Mac OS X on a PC?

I know it's possible to install Windows on a Mac, but is it possible to install OS X on a PC? The reason is, I like OS X and wouldn't mind being able to boot it on my PC (alongside Windows 7 of course), but there is no way I would ever buy a Mac. They are far too expensive for the technology you get.

You can but I'm not sure if you can do both on the harddrive, but I do know that alot of people have a seperate harddrive for each and when they boot there computer they just choose which harddrive (operating system) to run

Yeah that's what I was going to do, just use separate hard drives. I seem to remember a Mac savvy friend of mine saying something about how it had to be an Intel processor to run OS X. Is that true?

Yeah that's what I was going to do, just use separate hard drives. I seem to remember a Mac savvy friend of mine saying something about how it had to be an Intel processor to run OS X. Is that true?

saruman354

As long as you buy the OSX disk you are in the gray area regarding Hackintoshes and Apple won't really find out since OSX doesn't phone home like Windows does. The thing is though you almost need to look at what the hardware in tha Mac's are to yours if you want a smooth Hackintosh experience or else you are going to have a hell of a time loading modded kexts and editing certain plist files just to get things to semi-work correctly.

Always stick with Intel and Nvidia hardware since it seems to play nicely with loading OSX, ATI works but some of the newer ATI cards have OSX driver issues. It isn't hard stuff just a lot of instructions to follow if you get stuck but it is a fun little weekend project.

You can look at a software called VMware. I use it to use windows server 2003, and linux Red Hat. Its a great piece of software that let you run any OS virtually.GazaAli

People have claimed they run OSX, but it is far from supported and/or stable. You can read this a little more if you are interested. Technically,, VMware will not run MacOS straight out.

http://communities.vmware.com/thread/16346

well it's not actually supported or allowed but that never stops anyone lol ;) :lol:

As long as you stick with Intel CPU, Intel based boards (no nForce chipsets), and Nvidia cards it's really not that difficult. I've done two this week!

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I know it's possible to install Windows on a Mac, but is it possible to install OS X on a PC? The reason is, I like OS X and wouldn't mind being able to boot it on my PC (alongside Windows 7 of course), but there is no way I would ever buy a Mac. They are far too expensive for the technology you get.

saruman354

I mean, no I have never done this and neither should you since it is against apples user agreement.

Yeah that's what I was going to do, just use separate hard drives. I seem to remember a Mac savvy friend of mine saying something about how it had to be an Intel processor to run OS X. Is that true?

saruman354