I posted a detailed guide on my blog about how to create a Yosemite VM, feel free to check it out if you're interested. Graphics are still slow (and it's even worse in Yosemite) but besides the login screen which takes a good 5 seconds to render due to its transparency, everything else is pretty usable, and it's enough for occasional (hobby) iOS development until you get enough experience to make profitable apps in which case it's still better to buy a real Mac as this setup may break at any update.
You will need an App Store account to download Xcode even though Xcode is free.
My current macs work great but I was sold on the long battery life and the power of the claimed M1 chip.
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If you don’t have Xcode already, click on the Apple icon in the upper left of your menu and select App Store to open the Mac App Store. I decided to purchase the new Apple M1 MacBook Pro (2020) for development purposes. An SSD is a must have though, a hard drive will be bloody slow (that's also true for a real Mac). Xcode is an IDE (Integrated Development Environment) that includes everything you need to develop macOS, iOS, watchOS and tvOS apps. One reason is dedicated control and arrangement of features. In the end, with my solution I am able to successfully run Yosemite with 3,5GB of RAM (out of the 4GBs of my computer, and by tweaking the host system I could probably push it even more to 3,7GB), using the two cores of my CPU, with reliable USB pass through and no tweaking required (the emulated hardware is close enough to a real Mac that the OS boots directly without any kernel command line parameters or extra kexts). Why would you use Desktop Apps instead of Web Apps Why would a developer create a desktop application when access to the original web app is a few clicks away through the browser. What you can do (and I have done it with much success) is use a lightweight Linux installation as a base for QEMU which is a Virtualbox alternative, with much more configuration options, including the ability to emulate the Apple SMC and its "OSK" string (you won't need shady "hackintosh" kexts) and it has reliable USB pass through (I successfully restored iOS devices and installed apps on them). In 2020, developers released, on average, 392 new apps to the Mac App Store every month. Virtualbox on Windows is definitely not suitable for this, as Windows itself is quite resource-hungry, Virtualbox lacks many configuration options and even if you can get it to work it's going to be quite unreliable, not to mention that you can't pass through USB devices.
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