What I am asking is if I just bought OSX and ran it on a non-Mac, if I could use the ios license to develop games.
you could potentially but neither is it supported nor are you legally allowed to install osx on anything but apple hardware
Okay, I didn’t know that it was actually illegal, thanks for the heads-up.
yeah you have to have a mac to install osx legally, besides those cracked osx builds seems like a bunch of crap, they are always fighting with drivers issues and updates in forums
even if it would be legal, i would not advice to do so, as its a very dumb idea to have a very unstable and reliable environment in a production computer, it will eventually backfire at you
there is some decent vm-ware images around though
I also realized that hackintosh doesn’t have Beast Lighting support in Unity3d. Tried to ran it in one of the hackintosh a while ago and it seems like a bad idea to use hackintosh for Unity.
I’m in the middle of buying an imac so that I can run the Unity with the new license that I’ve bough a couple of weeks ago. I do have an old Macbook pro 17" 2006 with me but it’s not logic to put a new serial activation on a dying machine.
The effort is especially not worth it cause a refurbished Mac Mini with a 320M or the current core i based ones don’t cost that much. less than the effort on keeping the hackingtosh alive will cost you already within 6 months and that while potentially not even working correctly (keep in mind that you need to upgrade your mac to new os versions constantly as the iOS SDK will not work with older versions normally yet for hackintoshes this can be a major problem)
Beast lighting works on Hackintosh.
System Updates are not a problem depending on the hardware - I do them just like on any other mac with “software update” because since some years you don’t need to hack OS X to install it, all you need is a bootloader. When you build a hackintosh from the scratch with the right parts it should be rock stable, I have macs since 20 years and a hackintosh since 4 years which was much faster than the mac pro when I build it. The point of building a hackintosh is that you can build a high end system and usually can use better graphicscards and install other hardware for much less than a mac pro. I had the 8800 running in the hackintosh months before it was available for the mac. You can also create a much cheaper system, I build one for 200 EUR and it was really fast. Now with lion I have the first time problems with my hackintosh because the graphicscard does not work 100% anymore but is still still no reason to turn on the slower iMac.
But it’s clearly not allowed to run XCode on a non mac. With OS X it’s different depending on the region you are living (think in germany it has to be written on the box so that you will know the rules BEFORE you buy it, I guess with lion as download it is different now)