have been giving alot of thought lately to moving to a Mac as a primary development platform, leaving behind my 12+ year associated with Windows and even my more recent Linux influx. I think the best ever Windows go to with XP..Vista has yet to impress, and maybe finding this as an excuse I decided to play around with the MAC OS, without standing for hours at an Apple store with someone store guy bugging me. After a few days of tinkering, here is the result: Using pcwiz’s VM release, I have a fully operational Leopard VM running on my Windows Vista laptop. (Yes, Leopard VM ON Vista, not XP/Vista ON a Macbook)
This works well if you want to demo/play with the OS but is slow and you will not get any of the performance benefits of a real Mac. I did this to see if the usability is as credible as the hype says it is.
disclaimers : This is a test I did for educational purposes only. Buy a Mac OS Leopard license , or a Mac box if you plan to use a similar technique for daily work in a commercial environment.
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[...] For the geek in you : a Mac OSx Leopard VM running on my IBm T61 vista box. So, if I wanted, now I can run Leopard and Vista on an IBM T61 laptop. I call this having my cake and eating it too
Mac fans do not accuse me of blasphemy (yet), I am thinking of making the switch so I’m just playing with the OS to get an idea. Full post here. [...]
Um, which distro are you using? Kalyway? I’ve been trying to get this to work on my Intel SSE3 WinXP with VMware 6 for ages with iATKOS and Kalyway images and can’t get past the “Do Not Enter” sign on the installer. You don’t have to be my tech support, I was just curious.
Oh never mind! I found a VMware pack by ~PCWIZ. Thanks though! Have a good one
hey…just saw ur comments. yup thats the one i tried too. works like a charm
good luck!
So why did you make the switch to Macs? What about Windows/Linux made you not want to use it anymore?
Hi!
Im running XP on T61 but never managed to get the network running.
What exactly did you do to make it work?
I did it once on my 2.53 celeron machine. It was dead slow and I had to wait for the output of even a motion of cursor.