If you want Lion on your Mac, you’ve either got to be a developer or, in the immortal words of Malcolm Reynolds, “aim to misbehave.” Even if you just want your Mac to look like it’s running Lion, you’re out of luck.
But are you the kind of person who sometimes stumbles across a pungent pile of offal in the streets outside of your local butcher’s shop, and instead of crinkling your nose and walking quickly past, stops to adorn it with an array of sparking gemstones, festive ribbons and pretty flowers? Do you also use a PC? You’re in luck.
As it turns out, it’s a counterintuitively easy process to make your Windows 7 install look like Apple’s still unreleased operating system. All you need to do is download the Lion Skin Pack and run the installer, no patching required.
[via Lifehacker]
John Brownlee is a writer for Fast Company, and a contributing writer here at CoM. He has also written for Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, VentureBeat, and Gizmodo. He lives in Boston with his wife and two parakeets. You can follow him here on Twitter.
16 responses to “Make Windows 7 Look Just Like OS X Lion For Some Reason”
Perhaps the underlying hope is that if it looks like a Mac, it will run like a Mac.
Right. Why not just buy the Mac? You can still run Windows on it if need be.
Or you can save $1000 and buy a PC. You can still run OSX on it if need be.
the traffic light light buttons aren’t even aligned properly
Oh really? Actually, only if you get an Intel processor, and then only if you’re actually good with computers. It’s much, much easier to put Windows on a Mac than to put Mac on a PC. Which is also misleading, since an iMac is a PC.
Any instructions on how to uninstall it? Though neat, it is a bit buggy and I regret installing it on my work machine since I can’t work nearly as easily.
It’s become much easier than it used to be. It’s essentially a matter of looking up what hardware you have to see which options to check in the installation. You’re right though, the distinction between a Mac and a PC is shenanigans, and overall it’s very little work for the significant cost reduction of buying an Apple PC. You can also configure better hardware than you can find in any iMac or Mac Mini, and you don’t have to throw away your display when it’s time to upgrade the rest of your system (or replace your entire system because the display went out). I wouldn’t trade my iPhone or iPad for any competing devices on the market, but neither would I consider for a minute buying an Apple PC.
some people obviously never owned a mac…