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Mac OSx Leopard VM running on my IBM T61 with Vista

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)

Mac OSx on Vista

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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7 Responses

  1. [...] 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. [...]

  2. _RoS_128 says:

    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.

  3. _RoS_128 says:

    Oh never mind! I found a VMware pack by ~PCWIZ. Thanks though! Have a good one :)

  4. mohtashim says:

    hey…just saw ur comments. yup thats the one i tried too. works like a charm :) good luck!

  5. Eddie Monge says:

    So why did you make the switch to Macs? What about Windows/Linux made you not want to use it anymore?

  6. Petre says:

    Hi!
    Im running XP on T61 but never managed to get the network running.
    What exactly did you do to make it work?

  7. Junaid says:

    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.

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