Your best bet is to purchase the actual Mac OSX.  I did, burned it to an 
ISO image and went from there.  I had nothing but trouble with VMWare, 
that is why I ended up using Virtual Box.  You can run Virtual Box on a 
Linux distro, I am using Windows 7 as it is a work laptop.  If you go 
down the hardware route, the challenge would be find something that can 
run one of the later versions of OSX Leopard/Snow Leopard.

Perry


On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 1:27 PM, Samael wrote:

> i tried downloading a mac os a few times before using a windows box. 
> i have
> vmware workstaion.  i just couldn't get the disk to burn.  it would go 
> from
> a gig or something like that to 1 mb then errors; kinda weird, never 
> figured
> that one out.  i think software would be fine though i would have to 
> admit a
> actual mac would be a little more interesting; not quite sure why.  i 
> am
> going to school for computer science not computer engineering.  so, 
> either
> would be a great help!  i have a dedicated linux machine now that i 
> would
> like to learn how to use xen or something similar.  anyway, in 
> closing,
> software would be just fine...
>
> On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 1:12 PM, <dutchman_mn at charter.net> wrote:
>
>> Do you need to learn hardware or software?  The reason I ask is that 
>> I have
>> Mac OSX 10.6.3 running on Virtual Box 4.x (on Windows 7).  So you can 
>> work
>> with the OS outside of the hardware.  I did it in order to learn how 
>> do
>> develop in Objective-C for iOS.
>>
>> Perry Hoekstra
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Samael wrote:
>>
>>  does anyone have a mac they can spare?  i would like to become 
>> familiar
>> with them to prepare myself better for school.
>>
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