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Originally Posted by OakdaleMike
Is there any quasi-legal way to do this? That is, can you get a copy of an Apple OS without owning an Apple PC?
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I think the other poster (forget who, sorry) is referring to using a Macintosh computer and using emulation to run Windows. Older Macs could do that with software emulation, which made Windows run slower than on a regular PC.
Newer Macs with Intel CPUs (I think that would be any Mac built in the past five years or so) can be set up to run Windows with software emulation as described above, or natively due to the CPU. The second one is supposed to be faster. I have not tried either myself so the speed comparison is just what I have heard from people who have.
I don't think you can legally run an Apple OS on non-Apple hardware, with the exception of some Apple clones from pre-OS X days. I think someone has been able to do it but I don't know the details.
As for Safari, I rarely use it on my Mac and use Firefox instead. I don't see a compelling reason why a Windows user would choose Safari over the many options out there, unless if he or she needed to test website compatibility.