MAC on a PC?
By getpaidsz
@getpaidsz (180)
Italy
January 12, 2010 12:46pm CST
One of my friends asked me if its possible to install MAC on his laptop? I immediately found out that he means linux not MAC. But its a question for myself. Is it possible to install MAC on a PC or laptop? Or the hardware is different and it could not be used on an Intel based computer? Any idea?
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@xfahctor (14118)
• Lancaster, New Hampshire
12 Jan 10
It is, but you need emulation software to do it. Emulation software, especialy on a PC is often very slow and buggy. You can try it but I can't guaranty how well it will run. I think your probably better off just getting a Mac. Mac also has "virtual PC" available for it, which acts like a host for windows operating systems, it isn't really emulation and it runs xp on a Mac a lot better than any Mac emulator on a PS.
@getpaidsz (180)
• Italy
12 Jan 10
Thank you xfahctor. So there is no way to install them side by side? like when we install linux together with windows on a PC?
I already know about the emulators. They may be useful in some situations. But as you truly said it is not a good option and I don't like it.
Happy mylotting!
@xfahctor (14118)
• Lancaster, New Hampshire
12 Jan 10
No, I don't think so. even though the newer Mac OS's are based on a unix core, like linux, which is Intel compatible, the architecture is still pretty different....I think there might be a version of OS X that is specificly intel based...but I'm not sure just HOW intell based it is.
@hexeduser22 (7253)
• Philippines
14 Jan 10
This is called hackintosh...Mac on a windows based PC. There are several tutorials in the net with regards to this...There are issues though about sound cards and other stuffs not working but in every release they provide a fix. I once dual boot on mac and xp in my laptop and it was good. Virus is not a problem in Mac or should I say Hackintosh
