I HAVE A SMALL QUESTION

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[commodore256]

There is another way to try another OS is to use a Virtual Machine. If you've used emulators, you'll get the basic idea, but it's not a emulator, if I emulated a Nintendo, the software emulates a Mos 6502 (the Nintendo's CPU). there's no emulation in a virtual machine and there's a free one called Virtualbox.

I ran Windows XP inside virtualbox and it ran kinda slow because I have a single core CPU.

[BoomerVII]

i like that i never heard it befor but i like it

[commodore256]

You can run any OS on a mac. You can run the Mac OS, Windows, and any Linux Distribution on the mac.

You can have One partition dedicated to mac, one dedicated to window and one dedicated to Linux all on the Macintosh.

But, I have only one problem with the Macintosh and it's way too expensive. There is a way to run the mac Operating System on a non-Apple computer, but it involve piracy. It's called building a hackintosh and I've done it before.

[BoomerVII]

thank you that was very helpful

[lazrpo1nt3r]

You may want to post this as a video response... YT is buggy when it comes to the "upload a video" under the video responses.

Also, his website may be a better route when it comes to questions.

[BoomerVII]

i sent it as a video response and im going to go to his site to

[mcowain]

Download virtualbox, then download the ISO's for the OS's you want.

[bagongpapel]

Use a VIRTUALIZATION SOFTWARE like VMWARE

[AshThEpSYcHo]

@commodore256 No.. xD a PC 50 GB's double core for 90$, i only needed the CPU and PSU which i got it for about 100 bucks.. i also did alot of upgrades for my HDD and other.. which cost me about 300 bucks

[commodore256]

@AshThEpSYcHo a i7 mac for $90? I don't think so.

It's not "getting ripped off" if you buy $1.1k worth of computer parts

The CPU is like $300 (It's a fast as hell one too), The Motherboard like $220, $100 for the Video Card (ok, video card, but worth it) , about $120 for 4GB of DDR3 Memory, about $50 for the power supply, about $40 for a cheep ass case, about $60 for a cheep (but usable) hard drive, $30 for a DVD Drive and the Mac Family Pack for $200 (includes ilife 09)

and shipping too.

[AshThEpSYcHo]

@commodore256 1.1k? you got scammed dude

bought it on ebay for 90 bucks i've never used it though..

[commodore256]

@AshThEpSYcHo I Probably could if I had money to buy the correct parts.

But, I could probably build a core i7 Hackintosh for under $1.1k

[AshThEpSYcHo]

@commodore256 so.. you can't?

[commodore256]

@AshThEpSYcHo If is this in the context to the Hackintosh, It's very picky.

You have to use a certain video card and motherboard because it may not work with your sata controller, ethernet card, sound card, etc.

It also depends on what version of OSX you're running and automatic updates break your system. I never updated and I may have been using a 5 year old shitty computer, but I was lucky everything worked.

It's a super hard thing to do.

[AshThEpSYcHo]

@commodore256 Can you install Videocards and HDD's on it?

[MacTechTutorials]

Mac is the least buggy in my opinion

[jagger1865]

personally i think linux is better than mac and windows because it has alot of cool features and it practially never gets a virus and i can play games on linux that i could never play on windows and there is alot more...