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if you're running a Core 2 Duo on an Intel Motherboard, with a NVidia graphics card you are laughing.

If you're running an AMD machine or something without SSE3 it gets a little more involved.

Source: VMWare Knowledge Base If you have a jailbroken i Phone, you can install the iphone-gcc toolchain onto the i Phone through Cydia and that way you can just compilie the apps on the i Phone.

Apps that are developed this way can still be submitted to the App Store.

Is there any way to tinker with the i Phone SDK on a Windows machine?

Are there plans for an i Phone SDK version for Windows?

Apple does not allow these Client OSes to be virtualized.

Alternatively you could pickup a low-spec Mac Mini from e Bay.

If you don't want to purchase a mac you can either run OS X on a virtual machine on your windows box, or you can install OS X on your PC. The other option is to install OS X on your PC, commonly referred to as a hackintosh.

In my experience the virtual machine solution is unusably slow (on a core2 duo laptop with 2G ram). Hackintoshes work quite well - my friend just sold his mac because his Dell quad core hackintosh was actually much faster than the apple hardware (and cost about 1/3).

Also a lot of time they make you use Objective-C equivalent statements simply in another language.

They kind of look the same but there are always subtle differences that you have to learn on top of obj-c.