Windows 7/mac os x dualboot

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  1. brad7677, Feb 19, 2011

    brad7677 macrumors newbie

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    Hi, i've been trying to figure out a way to run the iphone sdk on windows, but it seems as though the only possible solution, without buying a mac, is to run mac os x on my pc. i've tried it before, and the build i was using wouldn't support my processor. i have a compaq Presario CQ60, running a single core celeron processor, with windows 7. i was wondering what the best mac os x software would be to use, and if i should try and make a dual boot with windows 7, or use a virtual solution like vmware. any further advice/instructions would be helpful.
    thanks in advance.

    -Brad
     
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  2. SDub90, Feb 19, 2011

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    Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_2_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Mobile/8C148 Safari/6533.18.5)

    The easiest solution might be to check craigslist for a used hackintosh or Mac mini. Your hardware is going to make it pretty difficult.
     
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  3. brad7677, Feb 20, 2011

    brad7677 thread starter macrumors newbie

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    someone told me that is was possible to download the sdk in it's current dmg format and convert it to an iso, then from there you could burn it to a disc, and run the installer on your computer, just like a windows program. does anyone think this could be possible, and if so would everything work properly?
     
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  4. balamw, Feb 20, 2011

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    Don't go there. It doesn't work that way.

    See this thread for the cheapest hardware options for iOS development. http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1095673

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  5. mrburns05, Feb 20, 2011

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    i would definitely look around for an old macbook or something, you can find a 15'' MacBook Pro on craigslist these days for a couple hundred bux, well worth it, i used to run hackintosh before i got a real mac, pain in the the but patching CPUID's, editing kEXT files, and performing a bunch of commands and installing custom packages to suite your hardware... really isnt worth the effort.

    I gave my old macbook pro away just a couple weeks ago...
     
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  6. brad7677, Feb 20, 2011

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    ok, i'll look into it, thanks.
     
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