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Re:Xiaomi’s first laptop is a Macbook Air rival by Const-me on Wednesday July 27, 2016 @07:23AM (#12171911)
I was running OSX in VMWare every day for a couple of years, did iOS development. With 8 GB RAM and fast Intel SSD in my Windows laptop, the VM was faster then hardware MacBooks I saw. Modern hardware-assisted virtualization is very efficient, BTW that's exactly what allowed those cloud computing.
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Re:Xiaomi’s first laptop is a Macbook Air rival by Ezhik on Wednesday July 27, 2016 @04:39PM (#12176345)
Doesn't VMware have really lacking graphics support? I remember Yosemite and on with their fancy effects are barely usable.
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Re:Xiaomi’s first laptop is a Macbook Air rival by Const-me on Wednesday July 27, 2016 @06:03PM (#12176843)
VmWare’s virtualized 3D accelerated GPU is IMO very good.

Not sure about compatibility with the recent OSX, though. I used lion and mountain lion, and those worked well. AFAIR I’ve used vmware tools from Fusion.

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Re:Xiaomi’s first laptop is a Macbook Air rival by raihansaputra on Wednesday July 27, 2016 @09:06PM (#12177702)
if i knew a few weeks ago i would probably think a bit more of buying another macbook. osx allows vm installs?
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Re:Xiaomi’s first laptop is a Macbook Air rival by Const-me on Thursday July 28, 2016 @08:26AM (#12179744)
Technically yes. Not sure about the latest OSX, but when I used that, everything worked fine for me.

Legally no. VM or not, the real hardware needs to be made by Apple.

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Re:Xiaomi’s first laptop is a Macbook Air rival by raihansaputra on Thursday July 28, 2016 @09:13PM (#12184461)
no need to tweak kexts like you do with a hackintosh?
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Re:Xiaomi’s first laptop is a Macbook Air rival by Const-me on Sunday July 31, 2016 @03:39PM (#12198479)
No need to tweak kexts.

In the host machine, you need reasonably fast Intel CPU, hardware-assisted virtualization enabled in BIOS/UEFI, enough RAM, also unofficial VMWare patch to unlock OSX guests on PC hosts.

In the guest OS, you need VMWare tools for OSX, they exist because VMWare supports OSX guests when running on OSX hosts.

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