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Mac OS on a windows PC?

Oct 2, 2005 9:22AM PDT

I was wondering if it's possible to run the mac os on a windows pc. Many people say that the mac os is much more stable than windows, and much viruses are written for mac. If anybody has done this, could you please tell how you did it?

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No. You need an Apple.
Oct 2, 2005 9:27AM PDT

You may have read rumors, but they are about an illegal use of that OS. Sorry that they misled you.

Bob

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Mac on a PC
Oct 2, 2005 9:40AM PDT

Yes, it is possible to get an emulator of almost any OS to run on some other OS. Now all you have to do is do a Google search in looking for that emulator, oh, and also be prepared to write a check... because most of the emulators, worst a darn, are not going to be freeware. If a person (or company) has spent a fair bit of time in working on an OS emulator, working out all the kinks and problems they generally want some money for their hard work.

But what is it you are hoping to accomplish? If you are in the belief that the Mac OS is any less buggy (I am not of that belief) then whatever you have running on the PC will not be as bug free as the ''pure version'' (your preferred OS on the correct hardware). It will have the same sort of bug issues of the base platform, plus the possible bugs of that overlaying OS, PLUS the bugs of the emulator.

I have seem emulators come and go. One of the most versatile platforms was the Amiga, which had emulators for all kinds of other OS'es (PC, Mac, various flavors of UNIX, Atari, even old Apple II), which had all the headaches, also.

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i think apple sued someone for that...
Oct 23, 2005 11:47AM PDT

i read that in my macworld the other day. Oh well it would crapitize on a pc.

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OSX98
Oct 30, 2005 1:41AM PDT

This may be what Robert was talking about. Not legal.

Actually from what I've heard it runs very fast on intel boxes. I'm not holding my breath but I would love it if Apple would allow it.