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Dom |
posted on 5th Feb 10 at 00:42 |
If using a PC keyboard, the ALT key becomes the OSX Cmd(Command/Apple) key... | |
James_DT |
posted on 5th Feb 10 at 00:18 |
quote: How do you do things like Copy, Paste, Quit etc? The Apple key is used quite heavily in OS X. quote: Ctrl + Click, although most Apple mice these days have a right click, as do the track pads if you tap with two fingers. | |
AlunJ |
posted on 4th Feb 10 at 22:30 |
quote: the newer ones don't have the apple button any more! | |
Doug |
posted on 4th Feb 10 at 22:14 |
I wonder if I would be able to trade my Samsung NC10 for a Macbook. | |
pow |
posted on 4th Feb 10 at 22:08 |
Yeah of course for a company stick to OSX on a mac. If your looking at learning some I'd just shove it on a Virtual Machine/2nd Hard Drive. | |
Dom |
posted on 4th Feb 10 at 22:00 |
quote: It's not emulation, it's actually OSX. An Apple Mac uses Intel hardware, so it's an x86/x64 system (ie: a PC!) with an EFI rather than a bios (as such). So you basically have a Mac (in terms of operating system) but without the stupid costs of buying one. I was using Logic/Protools, Adobe Suite and Final Cut without any problems, and i was pushing these apps pretty hard daily. Regarding installation, a part from issues with installing, you might have problems with ktexts (drivers) especially for external hardware (ie: Soundcards, some Wifi cards/dongles, audio hardware like midi controllers etc) - but read around the forums first and check all your hardware to see if it's compatible first and what you need to get it running!! And yes, ideally wack it on another hard drive. You can install OSX side by side with other O/S's, but if you have issues then it'll likely pull the others down with it (as i said before about the bootloader etc). Unplug all your other drives, install OSX on it's own drive and get it working, then plug the other drives back in. As for your NC10, i believe you can install it on there without too much hassle. Again check the forums. Also, if you have NTFS partitions/drives then you'll need to install something like NTFS-3G to get OSX to recognise them properly. quote: Doesn't matter what you're doing with it, it's illegal to install Retail OSX on anything other than Apple hardware (as stated in OSX’s EULA). Hence why i wouldn't do this if it was for company/work use, otherwise go for it - it hasn't stopped me or any of the other thousands of people building hackintoshes :lol: Edit - By company/work use, i mean installing OSX on a system that belongs to the company. If it's your own hardware then do what you want... [Edited on 04-02-2010 by Dom] | |
Doug |
posted on 4th Feb 10 at 21:36 |
So if I bought another hard drive I could have MacOSX running on that? Would it be a proper emulation of a normal Mac operating environment? | |
pow |
posted on 4th Feb 10 at 21:23 |
If its for personal use gtf, I'd do it. He's doing it for testing purposes, Microsoft GIVE their software away for testing and educational purposes. | |
ed |
posted on 4th Feb 10 at 21:21 |
Here's all you need to know. The press the Apple button when clicking the mouse, it's the same as a right click. | |
Dom |
posted on 4th Feb 10 at 20:55 |
quote: Needs to be OSX Server which is £408!! And you can only VM this, it becomes illegal if you install in as a stand-alone OS, plus OSX runs pretty slow VM'd unless you run it under a ESXi server (ie: - this is an expensive option, just get a second hand mac mini if needs to be legit). Again it's still illegal to use a retail copy as you have to modify it, so you might as well just get hold of a dodgy copy that's already been modded and save the cash. | |
pow |
posted on 4th Feb 10 at 20:35 |
I'd purchase a £30 copy and VM it? | |
Dom |
posted on 4th Feb 10 at 20:25 |
quote: Yeah, it's obviously illegal to do though. So if it's for work i'd probably give it a miss, at home well yeah it's your own call. Have a read of the forums and wiki at >OSX86 Project<, see if there any issues with your hardware (motherboard/processor/soundcard/graphics etc) and what drivers you need. Then just grab a copy of modded OSX (iATKOS or iDeneb or iPC), i'm sure you know where to look, and then basically boot from CD and install. Like i said though it might be a bit hit and miss with the installation - i had a rough idea of what ktexts/drivers to install and got a decent copy going within 10mins but you might select a driver that causes OSX to 'Kernel Panic' (black-screen basically) and then you start again etc. If you have a spare drive then use that for OSX!!!! As OSX86 requires a bootloader and a modded boot partition and it can causes issues with the other O/S (say a bad installation takes out the boot sector - so windows is still there, but you have to repair the drive, ie: it's a ballache). But like i say, once you get it working it's pretty solid (never had an issue here) and it's either the same or better performance to an Apple Hardware (spec v spec). [Edited on 04-02-2010 by Dom] | |
Doug |
posted on 4th Feb 10 at 20:09 |
quote: A fair bit. I want to learn the in's and outs of the file system etc So I could set up a dual boot with Mac OSX and Vista? | |
Cosmo |
posted on 4th Feb 10 at 19:59 |
Learn what exactly, just the basics of using it or a lot more than that? | |
Dom |
posted on 4th Feb 10 at 19:58 |
Virtual Machine a copy of OSX (legal to VM OSX Server, illegal to VM retail copy as it has to be modified) - images are freely available, but it isn't very fast. | |
Doug |
posted on 4th Feb 10 at 19:34 |
Hi, |