Mac to PC

[ProjectBox153]

I have a hackintosh (specs in signature) that works fawlessly, and I like the experience of MacOS/Mac OS X on a portable machine, so is there a way to use my hackintosh from my laptop with little lag? My laptop is pretty low resolution (1366x768), so it's not too many pixels to push. Thanks. 

[JDK319]

You could use Virtualbox

[Nicnac]

If you are in the same network performance might be just alright but if you plan on remote accessing you rmachine if you are away from home it is gonna get laggy af. Still the experience is not going to be nearly as good and smooth as a native osx system on your laptop.

 

I mean just try it with teamviewer. Free and easy + quick to set up.

[ProjectBox153]

11 minutes ago, JDK319 said:

You could use Virtualbox

That's not what I was asking. I was asking if there was a way to connect to my existing Mac from a Windows computer. 

[Cameron_99]

3 minutes ago, CUDA_Cores said:

Only way to do that is with some sort of remote software like teamviewer. But as noted by @Nicnac your latency will be very high over a network. Especially from far away.

is the latency due to windows accessing a mac or just due to distance? im asking because over thanksgiving, i had to access my desktop from my laptop (using my iphones wifi tethering option) and i was able to work negligible lag. hung up just a couple of times over a 2 hour session. i didnt try a game or anything, so if thats what o/p is asking about, i withdraw myself from this conversation.

 

edit: i was about 300 miles from my desktop

[Nicnac]

2 minutes ago, Cameron_99 said:

is the latency due to windows accessing a mac or just due to distance? im asking because over thanksgiving, i had to access my desktop from my laptop (using my iphones wifi tethering option) and i was able to work negligible lag. hung up just a couple of times over a 2 hour session. i didnt try a game or anything, so if thats what o/p is asking about, i withdraw myself from this conversation.

 

edit: i was about 300 miles from my desktop

it all depends on your network speed at home and where you are accessing it. That's is. However even high-speed networks can experience lag at times. For games Teamviewer just won't even properly transmit anything from my experience.

[bcguru9384]

2 hours ago, Jamiec1130 said:

I have a hackintosh (specs in signature) that works fawlessly, and I like the experience of MacOS/Mac OS X on a portable machine, so is there a way to use my hackintosh from my laptop with little lag? My laptop is pretty low resolution (1366x768), so it's not too many pixels to push. Thanks. 

used to be a tool under netsh ras called appletalk for network communications between windows and apple

not sure if its still there though

[Guest]

TeamViewer 

[jj9987]

On 29/11/2017 at 9:03 PM, Cameron_99 said:

is the latency due to windows accessing a mac or just due to distance? im asking because over thanksgiving, i had to access my desktop from my laptop (using my iphones wifi tethering option) and i was able to work negligible lag. hung up just a couple of times over a 2 hour session. i didnt try a game or anything, so if thats what o/p is asking about, i withdraw myself from this conversation.

 

edit: i was about 300 miles from my desktop

The latency comes purely due to the speeds and distance. Speeds indicate, how much data you can send through. If the speeds are low, you won't be able to display images quick enough because they don't arrive quick enough. Distance matters, as it indicates how much time it takes for packets to travel the distance.

 

Don't expect to get a playable experience though.

[userzero]

On 11/29/2017 at 6:45 PM, JDK319 said:

You could use Virtualbox

 

On 11/29/2017 at 6:57 PM, Jamiec1130 said:

That's not what I was asking. I was asking if there was a way to connect to my existing Mac from a Windows computer. 

They might have been referring to virtualising the hackintosh and putting it onto the laptop. I've done this.

 

Although obviously you'll have 2 hackintosh machine's then which I guess isn't practical so I guess Teamviewer is the most likely option.