Asus laptop with Snow Leopard OS?
I would love to buy an Asus laptop (N73Jq) for the great performances but since I hate Microsoft and Linux, is it possible to install Snow Leopard on this laptop? Will it cost me a lot? (I live in Italy) Thank you so much!
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Will it be possible? Probably. Is it legal? No. Apple's license only allows you to install Mac OS X on Apple-branded computers. Is it easy? No. Apple uses a new technology called EFI to boot, instead of the BIOS that PCs have used since 1983. This means that you need to do some major reconfiguring of your computer just to get OS X to boot up. Will it work nicely? No. Apple only releases drivers for the hardware that they support. Since they probably don't support your motherboard or sound card or network card or graphics card, support for those components will be buggy- if it works at all.
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You can only install Snow Leopard on Apple MacIntosh computers. Some people try to create these "hackintoshes" on other types of computers, but it takes an extreme amount of technical knowledge.
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You can run snow leopard through virtual machine on windows, but there are different things you should keep in consideration: -The hardware drivers with mac osX is pretty limited, so you might end up having a laptop with the sound not working, or something else. -Try virtual machine, it allows you to run Mac OSX in windows 7, and if you're willing to do so make sure your laptop's processor is an i5-520M or from a higher segment so that it has Virtual Hardware Acceleration supported, and you won't notice a lot or no lag at all (depending on the tasks you had in mind for max osx)... - You can also search for laptops completely compatible with Mac OS-X and not use virtual machine at all, or find the drivers needed to run it on an asus laptop, so you can install the drivers needed.
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Probably best you you install in a virtual machine over a lightweight version of linux, or a hypervisor OS like Xen.
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