Eddie Turfboer Posted February 18, 2007 Share Posted February 18, 2007 Hello all, I would like to open a little discussion on the topic of running Mac OS on a processor only supporting SSE. Let me explain why I would like that to happen. I am running 10.4.7 on my desktop P4 which is located at home. I also have a, rather old, laptop. That laptop is equiped with a AMD 1600+ which does not support SSE3 and SSE2, but does SSE. Well I do like to run a Mac OS version on that laptop, which I take on to the universitiy to work on. I have done some research, things I found are that it is virtually imposible to run Mac OS on a machine with only SSE. The thing is the word virtually, so it is posible but not directly, have to apply some patches or modify the system or something. The only thing is, I cannot find any information concerning what can be done to make ik work. Well there will offcourse be performance loss (like that happens also when you use Rosetta in SSE2 instead of SSE3), the performance loss is there also in XP, therefore I am currently running a hacked version of Server 2003. Can anybody point me in the good direction or do you believe I am crazy? All comments are welcome! With greatings, Eddie Turfboer The Netherlands. P.S. Thanks Apple for goning Intel! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
munky Posted February 18, 2007 Share Posted February 18, 2007 http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...pid=301161& Welcome to the party Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SnowHow Posted February 19, 2007 Share Posted February 19, 2007 (edited) In my humble opinion, no real work on that type of thing will happen untill the computing world as a whole sees the direction M$ is going. At this rate, most people will have to ditch perfectly good hardware for the most powerfull high-end machines that they can get their hands on just to send an e-mail to Grandma. It's ridiculous. A *minimum* memory requirement just to install Vista is like 500 Megabytes. The people at Apple have an opportunity to turn the tables right under their nose. If they could engineer Mac OS to work on mainsteam PC's, they could rake in money from sales hand-over-fist particularly if the OS is cheaper than Windows! It would also entice people (such as myself) who are fed up with the increasing system requirements of Windows to look elswhere (like Apple) for their computing needs. Come on Apple, here's your chance to do some good -- so how about it? Just a thought.... Edited February 19, 2007 by SnowHow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eddie Turfboer Posted March 5, 2007 Author Share Posted March 5, 2007 Indeed SnowHow I agree for the most part with your opinions about the increase in hardware requirements for windows. The problem is that people normally do what they think they are supposed to do, so if a customer wants to buy a pc they should have windows, while it is mainstream. Wheter this is the best choice for their needs does not really matter. Currently the most important part of windows being mainstream is the compatibility with most of the computers world wide. I know current developments of OS X and Linux tend towards compatibility with windows, but it is far from complete. And before it does I do not see why people ("normal people") should create the hassle of changing operating systems. To come back to the system requirements I do fully agree with you. I am currently running an windows 2003 version (hacked for speed inprovements) while xp is running not so well on this laptop (a few years old). Why do I want to run Mac OS X? In my opinion the way OS X threats recources is much better then XP, or windows in general, does. To complete my thoughts they way the os works does also seems to blend with my thoughts on an operatin system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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