Can be ilfe09 be installed on a pc?

I’m pretty sure you can’t. iLife is a OSX (Macintosh’s operating system) only application, and requires it to install. It’s the same reason why you can’t install a Windows application on a Macintosh. A bit of a shame too. It looks really nice and I’d love to play around with it, but I’m not running any version of OSX.

EDIT: You don’t explicitly say you are running Windows, but by saying “a PC” I assume you do mean Windows.

[Though there are Mac Applications that allow you to run Windows and Windows-only applications on the Mac, which is a legal and practical workaround, there is unfortunately no solution for the other way around – you would have to use a modified copy of OS X to install the whole OS on your machine, just to use iLife.]

iLife 09 is a great excuse to buy a Mac, don’t you think? Not to mention all the other wonderful Mac only programs you could then start using. I say, “Go, therefore, and buy ye a Mac!”

@benseven hit it on the head. Windows cannot run a reliable, virtual version of OS X and iLife is not Windows software.

There’s a discussion about this, with links and more information, on Metafilter.

You could always get a PC capable of running a modified version of Mac OS X, if you’re not opposed to pirateering. I have an MSI wind that boots OS X like a dream. If you want a dirt cheap option, you could always roll your own Mac for 150–200 bucks. Garageband, maybe the most intensive iLife application, runs sweetly on my MSI Wind.

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