Apple Bootcamp in Reverse? Snow Leopard on Windows 7 PC?

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  1. kahanejosh

    kahanejosh What's a Dremel?

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    Hi

    I was wondering you can sort of do Bootcamp in reverse? :) Bootcamp lets you run Windows at full speed, no virtualisation slow downs or anything, with dual booting.

    Is it possible as I have a copy of Mac OS 10.6 Snow Leopard (being a mac guy) to do the same on a PC? So I want to run Mac OS X at full speed with the PC hardware beside my Windows partition.

    Or is it a complete hassle this way round? Shall I just keep my iMac and have it as well as my PC?

    Any help much appreciated, thanks.
     
  2. mansueto

    mansueto Too broke to mod

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    legally your not supposed to put mac on a windows pc apparently but look into something called hackintosh. If all your hardware is supported you can set up a dual boot config to be able to have both on a windows based pc. It really comes down to software support, I'm pretty sure you need to have an intel chipset and a graphics card that's supported by mac. Can't go into much detail as I'm not too familiar with it myself, had a friend set it up for me a year or 2 ago and eventually I just got rid of the mac part, but I remember it took a while to get it all running.
     
  3. wyx087

    wyx087 Homeworld 3 is happening!!

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    it takes a lot of playing around with kext (Hackintosh way of calling drivers) to get all aspect of the computer working. and don't expect support for all latest/greatest hardware on PC, it took Apple 1 full year to support my gtx260, and zero support for any dedicated sound card.

    Hackintosh, OSx86 are the keywords to use on the big G :)
     
  4. Lorquis

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