Yeah, i felt the same way, until i have had one in front of me ;-)
I do all my dev still in windows, it is just in a window on a mac.
plus it is faster than any of my antiquated pc hardware.
I think that if you got a mac mini and ran headless (Roberts great
suggestion) it would save you a lot of time
because it comes as an airport wireless base built in. so if you
spent 10 hours (at $35/hr) mucking around and paid $150 for OSX you
have pretty much the cost of the mini.
Just another way of looking at things
Ben
On May 27, 2006, at 2:42 PM, Scott Cadillac wrote:
Thank you Ben and Dan, for your input.
This apparently does work, and the bit of research I have done
includes that my Dell laptop has a compatible processor. Throw in the
fact that VMWare provides a generic simulated hardware interface
environment and it can be done, with some effort.
If I can't get it going, I'll be looking for some Mac hardware,
preferably second-hand, that just needs enough power and recent OS
version to run the latest version of Safari for webclient testing
"only".
I have absolutely no plans to do anything else with it.
I love being a Microsoft technology developer, I make a great living
at it and have no plans to waste time toying with Linux or Mac
programming that lives outside a browser window.
If Microsoft ported Visual Studio to Mac, then I'd consider it as an
option - but like that'll ever happen ;-)
Thanks.
Scott Cadillac,
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http://scott.cadillac.bz
-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Johansen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, May 27, 2006 12:33 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Witango-Talk: [OT] Mac OS question
Hi,
There is a couple sites where hack have been down to run OSX on
Wintel machines, but i think they are being shot down by Apple.
(Understandably so).
I can say that the Mac Mini is worth its weight. 1 gig Ether, Port,
Built in Airport Wireless and Bluetooth this thing sets up very
easily into any environment.
I am using Microsoft USB keyboard and Mouse.
I tell you this Apple on Intel is turning heads.
I love working under windows XP while talking to Robert over
Bluetooth head set on Skype
XP on the Mac states this for computer
Genuine Intel(R) CPU
T2300 @ 1.66Ghz
851 Mhz, 600 MB or RAM
Ben
On May 27, 2006, at 3:58 AM, Dan Stein wrote:
I may be mistaken but you need a mac hardware ot do any of this. I
don't think you can get anything that will allow OSX to run on a
Wintel machine but I could be wrong.
As I have said before anyone on the list that want a Mac should
contact me I am an apple var and would be happy ot sell at cost to
the group. The best bet for waht Scott is doing is to get a Mac Mini
and jsut share monitor and keyoboard and mouse with you PC. The mini
is about the size of an external hard drive and will run you about
$600 with extra RAM but no Apple Care. A little more with the apple
Care.
---- <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi, late to this thread
I'm using a utility from parallels.com and I am running it on mac
mini duo-core.
from what ive seen and experienced for $40 buck is amazing
I am very happy with it
Ben
On May 26, 2006, at 7:17 AM, Jason Pamental wrote:
Daniel,
I know! (I'm waiting to be able to do Windows in a virtual machine
mode rather than with BootCamp so I can be working in both
Mac OS and
Windows without having to reboot. I just want to do it on nice Mac
hardware!)
Thanks - and you're right about 10.4 - I was assuming Scott meant he
was buying online and that's all he'd be able to buy from Apple now
anyway.
Jason
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On May 26, 2006, at 10:01 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Jason - he can run Windows in native Intel mode. VM's are not
longer needed :-)
Mac OS X: Only buy OS X 10.4. All older versions don't work with
the Intel Mac's (as I know).
rs
Daniel
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jason Pamental"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, May 26, 2006 3:49 PM
Subject: Re: Witango-Talk: [OT] Mac OS question
Scott,
There's only one version of the OS, so you're safe to buy the one
you see online. I didn't realize you could get it running that
way - let me know how it goes! (Although I'm waiting to go the
other way - get a new MacBook Pro and run Windows as a virtual
machine)
Jason
-----
Jason Pamental
Director of Web Services
North Sails
Office: 401.643.1415
Fax: 401.643.1420
Mobile: 401.743.4406
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On May 26, 2006, at 9:27 AM, Scott Cadillac wrote:
For those of you in the know,
I am considering an attempt to install Mac OS X as a VMWare
virtual machine, as a test environment for my apps with Safari
and other Mac-based browsers. There are several unofficial
instructions on how to do this, with a bit of searching.
My question is: Does the latest version of OS X automatically
support Intel, or do I need a special version?
http://www.apple.com/macosx/
When I click on the link to buy, the hardware requirements
simply says "PowerPC G5, G4 or G3 processor".
Any insight would be helpful, thanks.
Scott Cadillac,
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://scott.cadillac.bz
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