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With respect to iPhone dev, my friend says it's best to buy a mac because if you are going to publish

you will need one anyway. He also says that OS 10.6+ doesn't support AMD based systems

hence the dreaded CPU shutdown in the VM.

 

He says he has tried many VM Images for OSX and most of them fail on AMD based systems.

 

Should I should buy a MAC or reformat my PC (AMD based Phenom) and try a Hackingtosh?

 

Thanks

I'm a master's student in comp sci with a school project to write an iPhone bluetooth app - will be my first. I built a Lion hackintosh on Intel Core 2 Duo last August so was familiar with the process. Since then I've been waiting (like everyone else) for the AMD Lion kernel to do dual boot. Then this project came up so I decided to go for Snow Leopard on VMware.

 

After a bit of research, and a few bumps, I've got a working setup for iphone development. 64bit Mac OS X 10.6.8, Xcode 4.2, legacy AMD kernel V2, VMware 8.0.2 with 2 cpus and 2GB ram assigned to the guest, and VMware tools from darwin313.iso.

 

Everything works, though sound stinks with the Ensoniq driver. Started on VMware 7.1.4 and older AMD kernel but had problems with USB connect/disconnect - SL wouldn't see my iPhone even though VMware did. I upgraded to Vmware8 and V2 kernel and have had only one problem with USB since (haven't been able to replicate it). Unfortunately, I did both upgrades at the same time so maybe the V2 kernel on VMware7 would've worked. Performance is fine, windows pop open with no significant delay. My iPhone 4 running iOS 5.01 is provisioned in Xcode so I'm all set.

 

I have no reservations about this setup. Actually, I like it better than dual boot. With two monitors, I've got SL full screen in one and Windows 7 x64 in one. The mouse flows effortlessly from one to the other - no reboot required.

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