Re:How to roll your own Mac for under $240
by mariomoosum on Wednesday December 31, 2008 @05:00PM
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Does Xcode run on this? Does the iPhone emulator work? Can you do iPhone development with this setup?
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Re:How to roll your own Mac for under $240
by matthew-wegner on Wednesday December 31, 2008 @06:58PM
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Yes. I have a friend who has shipped an iPhone game developed on a hackintosh.
That said, I've personally found them to be problematic over time. We're a 6-person Mac-based game developer, and we picked up a Psystar hackintosh out of curiosity. We had an intern work on it for awhile, but it had some weird quirks. The biggest problem is updating must be done manually and carefully. The longer you have it the more work you're creating for yourself, if you want to keep current, which is pretty much opposite the goal of using a Mac (less work/maintenance over time).