Should I buy a MacBook for iOS development or make a Hackintosh?
A MacBook would be easier (all I have to do is take it out of the box and install the respective SDK), but more expensive. It also has a lot less processing power per dollar spent.
A Hackintosh, on the other hand, cost less and provides more for each dollar spent, but I would have to partition the hard drive, buy and install OS X, and hunt down drivers.
What do you guys think?
Top Contributors: you're wrong. You guys are making it sound like a Hackintosh is illegal - it's not a federal or state offense. As a matter of fact, jailbreaking an iPhone isn't illegal. Apple just doesn't like people to have this power because it leads to other things - and rightly so. Downloading paid apps and operating systems for free, now that's illegal. I plan on buying OS X legitimately - and there's nothing illegal about creating a partition and putting OS X on it!!! It may void some warranties and piss off Apple, but nothing illegal. All of the computers for programmers at my university are Hackintoshes, and Steve Wozniak was just here Monday (see this link for proof [http://www.acu.edu/technology/mobilelearning/conferences/summit/woz.html] or Google "ACU Steve Wozniak) How did you guys become Top Contributors: by preying on the ignorance of others? Get out of here you morons!
A MacBook would be easier (all I have to do is take it out of the box and install the respective SDK), but more expensive. It also has a lot less processing power per dollar spent.
A Hackintosh, on the other hand, cost less and provides more for each dollar spent, but I would have to partition the hard drive, buy and install OS X, and hunt down drivers.
What do you guys think?
Top Contributors: you're wrong. You guys are making it sound like a Hackintosh is illegal - it's not a federal or state offense. As a matter of fact, jailbreaking an iPhone isn't illegal. Apple just doesn't like people to have this power because it leads to other things - and rightly so. Downloading paid apps and operating systems for free, now that's illegal. I plan on buying OS X legitimately - and there's nothing illegal about creating a partition and putting OS X on it!!! It may void some warranties and piss off Apple, but nothing illegal. All of the computers for programmers at my university are Hackintoshes, and Steve Wozniak was just here Monday (see this link for proof [http://www.acu.edu/technology/mobilelearning/conferences/summit/woz.html] or Google "ACU Steve Wozniak) How did you guys become Top Contributors: by preying on the ignorance of others? Get out of here you morons!
