is it possible to install MAC on PC

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hi ,


Is it possible to install MAC OS on PC. or I need entirely separate hardware for that.

[Aceramic]

While I'm not completely up to date on all the latest things with Apple (I'd love one, but can't really justify spending the money on it, even though I love Apple's and grew up with them), I don't believe you can install any version of MacOS on a normal PC. With the older versions of MacOS (before OSX and the switch to Intel processors), this was due to the fact that it was programmed for the RISC processors used in Apple's. I'm not sure if it will work with the later versions of MacOS designed for the C2D processors.

Someone with more recent experience with Apple's (since my experience, although quite extensive, is all from at least 8 years ago) will probably know for sure about the later versions of the OS.


.... Reading over this post, I'm not even sure what I'm saying, I hope you can figure it out. ;)

[Fou-Lu]

The line between the RISC and CISC based systems is becoming quite blurred. I do not know of anyone whom has successfully dual booted a MAC on a pc, though I know that PC can be installed on a mac. I think the hardware is still a little to specialized for the use of a mac on a non-mac system.


Looks like Aceramic squeezed in before me ;)

[liorean]

The mac is just about as much of a PC as any Windows system these days. There is NO hardware in the mac that is not PC hardware as well. The opposite is not true however: There's plenty of hardware that the Mac doesn't handle. (Mostly internal stuff, however, when it comes to peripherals they are pretty well matched.) OS X uses the palladium chip on the Core2 motherboards to confirm that the computer is manufactured by Apple before the OS runs, but other than that hurdle, I'm sure there are hacks to get OS X running on the PC that works just fine if you can just get hardware that doesn't cause compatibility problems. Not that it's legal doing that, however.

[VIPStephan]

Yeah, unlike Windows which you can run on any “IBM compatible” PC, Apple understood to limit the use of its software on computers that are solely produced/licensed by Apple itself, id est it’s not allowed to run Mac OS on any computer other than those made by Apple.

“Mac” isn’t just a different software, it’s a different philosophy, you know?

[oracleguy]

Actually your biggest hurtle other than Mac OS not supporting a ton of other PC components is that they EFI (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensible_Firmware_Interface) to boot.

And yes before they switched to Intel processors, those versions of Mac OS were written for RISC processors, Motorola ones if memory serves.

As Fou-Lu said, the line between RISC and CISC processors has become somewhat blurred. Modern x86 Intel processors actually internally execute RISC instructions. The CISC instructions are translated into RISC instructions, some times multiple instructions. Not that this matters as far as running RISC instructions on a CISC CPU, you still can't; I just thought I'd share.

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I have 4GB of RAM but still somwtimes computer hangs , Video editing takes as much time to load and process as with 1GB RAM , i thought windows is not right to use , so i though it would be better to use MAC as everyonr uses that for video editing.

But i think thats also not possible.

[oracleguy]

Video processing is more a function of processor speed and if the encoder supports it, the number of processors. I encode video in xvid frequently on my quad core and it runs way faster than my old P4 since it will actually max out all 4 cores. It usually encodes between 60 and 70 frames per second.

RAM can play a part but if it has enough at 1GB, going to 4 isn't going to make it faster.

[tfit]

There was/is the pearpc project, but it will run only older mac os.