Boss man said I can get a pay rise when I learn more about macs as that is my weak point with IT etc, so I need a Mac. Now, I am not exactly loaded, so I can't afford to sell my soul for a Mac, but I hear you can use VMWare or something to run snow leopard. How would one acheive this? I know they need Intel chips (got my lovely i7 here) but do they also need nVidia cards? As I am still a red player at teh moment until I can afford a GTX460. Many thanks
Sorry, but doing such is against Apple MacOS License Agreement, therefor against the the forum rule.. especially, that right now, Apple is in a 'sue everyone with no mercy' mood. Use Google and look for: Hackintosh You should easily find many tutorials on the subject.
I'd have to agree with this, I know alot of people who tried but not many who succeeded. Btw, Mac's do use ATI cards as well as nVidia so you be able to get drivers. Good Luck with it anyway
On a side note though, if my boss wanted me to learn Mac's (I work in IT too) then I'd certainly be expecting him to get a Mac in for me to use. Surely your company must already have Mac's if he wants you to learn them?
From what I understand, since Apple started putting CPU identifiers in their OS's, installing and maintaining a 'Hackintosh' has become a lot harder. I don't know this for a fact, but it's what I've heard. Honestly, if you're learning OSX to improve your tech support skills, you really should go and buy the cheapest Mac Mini available (even if it's a last-gen second hand machine). If your first hand experience only comes from a Hackintosh, you won't be able to tell the difference between what is a Hackintosh problem or an OSX quirk. Poor analogy, but it would be similar to receiving driving lessons from a bad driver in a crappy car. Talk to your boss, as he/she should really be providing you with one or at least subsidising it. This may not be the same for GavX, but where I work, all employees are allowed to choose between a Windows machine or a Mac. If he works in tech support then he really should be very familiar with both environments.
Wow, how things change. Not that long ago i've seen an article about building a hackintosh on bit-tech
Like others have said google hackintosh. Although trying to do this on a laptop with no drivers in the file is a pain to get right.
also try google OSx86. 4870 should be supported, don't go out buying gtx460 yet. 48x0 is almost fully supported, since Apple were once selling 4850 for a while. (im also pretty happy myself as they just started selling 5850 on their Mac Pro) OSx86 website wiki has a HUGE database, look for your motherboard, graphics card on there, if someone has entered into it, you'll almost guarantee to get your hackint0sh to work.
I have done it on both my Dell Mini 9 and my desktop PC - both run flawlessly. It isn't clear whether this is explicitly illegal, but as already pointed out it certainly does violate Apple's EULA - either way, it's certainly a grey area. And it is worth noting that Apple has managed to litigate Psystar to death - a company that sold hackintoshes commercially. Google OSx86 and be prepared to do some thorough research/testing. You need a spare hard drive for testing - not a spare partition, a whole hard drive, 20gb at least. I'll let you know my email address if you want to know more. EDIT: That's not entirely accurate. I agree that it would be best to experience a "real" Mac, but if you have OSx86 set up properly then your PC is, for all intents and purposes, a "real" Mac. The experience is exactly the same - in many cases the hardware is identical, and therefore the support within the OS/drivers is utterly identical.
