On 03/03/2013 08:27 PM, Roger Eller wrote:
What is the performance like in a VM on old hardware? Wouldn't it be faster
if installed directly in a partition?
It runs really very well indeed for Livecode development.
I do nothing else whatsoever on the Faux Mac; all my graphic processing and
font development is done on the underlying UbuntuStudio.
The underlying machine has these specs:
Intel Core2 6300 @ 1.82 GHz 5.8 GB RAM
Hardware virtualisation is enabled in the BIOS.
The Mac OS 10.6.8 inside VMware has 3 GB RAM allotted to it, and its own
system specifications says that it is:
4.30 GHz Intel Core 2 Solo
Quite how it arrives at that bizarre 4.3 GHz escapes me.
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As to installing in a partition: I have tried that and, frankly found
those Hackintosh recipes
too much like hard work.
As I own a Mac OS 10.6 install DVD I felt no moral problem about
downloading a pre-installed
VMware image with 10.6 pre-installed, so saving myself an awful lot of
headaches.
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To be quite honest, I'm not just that sure that if I had a disposable
1,300 Euros I would bother
to spend it on a Mac; as Linux has come of age it seems that that sort
of money for a computer
is not really justified.
The ONLY software I have paid for in the last 10 years is Livecode and
about 3 system install disks
for Macintosh: Open Source software is now of such a high calibre I do
not require any other
commercial product.
The only reason I continue to use any form of modern Macintosh at all is
because, right now,
Mac standalones made on Windows or Linux don't function properly on
Macintosh computers.
--- something that I hope will be addressed with some sense of urgency
by RunRev ---
On Mar 3, 2013 1:22 PM, "Richmond" <[email protected]> wrote:
On 03/03/2013 07:44 PM, Roger Eller wrote:
I only suggest that they allow an unsupported fork because 'support' for
all that crazy PC hardware is the typical answer for why Apple doesn't do
this.
I don't believe Apple.
I think the reason they will not allow people to install Mac OS X on
non-Apple computers
is because Apple computers are very expensive, and once they allow people
to install their OS on
other hardware they fear people will stop buying their machines.
That is exactly why I bought Mac OS 10.6 and run it inside VMware Player
in a second hand DELL Optiplex 745
with 6 Gigs of RAM, which cost me, in total, 300 Euros . . .
( 100 for the computer, 100 for another 4 Gigs of RAM, 100 for the
wide-screen monitor )
. . . and exactly why Apple don't like people like me, because a
bottom-of-the range 21.5 inch iMac costs
about 1,269 Euros.
I don't expect an support from Apple; which is just as well, as they won't
give me anything except a boot
up the nether regions!
Richmond.
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