Make A Hackintosh

Sometimes the best tool for a job is a Mac, chiefly when you are doing testing for your Mac users.  For some reason the people at Apple computer company vastly overvalue their computers, they can still easily charge four times what any other manufacturer would for the same hardware.  Because of this, many developers cringe at the thought of supporting Apple computers.  Never fear though, Hacintoshes are quite easy to make nowadays, read on to find out how.

Materials:

• Snow OSX Universal
• An old Intel computer

Procedure:

1. Download and burn Snow OSX Universal, you know where to find it....
2. Put it in your computer and boot from the CD.
1. If you get a cryptography error try booting in to safe mode, that will sometimes work around the error.
3. Once the CD boots create a Mac Journaled file-system on your computer using the disk utility (it is in one of the menus at the top).
4. Finish the install.
5. Reboot and enjoy.  Or maybe not, as sometimes with laptops the OS removes drivers after the first shutdown, like those for your mouse and keyboard; maybe you should shut down by holding the power button if this happens to you.

Conclusion:
Testing your cross platform applications can be a mess, but made a little cheaper by using this method, as long as you don't mind the pain of playing with a half working Mac system.  But hey, who doesn't like tinkering with operating systems?