martymas Posted July 28, 2005 Report Share Posted July 28, 2005 hi team a freind has gone to another country to live and has given me a mac instalation disk i have never come in contact with a mac OS or products before will it dual boot with win xp.what is required as far as registration number what is required as far as hadware drivers is concerned i would appreciate any in put as far as mac is concernedthanks marty Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jcl Posted July 29, 2005 Report Share Posted July 29, 2005 You'd need a Mac, Mac clone, or Mac emulator -- it won't run on IBM PC-compatibles. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
martymas Posted July 29, 2005 Author Report Share Posted July 29, 2005 hi jclnot quite sure what you mean will it not run on an ordinary home built compt with microsoft drivers. ectas im a stranger to mac the language needs to be defined for me thanks marty Quote Link to post Share on other sites
macmarauder Posted July 29, 2005 Report Share Posted July 29, 2005 yep it's made specifically to run only on mac hardware or mac clone hardware or you can run an emulator but i wouldn't recommend that. they really really don't want you to run it on just any computer. that's what the whole PC Mac debate is really about. Not which is better but the control of hardware vrs control of software. that the biggest reason why macs are more reliable, they don't have to build support for a ton of hardware since you can only run it on theirs. like i've said before, advantages and disadvantages to such control. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
martymas Posted July 29, 2005 Author Report Share Posted July 29, 2005 yep it's made specifically to run only on mac hardware or mac clone hardware or you can run an emulator but i wouldn't recommend that. they really really don't want you to run it on just any computer. that's what the whole PC Mac debate is really about. Not which is better but the control of hardware vrs control of software. that the biggest reason why macs are more reliable, they don't have to build support for a ton of hardware since you can only run it on theirs. like i've said before, advantages and disadvantages to such control.<{POST_SNAPBACK}>ok thanks for your info i will probably forget about it un less i get a mac systhanks again marty Quote Link to post Share on other sites
macmarauder Posted July 29, 2005 Report Share Posted July 29, 2005 yeah i know. they very easily could make it so that OS X would run on a PC but they want to control the hardware and make more money. HEY don't do that! especially since MACs aren't mostly memory based systems anymore. they're becoming just high end PCs. which makes the whole MAC vs. PC argument funny since by the time they start using Intels you might as well call them the other computing white meat. HEY stop that! when that happens the only real difference is which natural OS it has. did you smack me in the back of the head? don't kill the messenger. wait it was a lurker, wasn't it? who done it? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
murtu52 Posted July 31, 2005 Report Share Posted July 31, 2005 Just wondering, can Mac OS run on VMware? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jcl Posted July 31, 2005 Report Share Posted July 31, 2005 Just wondering, can Mac OS run on VMware?<{POST_SNAPBACK}>Not unless VMware sneaked a Mac emulator into their products when I wasn't looking. AFAIK PearPC and (maybe) SheepShaver are the only x86 PowerMac emulators available. There are also a few M68k Mac emulators out there. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
martymas Posted August 1, 2005 Author Report Share Posted August 1, 2005 thanks jcl ive just read through your mac links and it is interesting stuff but i think ile forget it i need a mac machine to run it and i cant afford another i have two already so that is my lot thnks macmarauderhas some interesting observations so i may stick with win.marty Quote Link to post Share on other sites
hitest Posted August 1, 2005 Report Share Posted August 1, 2005 Interesting to note that in the not too distant future Steve Jobs has announced that PCs will be able to run OS X. Now, that would be cool. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
martymas Posted August 1, 2005 Author Report Share Posted August 1, 2005 Interesting to note that in the not too distant future Steve Jobs has announced that PCs will be able to run OS X. Now, that would be cool.<{POST_SNAPBACK}>in that case ile hold on to this diskthanks marty Quote Link to post Share on other sites
murtu52 Posted August 1, 2005 Report Share Posted August 1, 2005 Just wondering, can Mac OS run on VMware?<{POST_SNAPBACK}>Not unless VMware sneaked a Mac emulator into their products when I wasn't looking. AFAIK PearPC and (maybe) SheepShaver are the only x86 PowerMac emulators available. There are also a few M68k Mac emulators out there.<{POST_SNAPBACK}>I see....however, all x86 mac emulators run quite slow, but i guess it is a small price to pay....Perhaps I'll just pick up a mac mini when i want to Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TheLetterK Posted August 16, 2005 Report Share Posted August 16, 2005 Just wondering, can Mac OS run on VMware?<{POST_SNAPBACK}>Not unless VMware sneaked a Mac emulator into their products when I wasn't looking. AFAIK PearPC and (maybe) SheepShaver are the only x86 PowerMac emulators available. There are also a few M68k Mac emulators out there.<{POST_SNAPBACK}>Sheepshaver doesn't support OS X. OS 8 and OS 9 only. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TheLetterK Posted August 16, 2005 Report Share Posted August 16, 2005 Interesting to note that in the not too distant future Steve Jobs has announced that PCs will be able to run OS X. Now, that would be cool.<{POST_SNAPBACK}>in that case ile hold on to this diskthanks marty<{POST_SNAPBACK}>No point. You'll need an x86 version (it's actually a 'fat binary' version, but that's neither here nor there), and you don't have one unless you downloaded it or rented a DTK. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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