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You need apple hardware to have any form of OS X maintain accordance using the OS X consumer license agreement,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]. wether or otherwise this "contract" is legally binding is still up for debate.
If you want to inflict kind of iPhone development your xcode environment requires the CPU architecture to be x86,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], so no G4 or G5 systems
I get by perfectly on a stock Macbook Pro (revision 1) But realistically in my opinion you can get by with any Core Duo or Core 2 Duo Mac regardless of speed,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], but you will need at least 1GB RAM, preferably more.
be careful, Core Duo macs usually support only upto 3GB ram because of some flaw in the ram chipset. check the link to the refurbished items,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], it is about the lower left from the main store page. My iMac came from here and did not have a scratch on it and that i got 18% off;
3) Ex-demo and old stock from resellers, especially if they are moving or selling up, once got about 25% off an iPod on Christmas Eve and 40% off a laptop in a closing down sale - you need to watch for these though.
Personally I'd avoid buying on e-Bay - Macs attract scammers and you don't often see genuine bargains, plus laptops might be inside a dubious state. I would sell on eBay though as Macs hold their value well.
See my page for more details.
While I am not a large mac fan, yes it's perfectly legal to operate an online MacOSX(from what I understand)
EDIT: this statement is wrong apparently(see comments). Rest is golden though Smile

virtualbox is an excellent virtual machine and it is free(free,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]. a new concept to mac users).
I run this on linux(but other OSs are supported) even though it's slightly process hungry it will work perfectly, even just in "seamless" mode in which the windows on the virtual machine become integrated with my real machine desktop.
Developing on a Mac Mini works very well: it's not the quickest machine available (especially when you are looking at disk access) and expandability is limited, but unless you are planning on building huge projects, you ought to be fine.
Running OS X on any non-Apple hardware (whether virtualized or not) is really a violation of the license agreement, which means you don't wish to go down that road. So far as I know, there are no off-the-shelf emulators that run it anyway,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and also the custom-built hardware I've seen for this continues to be quite dodgy as well.
Computers are extremely absurdly fast now anything made in the last 2-4 years could be more than usable. The current Mac Mini could be more than enough for many things - it may not function as the "fastest", however it has a dual-core CPU, and you will fit a minimum of 2GBs of RAM into it.
Can there be any other way to have a good dev machine for that platform without purchasing a mac and without doing illegal virtualization / dual booting of OSx86?
The least expensive (legal) way of running OS X would be to borrow a piece of equipment. Even if it's an old G4 iMac, you can still run XCode (and Leopard, if I'm not mistaken). It will not be the fastest,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], most pleasant experience,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], but it'll work. Another alternative is by using a close friends machine remotely, via SSH and/or VNC.
Is virtualizing a genuine purchased OSX legal?
Both Parallels and VMWare Fusion can now legally (and simply) virtualise OS X Server, but only on OS X,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], so this won't be very useful to you.
Something to bear in mind when buying from eBay is when they have opened the Mac they've most likely voided the warrantee even if they have Apple Care,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]. In fact they simply wasted the Apple Care.
And if ANYTHING doesn't work, such as the speaker, Don't buy! This means the opened it and broke something.
You are often better off just buying a refurbished/clearance one from Apple because people come with an unrealistic concept of such a used, warrantee voided computer is worth.
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