can a pc run Mac?

anbo369

anbo369

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hey,
I am planning on building a computer and i asked my friend at school if i should use a Mac OS. he replied saying that the computer i build won't be able to run it, no matter how good i make it... he says that it won't be powerful enough or something. even if i was to build a really up to date computer he said it won't be able to run it. I think he said PC's can't run Mac or something and i have no idea why.
Is he correct? If so why is it like that?

and btw the computer i plan to build with have a dual core processor and atleast 2gb ram (ddr2)..... cbf going into the other details


so yeah if you could lend me a hand that would be greatly appreciated!

p.s sorry if it doesn't make much sense
 
Well, if Bill Gates and Steve Jobs got married you would be able to.
Really, it is impossible.
 
Look up osx86 on google, they have their own wiki and a forum dedicated to this (actually many forums). It's also known as a 'hackintosh.' It is illegal and violated apples eula. And its a bit iffy, with updates and all that...
 
Thanks guys!
so i could install it onto a freshly built computer.... it would just be illegal and updates would be a trouble. (just making sure)

cheers!
 
While it is against Apple's EULA, it has not been fully determined whether Apple's EULA conditions themselves are legal. There is a company call Psystar that has been selling PCs with Mac OS for over a year now. They've had an ongoing lawsuit from Apple since July 2008, but so far they seem to be winning, and they're still selling computers with OS X.
 
interesting...

looks like i'm gonna have to get windows 7. do you guys have any idea of what that will cost? (i live in australia so let me now if you are giving the US price)
hopefully i don't have to chop out and extra 100-200 bucks.

thanks a ton for your help!
 
Bodaggit23 said:
Altering the OS has nothing to do with it.
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Actually, not quite true. You see Apple uses a TPM to ensure that their product gets loaded on their hardware. They do this instead of DRM. To install it on non Apple hardware you actually have to hack around the TPM, which according to the DMCA is actually illegal.
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I wonder how good Windows would be if Microsoft only had to make their OS
work on few different hardware scenarios.
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I bet it would run way better. My boot hard drive failed a few days ago and I ran up to the local computer store and bought a new drive (got a 1TB w/ 32mb cache SATA2.0 for $80!) I had to reload Vista on my PC. First thing my PC did is in the BIOS since my old HD went bad and was no longer recognized it promoted my data drive as the main boot drive. Which in a sense makes logical sense but in another sense it makes no sense. Which took me a few boot cycles to figure out since it kept saying boot disk failure after I reloaded it. I went into my BIOS and set the HD boot order to hit my new drive first and then my second drive last. Then, my motherboard has a weird issue with the built in Windows driver where if it goes to sleep it cannot be woken up at all. So I have to update the power management controller's driver on the mother board otherwise it will not wake at all after being put to sleep.

So out of the box my built PC does not work that well with Windows. I also have a few driver issues with my NIC that I need to load for it to work properly out of the box. All of these issues aren't really a big deal for me, as I can typically figure them out. However, I have never owned a system that would promote the next HD in the boot order in the BIOS, and that threw me for a loop for a few minutes. It has a system boot order, and then it also has a specific HD boot order for when the boot strap hits the hard disks. I guess that makes sense in some esoteric advanced configurations but I keep my stuff simple.

Whenever I swap HDs out in a mac and reload the OS everything works out of the box.
 
Your friend doesnt know what hes talking about,And we cant talk about putting a Mac os onto a standard pc in here.
 
okie dokie that's fair enough.

but did someone say that windows doesn't always work on custom built computers?
or at least that's how I enterperated it
 
anbo369 said:
so your saying that windows doesn't always work on all custom built computers?
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No, it works fine, but it doesn't work out of the box with out me installing and updating certain things first. Where as OSX will work out of the box on any Mac you install it on, granted it is a supported model.

PC and Macs have different business models and you get different benefits from each.
 
tlarkin said:
No, it works fine, but it doesn't work out of the box with out me installing and updating certain things first. Where as OSX will work out of the box on any Mac you install it on, granted it is a supported model.

PC and Macs have different business models and you get different benefits from each.
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Well said.

That's exactly the point.

The Mac OS is tailored to the specific Mac Hardware, thus all the drivers are included with the install.

Windows is made to be installed on basically any hardware configuration, but it's up to the manufacturers of the hardware and software to create drivers.
 
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