Monday, March 3, 2008

To test my software on a Mac, I have to buy one?

huh? I looked everywhere for some way to virtualize a Mac for testing purposes. Nothing. Based on my research it looks difficult to impossible to install Mac OS X on anything but Mac hardware. It's pretty much Russian Roulette if you try it. It will work or it won't. So I ordered a Mac Mini.

I haven't used a Mac since college. They look beautiful and I am looking forward to having one. However, my mind has been trained to view a computer as a sum of upgradeable parts not a single shrink-wrapped device like an iPod. What would happen if Apple became the dominant computer system. They would have a software + hardware monopoly. Very scary.

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