I have an iMac at the moment, and I've been getting into coding a lot more recently (picked up some books about C and Obj C, getting through them at a decent rate) and my main goal is to develop iPhone apps. . eventually.
However, I might be doing a bit of travelling in the near future and I want to keep up this coding so I don't lose focus on it, and there's no way I can take my iMac with me. I would buy a Macbook, but I literally don't have enough cash to spend £850 on a laptop that - after about 4 months - I won't be using that much.
So my question, are there any netbooks/not-really-that-expensive-laptops that you can turn into a Hackintosh, that in the end will run Snow Leopard well enough to run Xcode? It doesn't really need to be blazing fast, I guess compiling may take a while on a slower machine but as long as it's not ridiculously slow I'll be fine with it.
Also, does anyone have any experience with installing OSX on something other than a Mac? How easy is it, and what's the stability like?
Thanks.
If your buying to make a Hackintosh, it's pretty easy. You just have to make sure you have compatible components. I've had headache trying to get it working on machines I already owned. Most modern systems will [i]work[/i] but not at full steam.
This website is dedicated to OSx86 and is more knowledgeable than I: [url]http://www.insanelymac.com/forum[/url]
You can find a large number of guides there for what you need, getting a normal copy of Snow Leopard to work can take some effort, but will pay off.
When buying though remember this:
Get something with an Intel processor (AMDs will work, but adds a bit of effort and requires an alternate kernel)
Check to see if the video card is compatible first. (For prices sake, an Intel GPU will do, but only certain ones)
Make sure everything works first. Yeah, it takes some effort but it is worth the 4-500 or so dollars saved.
Awesome. I looked around on that site for a bit, found [url= http://www.hackintosh.com/]this[/url] (which seems pretty obvious, I don't know why I didn't see it in the first place) and [url=http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dell-Inspiron-Widescreen-Ethernet-Windows/dp/B003DWMT38/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1282247716&sr=1-1]I think I've found my candidate[/url]. It seems perfect for my needs, and the hackintosh instructions seem pretty damn simple. Plus it's basically a quarter of the price of the cheapest Mac laptop, so I'm happy.
Next question, it says you need a retail version of Snow Leopard, I assume that's referring to the one that's sold in the huge pack of Mac software (it has iLife and iWork as well I believe) that Apple sell for about £140. There must be somewhere to get just Snow Leopard for cheaper, right? I only have the upgrade disk, and I'm pretty sure that won't work from what I've read.
I don't think so.
I hackintoshed my netbook, it runs Snow Leopard decently for not detecting my GMA950 (apparently the latest release of Chameleon forces detection). The retail version of Snow Leopard is the $30 disk you can pick up at an Apple Store. The software isn't included with it. There is, however, but one hitch in trying to develop iPhone apps on a hackintosh: PC EFI
You won't be able to run the iPhone emulator because the iPhone emulator requires an actual EFI system to work, not some hacked-together EFI emulation that sits on top of a BIOS based system. If you don't mind that (I assume you would), then you should be fine. Otherwise, you may want to look into a really cheap mac mini.
[editline]02:25AM[/editline]
However, if you still wish to hackintosh your netbook, you will get better and quicker responses over at insanelymac.com
Sorry to say, but I doubt you'll be able to use XCode on a Hackintosh very well.
It's the Apple way or no way, unfortunately.
Hmm, you reckon? After these replies, I might think about a Macbook now.
Thanks guys.
Even if it does work briefly, the simulator won't, and Apple will eventually (probably quite quickly) find a way to fuck you over.
Sorry, you need to Log In to post a reply to this thread.