Mac OS is the secondmost popular operating system after Microsoft Windows. Although you arecomfortable using Windows for a very long time but there are many scenarioswhere you need a Mac OS machine.
Whether you want to develop your iOS app on Xcode, using apps like Final Cut Pro or iMovie which only comes on Mac OS, you need to buy an expensive Apple Macbook. So, without making a hole in your pocket, the alternate solution to this installing Mac OS on your Windows computer. Let's get started with this tutorial
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By default, macOS Recovery installs the latest macOS that was previously installed on your Mac. You can get other macOS versions using one of these methods: On an Intel-based Mac, you can use Option-Command-R at startup to upgrade to the latest macOS that is compatible with your Mac. Download Mac OS EL Capitan DMG 10.11 Latest Version. Mac is your shot Moderate Access Control or Mac understand as a Mac Address. It was called a Physical speech and Hardware Address because Mac consists of a robust security system that understands one can get Mac's system. Open System Preferences (you can click on the Apple logo in the menu to find it). Click on Software Update. Your computer will check for updates, and show that an update is available for your Mac. Here are the steps Apple describes: Start up your Mac pressing Shift-Option/Alt-Command-R. Once you see the macOS Utilities screen choose the Reinstall macOS option. Click Continue and follow the.
Macos Recovery Mode
Step One: Download Mac OS ISO Image file
As you are on a Windows PC, you don't have access to Apple Store to download Mac OS. You need to download Mac OS from an external trusted source. You can download the latest Mac OS Catalina 10.15 or Mac OS Mojave 10.14 Installer files from our website.
Step Two: Download Virtual Machine for Windows
There is various free Virtual Machine software available for Windows such as Oracle's VirtualBox. But I recommend using VMware Workstation Pro, although it's a paid software but you can use it free for 30 days trial. You can download Vmware Workstation Pro 15 from this link.
Step Three: Install VMware Patch to run Mac OS X
- Go to the VMware macOS Unlocker page to download. Click the Clone or download button, then click Download ZIP.
- Power off all virtual machines running and exit VMware.
- Extract the downloaded .zip file in step 1.
- On Windows, right-click on the win-install.cmd file and select Run as Administrator to unlock. Also, run win-update-tools.cmd for VMware tools for macOS.
- After the unlock process is complete, run VMware to create the macOS virtual machine.
Step Four: Create an Apple Mac OS Virtual Machine
- Click File, select New Virtual Machine…
- Select Typical (recommended) and click Next.
- Select I will install the operating system later. and click Next.
- Select Apple Mac OS X in the Guest operating system section and select macOS 10.14 in the Version section. Click Next.
- In the Name, the Virtual Machine window, name the virtual machine and virtual machine directory. I personally would put it on a different drive than the system drive.
- Select the size for the new virtual disk in the Specify Disk Capacity window. This is the virtual disk to be installed macOS. Click Next and then Finish.
Step Five: Run you Mac OS Virtual Machine with VMDK or ISO file
After successfully creating an Apple Mac OS Virtual Machine, you need to run the machine with an actual Mac OS file such as Mac OS Mojave 10.14 ISO file or Mac OS Mojave 10.14 VMDK Image
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If you face any driver issues, Try installing VMware tools from the VM tab in the VMware window. Also, I would recommend assigning a minimum of 4GB RAM and 40GB of Hard Disk to your Virtual Machine.
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How To Reinstall Mac Os
Maria Campbell provides a post on installing the latest version of Python on Mac OS Catalina and overriding the old default pre-installed version. And it even uses Homebrew and not some gnarly steps.
I finally did it. I successfully installed Python
version 3.7.7
via Homebrew
on my Maclaptop with OS Catalina
installed.
For those of you that still might be trying to figure out how to do this, I will walk you through.
The reason why I was eager to make sure that I had the latest version installed was because I am working on publishing (open-source) teaching-related documentation
on Read The Docs
, and I need to have Python
installed in order to be able to install the programs necessary to publish
there.
The default 2.7.17
version of Python
was retired this past January 2020
. I had tried back then to replace it with Python 3+
, but was unsuccessful at the time.
They key appears to be also adding the following at the bottom of the .zshrc
file to update the path
to the newly installed version of Python
via Homebrew
:
See all the steps in the blog post here and podcast here.