On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 9:59 AM, Amy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In [email protected], "Haykel BEN JEMIA" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > One point though speaks for Mac and it's the fact that you can't > run OS X in > > any virtual machine. So if you develop for OS X, you have to buy a > Mac. > > My husband's Dell dual-boots to Mac... >
That's typically called a "Hackintosh", I think named so by the guys that first achieved such because of the amount of fiddling with the standard Apple install package to get it to install on non-Apple hardware. I've never worked with such an install but my understanding is that you have to be careful with software updates because you're playing in areas of the system that Apple likes to think of as under their control, so an update may disable the machine. Not sure how stable it is. I'm tempted by that from time to time as I pine for a new Macbook or MacBook Pro to replace my battered-and-dented-but-still-working PowerBook. But so far I'm still saving my pennies. -- Howard Fore, [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The universe tends toward maximum irony. Don't push it." - Jeff Atwood
