I know we have a few Mac faithful on the board... your thoughts on all the recent buzz over Apple switching to an Intel platform? Only thing that really kills my boner is that they say you still can't run OS X on a non-apple PC. WTF?! I hope the hackers get it going. Dirt-cheap clone PCs are just what the doctor ordered. Discuss..

For those not in the know: http://www.macworld.com/news/2005/06...ntel/index.php

 

I always assumed (being a PC guy) that one of the reasons Macs were so solid was due to the fact they had such a tight control over the type of hardware that was supported. Pretty small list when you consider what is out there.

Anyone who can write a driver can create hardware for PCs not so on Macs.

If you want the reliablility of the Mac I just figured that was the price you paid.


I may have jumped off the mac bandwagon too fast (if I was ever on) but when they still had one button and PCs were up to 3 with side buttons I figured Macs had no clue.

 

Oh that and I wonder how that will affect their graphical performance moving away from a RISC processor....

 

I dont like MAC's for the layout.

*RIGHT CLICK*

 

I hate any OS I consider Fruffy. That goes for Mac and XP. I use Windows 2000 because I dont know enough about Linux. If I had my choice, I'd be a DOS user.

 

DOS was great. If you like 2000...you really should move to XP Pro. It is essentially the same operating system with a lot of improvements. Just do what I did and turn off all the green button eye candy crap. I resisted but it much better.

 

Yeah, but Macs still crash so they are not doing THAT great with the hardware. All my intel-based PCs running XP rarely crash. I'd put XP on the same level of reliabiltity as OS X.

I don't think programs native to the new platform will suffer in peformance any. With intel pushing it's processors faster and faster, the gap between the Power PC and Intel chips is all but gone.

I'm shocked Apple didn't scrap Power PC for the new cell. Not sure what the heck Jobs is thinking these days.

My hope out of all of this is that the prices DROP and you can get a decent mac for a decent price. Only reason I don't have a mac is I refuse to pay 25% more for the same speed if not slower hardware and a TON less gadgets..

 

If they were cheaper I'd buy one just to have it and use it and see how well it works.

My PC with XP doesn't crash but then again I don't have Jamz working on it.

 

I was skeptical about XP at first too. I didnt want it. I wanted to stick to 2K PRO.

Now that I have it, and I did like ol VADER there....I like it muches.

 

I didnt see that.....[insert smiley sticking out tongue]

 

Once some one hacks it to run on non-mac hardware, the real trick will be dual-booting. I know you can use dd to get a boot sector out OS X just like Linux, So you should be able to add it to the NT Loader.

Jamz, you can right click in OS X. Either use the Ctrl key while clicking or plug in a Windows USB mouse, but there is an alternate context menu. I'll be glad when they add program menus instead of rifling through your hard drive, for now I use TigerLaunch, but it's not perfect. An application removal tool would be nice too, even RPM, but the Add/Remove in Windows would be sweet.

 

Thats the stuff I'm talking about.

 

XP is very customizable. There are so many web pages out there that will help you 'trick' it out to a prefect set up for your own use. Google it and go crazy.

31C

 

Thats old news. Some people already got OS X on pc. Apple trying to jump on the band wagon and make some money off it. Anyway it gonna be slow as dirt because OS X was never meant to run on Cisc processors. If Mac your thing then jump for joy. http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/...18/PearPC.html

 

Have you actually run PearPC? I wouldn't exactly call it a success...