Hi, I just wondering about this since I want to spend my own money to buy custom build so I want to install Microsoft Windows 7 and Apple MAC OSX so I hope you guys can help me to decide what is the best to get it.
P.S. I rather to have custom than buy iMac or Macbook Pro (just because they dont have blu ray)
Thanks,
Mustapha
What type of programs are you intending on running? If you only need to run Office, Email, and Web applications then 4GB of RAM should be enough, but if you plan on doing any creative professional work, virtualization, or scientific computing then 8GB of RAM or more would be preferred.
As for Windows, Apple provides Boot Camp, which will allow you to install Windows to a second partition on your hard drive (dual-booting). However, this requires you to shut down the Mac side in order to run Windows, and vice versa. An alternative to this is to use a virtalization program like Parallels Desktop or VMWare Fusion, which will allow you to run Windows within OS X. The benefit is you can run programs side-by-side with your Mac programs, but at a cost of overall performance (and dong such will use more system resources and thereby require more RAM, so 8GB would be a minimum I would recommend).
The only options for building a supported Mac system are through Apple's online store, where you will configure a Mac system for your needs by choosing items like CPU speeds, RAM, and hard drive options. Apple does not support Blu Ray on its systems.
One option for Blu-Ray is to get an external player or even an internal one for a Mac Pro system, and then load Windows in Boot Camp to use the player, but it will not work with Apple's software on the Mac side. There are some tools that could make use of it, and some media players that claim to play BD discs in OS X, but nothing has really stood out that does this well.
You can only run the Mac OS on Apple hardware.
Can custom build install OSX?
