Well, when you have invested in that US copy of Apple Snow Leopard 10.6 you might go ahead and install it.Next, you never know I might even find the money for an i5 powered Apple MacBook Pro :-)
If I get really excited I might even investigate the Server
Apparently, it is even possible to install Snow Leopard on a regular PC. Something like:
- Buy Snow Leopard DVD and EMC's VMware version 7
- Download darwin_snow.iso
- Install VMware 7 on your PC
- Open a Profile Mac OS X Server 10.6 (experimental).vmwarevm that you downloaded earlier
- F8 on starting the virtual machine to get the Boot Menu
- In VMware deselect the darwin_snow.iso and enable the physical DVD drive in which your purchased copy of OSX is already inserted
- Go back to the VMware screen and boot DVD
- Before installing use Utilites option at top of screen to format the 40GB disk
- Then install mac OSX
- If a reboot is required reselect the darwin_snow.iso as the connected DVD that is always attached to the Virtual machine on restart
- Complete the OSX installation
- Fix the screen resolution (example is for 1440x900)
cd /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/ folder
vi com.apple.Boot.plist
Change the file thus:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>Kernel</key>
<string>mach_kernel</string>
<key>Kernel Flags</key>
<string></string>
<key>Graphics Mode</key>
<string>1440x900x32</string>
</dict>
</plist>
Reboot to effect changes (remember you are booting always from darwin_snow.iso)
- Now make a VMWARE7 snapshot in case things go wrong in future.
- Copy EnsoniqAudioPCI.mpkg onto local hard disk
- Double click it to execute, reboot and sound should be active.
