grit
an ugly force for good
Not five seconds, no. It will be faster and less effort than the alternatives of performing repairs to broken hardware though. This is one of the use cases that virtualisation was built to deal with.
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Not five seconds, no. It will be faster and less effort than the alternatives of performing repairs to broken hardware though. This is one of the use cases that virtualisation was built to deal with.
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hiraethified
So tell me the steps I need to go through to get the Mac OS running on my Windows box please.
grit
an ugly force for good
You need to install virtualbox or vmware which allows a guest OS to run on windows. Then download a OS X iso, and use vmware to create a virtual machine.
However a 30 second google search turned up these verbose instructions
http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/Vmware_how_to
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hiraethified
You're having a laugh aren't you? That looks incredibly complex and only offers "poor performance" with no sound.
It's easy to post up links and say that it's "less effort" than fixing a Mac, but who here has actually done this?
grit
an ugly force for good
I have, takes about a hour or two to do. Its less complex and more reliable than trying to resolder broken hardware, which by the sounds of things here isint even guarnteed to work.
Of course its not as fast as a native install (however the performance of the guest os will largely be dependent on the hosts configuration obviously). Its perfectly fine for testing software however other CPU hogs such as 3d rendering I wouldnt really attempt to do.
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hiraethified
If it takes you two hours, it would probably take me two weeks. Probably longer.
I just want a working Mac, not a lifetime battling with obscure and spoddy command line functions that I neither know nor want to know.
19sixtysix
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Standard caps are if anything are easier. Again careful cutting off the caps then cleaning the old solder off. Lead free solder is easy to deal with by using lead tin solder to mix in and then remove it. Always make sure you use a hot enough iron with plenty of heat capacity so you do the job quickly. Use lead/tin solder to put new caps back in. Choose the highest temp rated caps you can get.
Piers Gibbon
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if all the other things don't work out I have a g4 desktop you can have..works perfectly but of course it is not intel so no leopards..new hard drive..and maxed ram afaik
been meaning to get it into a good home for a while
been meaning to get it into a good home for a while
Piers Gibbon
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yeah, a cable from maplins connected it to a normal monitor so it can't be too exotic
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