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How much effort was it to get it to work? Can you install xcode? I'd really like to play with swift and playground.
by newjersey 11y ago
How much effort was it to get it to work? Can you install xcode? I'd really like to play with swift and playground.
- chrisper 11y agoI have a Hackintosh and it's just like a real mac. Sometimes there are compromises that you have to make (like some hardware just doesn't work and it's easier to just buy a USB equivalent). I installed XCode and it works great! It was pretty easy for me to set it up, some great people over at http://insanelymac.com/ http://insanelymac.com/ helped me.
- fractallyte 11y agoI selected the laptop very carefully: it's a Dell Latitude E6220, refurbished. With all the upgrades (SSD, wifi, even a new keyboard and case), it came to around $300 - laughably cheap! It took a week to get it working. (All instructions at http://www.osxlatitude.com/ http://www.osxlatitude.com/) A physical copy of Snow Leopard is required. I encountered problems downloading Yosemite in VirtualBox, so access to a real Mac may be necessary. My local Apple Store had everything locked down, but a nearby PC store (also selling Apple) didn't! Initiating a download on the App Store added Yosemite to my account, and made it possible to continue the process back home in VirtualBox. Once I had a bootable USB flash drive, the installation was a breeze. After that, just fiddling with drivers ('Kexts') and bootloaders - not too intimidating for Linux users. Most importantly for the experiment: XCode works perfectly! I have a full dev environment, and I love it!
- newjersey 11y ago> A physical copy of Snow Leopard is required. It happens that I have a 2006 Macbook (x86, not x86-64) running snow leopard. I used to have the disk but I don't know if I still do. I'll look in the process more. Thank you.