete Mac OS off the shelf? I've had a look around the Apple websites but can't seem to find full OS downloads - just upgrades to Snow Leopard. 2. If I can find a full Mac OS which one should I pick - presuming of course there is a choice? 3. If I try to install a Mac OS on a virtual machine - am I likely to be stumped by issues like not being able to register it??? 4. Anything else you can think of. |
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31st December 2011, 00:45 | #3 |
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I purchased the latest OSX from ebay and slapped it into VMWare workstation. After a bit of tweaking it was running just fine. Sure, obviously, it breaks a few or the apple rules but that's the way everything works with Apple. The inifo required to get OSX running under VMWorkstation is a google/bing search from your finger tips.
P.s. Most mac owners would have updated their OS via the App store so there won't be a great deal of dvds around for that version of the OS. |
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Please post you computer configuration, you need a really strong cpu to run osx, and why donn't you try installing osx on a seperate partition with iBoot, i think that is more easy and stable than virtual machine, it sure is difficult, I succeded only once, searh iBoot in google, there are many tutorials. Good luck!
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