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Old 07-30-2012, 06:16 PM   #43
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Originally Posted by LovesMacs View Post
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.
No, the other poster is not talking about running Windows on a Mac - or anything similar. You can run Apple OS on quite a large number of Windows computers, as long as they are dual core Intels. It is done often.

As for the legality, if it wasn't legal, Apple would have stopped it by now. They love suing people and running Apple OS on Windows has been happening for several years. If you own the software licence you can install the software on whatever system you choose.
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