Test environment for Safari so a Mac needed?

kippermitten · 24 Oct 2006 at 16:58

Yo.
I need to setup a test environment for the test team, they need to test on a Mac e.g. Safari. What options do i have? Do I need to get a Mac for em? Any way to use Mac in a virtual environment? Ive seen OSX can be made to run in a VMware machine but looks flakey.

What u guys reckon?

paradigm · 24 Oct 2006 at 18:27

Check out PearPC, although it will need to be a relatively decent (talking P4 upwards) PC to get decent performance from it.

I use it at work when I need to talk mac users through changing system options (saves me having a mac).

EDIT:

Or if you can get a copy of OS x86 (the intel x86 based version of OS X)

Hxc · 24 Oct 2006 at 18:37

http://www.browsrcamp.com/

Al Vallario · 24 Oct 2006 at 18:53

paradigm said:
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Both of those methods violate the EULA of the MacOS X operating system, as far as I'm aware.

The only way to legally run a copy of OS X is on a mac.

*av

MikeTimbers · 24 Oct 2006 at 22:52

Bear in mind that Safari 1.x runs on 10.3 and Safari 2 runs on 10.4

Depending on how thorough you want to be, you will need two Macs.