But given that Macs have a very nice UI and very good design tools, it did stay as a wish on the back of my mind.īack in 2007, I stumbled across the OSX86 project (better known as Hackintosh), which was a collaborative hacking project to run the Mac OS X computer operating system on non-Apple personal computers with x86 architecture and x86-64 compatible processors.
What really put me off was their expensive pricing and low performance to cost ratio, not to mention my parents’ unwillingness to buy one for me. All this made me curious about getting myself a Mac. I had absolutely no idea how a Mac worked or looked like in proper detail except the home screen/desktop which I often saw in screenshots.
Ever since childhood, people with Macs would often shun me from using their Mac. Plus, minor hyperlink and text changes.Īpple Macintosh operating system has always fascinated me for a long time, mostly because I was never given an opportunity to use it. Last updated at 20 October 2014: Guide has been updated for OSX 10.9.5.