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g4m3rof1337

g4m3rof1337

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Can I get a new hdd and install the new mac os on it?
So.
Having one hdd with windows, one hdd with linux, and another with mac.


Can I do so?


Thanks
 
g4m3rof1337 said:
Can I get a new hdd and install the new mac os on it?
So.
Having one hdd with windows, one hdd with linux, and another with mac.


Can I do so?


Thanks
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I personally don't see why you couldn't. Although there might be some hardware issues? But I'm completely for sure on that.
 
I dont think you can install the Mac OS on a Windows-based PC without hacking it, unless they made it so you could.
 
Could I....

Get a mac hdd?
Would the attachments with different?

I am finding hdd's that are compatible with macs and pc's
 
[-0MEGA-];588791 said:
I dont think you can install the Mac OS on a Windows-based PC without hacking it, unless they made it so you could.
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Really? I mean he would just be installing the Mac OS on a standard hd. Is it hardware issues like I thought or something else?
 
g4m3rof1337 said:
Could I....

Get a mac hdd?
Would the attachments with different?

I am finding hdd's that are compatible with macs and pc's
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It depends. Sometimes the MAC hd's do have different connections and therefore different speeds as well. Like I said I'm not 100% positive on this. I would wait for more replies. Sorry!
 
Yeah, you can now run double OS's on intel macs, but any mac's before that can only run mac os or linux do to the processors. I think there is a program called power pc, which clones windows on older macs, before they can equiped with intel processors. I'm pretty sure you limited to what programs can be ran on pc clone as well.
 
Sacrinyellow5 said:
Yeah, you can now run double OS's on intel macs, but any mac's before that can only run mac os or linux do to the processors. I think there is a program called power pc, which clones windows on older macs, before they can equiped with intel processors. I'm pretty sure you limited to what programs can be ran on pc clone as well.
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On PPC based macs you could run an emulator called virtual PC, and it sucked. Now that macs are x86 based they can run just about anything. I have 4 OSes on my Macbook Pro and I run many virtual machines on my laptop as well via parallels. I am going to install a virtual Netware and Windows server on it pretty soon when I update some of my certifications so I can learn some new stuff.

Virtualization software is where its at man, it is pretty sweet what you can do these days with it.
 
tlarkin said:
On PPC based macs you could run an emulator called virtual PC, and it sucked. Now that macs are x86 based they can run just about anything. I have 4 OSes on my Macbook Pro and I run many virtual machines on my laptop as well via parallels. I am going to install a virtual Netware and Windows server on it pretty soon when I update some of my certifications so I can learn some new stuff.

Virtualization software is where its at man, it is pretty sweet what you can do these days with it.
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Yeah, thats what I ment "virtual pc" not power pc, got mixed up. I've been really thinking about buying a new mac pro and condensing down all my computers. Would be wonderful running Vista and OSX all on one computer.
 
Sacrinyellow5 said:
Yeah, thats what I ment "virtual pc" not power pc, got mixed up. I've been really thinking about buying a new mac pro and condensing down all my computers. Would be wonderful running Vista and OSX all on one computer.
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dude I can't even begin to tell you how much my macbook pro kicks ass. I love that thing. Of course its a work computer and I don't game on laptops, but heck you could game on it if you wanted to. Right now I have OS X 10.4 on it, Boot camp partition of Windows XP Pro SP2, virtual machines of XP SP2, Kubuntu, and a virtual machine of backtrack which is a knoppix based linux security analyzer distro.

I can run virtual servers of any OS on that thing, which is awesome for testing things out.

Parallels did mention to Apple (i read this off digg.com the other day) that they did hope for sometime in the future to port OS X into a virtual machine for their product and was kind of asking for their blessing. Apple gave no response, but I can only imagine that at some point they will be given permission to do so, but who knows because Apple relies a lot on hardware sales for profit.
 
g4m3rof1337 said:
So I can run the mac os on my hdd.

Any type of special hdd


Or doesnt matter?
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Here is the deal, you can in fact install OS X on a PC if you purchase it. You can get all the support you need form the OSX86project

http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

Now the project has said it has never received any kind of cease and desist warning from Apple. If Apple did that all support for that project would be scrapped.

So if you own a legal copy you can technically load it on any PC you want, however stability and compatibility are not guaranteed. i suggest going over to the project site and read the installtion part and learn how it works. I have never personally loaded OS X on a custom built PC or a PC manufactured by a company so I can't be of that much help other than pointing you in the right direction.
 
tlarkin said:
So if you own a legal copy you can technically load it on any PC you want, however stability and compatibility are not guaranteed. i suggest going over to the project site and read the installtion part and learn how it works.
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not quite, apple uses a different bios, you need to download a cracked osx iso and burn it to cd(not legal,at all). and install it. ive done andit was fun for a day but you are gonna need to find drivers for it on their site. if you dont feel comfortabel doing it i wouldnt recomend it. he seems like a beginer.
 
The Purple Champ said:
not quite, apple uses a different bios, you need to download a cracked osx iso and burn it to cd(not legal,at all). and install it. ive done andit was fun for a day but you are gonna need to find drivers for it on their site. if you dont feel comfortabel doing it i wouldnt recomend it. he seems like a beginer.
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well intel based macs do not use a bios they use EFI, and once the PC world (vista does not support EFI) catches up I bet you may be able to buy a board that supports its natively. That is complete speculation at this point though. I never tried it really so I was unaware of the "cracked" bios file. However, that is not hacking OS X, that is hacking the hardware and the motherboard companies would have to send out cease and desist letters to the OSx86 project and no one has of yet. So, it is more like a no harm no foul type of situation. I am sure if someone was able to make money off it then the legal stuff would hit the fan.
 
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