If your really tight on your budget you can look for a G4 Mac and do development on that, sans support for the iPhone simulator. Pick up something on eBay and at the end of your job you can sell it back on eBay or keep it. The thing ran fine as a media server until I made the mistake of downloading a patch, and then the thing died.Īs Bruce stated a Mac Mini would be a good investment at $500, or better yet, check out eBay. I was able to get OSX running on an old Dell I have laying around. I know there are some VMWare images floating around on the internets, but I wouldn't recommend using any of those.Īlso to Bruce's point, the OSX86 project has made some great progress lately.
You can get the latest version of Parallels Desktop and VMware Fusion from the respective vendors web site.Some of my coworkers have tried the VMWare approach with OSX and have, for the most part, failed. The newer versions of the VM software have built in support, however previous versions may require updating. When/if you upgrade the Mac OS X to Mountain Lion, and you have not yet downloaded and installed the latest updates to the VM software, you will no longer be able to launch the VM software. It is recommended to refer to the web sites of each respective software vendor for more information. However, please be aware if you are currently running earlier version of Mac OS X, and you plan to upgrade to Mac OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.x), software updates to the VM software may be required.
It is quite common to do this when using :Apogee Impose, as a Windows based client is required. Many people are running Virtual Machine software, such as Parallels Desktop or VMware Fusion, on their Macs. Did You Know? Did you know VM software requires updates to run on Mac OS X Mountain Lion?
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