zorglub12 Posted February 24, 2007 Share Posted February 24, 2007 I just wondered how many of you guys are using MacOS as their main OS on their PC. I installed 10.4.6, which ran perfectly fine but I didn't use it long enough to know how "pratical" it is to use it daily compared to WinXP for instance. I believe most would dual-boot Windows but do you guys feel confident storing important information in you MacOS partition for instance ? No flamewar intended, just curious how many of you guys jumped the Windows ship for good. Cheerio. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John1232 Posted February 24, 2007 Share Posted February 24, 2007 I have 10.4.7 installed. Ive always kinda hated Windows and Im not that good with linux right now so when I installed mac on my PC in November, I started using it full time as my main OS. I knew about it enough that this transition wasnt really that hard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DiaboliK Posted February 24, 2007 Share Posted February 24, 2007 windows free other than gaming since october '05. (and 5 hacintosh's since) sure 10.4.1 thru 10.4.3 were a little buggy but that didnt stop my determination i guess that why im still around. -DiaboliK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frizbot Posted February 24, 2007 Share Posted February 24, 2007 OS X is my main OS. I can't imagine life without it. Granted, its running on a G4. I'm typing this in Firefox on Windows2003R2 since the G4 is slow. Its why I'm into OS X86. It runs on two of my computers, but one is nForce4 and has poor SATA support, and the other doesn't support the GMA900 and speedstep well enough to be usable in the environment (it has to be quiet). I'll build a machine! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrbig Posted February 24, 2007 Share Posted February 24, 2007 (edited) me too, os x is my main os, a never come back to windows... i love os x! Edited February 24, 2007 by mrbig Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erbic Posted February 24, 2007 Share Posted February 24, 2007 (edited) I used 10.4.7 for about three weeks, then got frustrated because I couldn't make my SoundBlaster card work or get QE/CI on my ATI Radeon X850. So I bought a Macbook Pro! OSX KICKS ASS. I only use Windows for the occasional game, plus a Warcraft III chat bot which runs in Parallels. Edited February 24, 2007 by ErBiC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supernovafan Posted February 24, 2007 Share Posted February 24, 2007 I installed OS X around November last year and since then I use it about 90% of the time, even though some of it still doesn't work properly. I also boot up Windows XP and Linux on my PC, but OS X is by far the most stable of the three. Go figure, the PC was designed for Windows, but OS X just runs better. The next machine I buy will be a MAC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dtflick Posted February 24, 2007 Share Posted February 24, 2007 I have been running JaS 10.4. on my Dell Dimension 4550 for about a week now. I bought a Macbook C2D about 2 months ago, and have never looked back. If I couldn't have installed OSX on my Dell, it would still be sitting downstairs collecting dust. I am working on another Hackintosh as we speak, considering the wonderful results I have had so far. OSX is the only OS for me. I will never go back to winblows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WiZMaC Posted February 24, 2007 Share Posted February 24, 2007 I am using Vista Ultimate x64 as my main OS / Hackintosh as my second OS for now ... I'm waiting on apple to release their newest macbooks/pros with intel's latest chipset and proc santa rosa/merom for mobile computing - can't wait!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SnowHow Posted February 24, 2007 Share Posted February 24, 2007 I started with 10.4.6 (then upgraded to 10.4.7 Server just to see if it could be done) as a dual boot with XP. I am sold on MacOS, but I can't dump Windows yet because the rest of my equipment doesn't support SSE2, SSE3 (too old). Whenever I manage to upgrade my equipment, I'm dumping Windows for good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prawker Posted February 24, 2007 Share Posted February 24, 2007 Started off with 10.4.6, but ever since 10.4.8, OS X has been my main OS, i only keep Windows on here for the parents and those rare occasions that i would need it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrmgic Posted February 24, 2007 Share Posted February 24, 2007 I'm using OS X as my main OS right now. Windows no longer exists on my system, once they got the nforce 4 SATA working, I loaded up the kext and formatted my windows drive, so I'm using both in OS X now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Ramm Posted February 24, 2007 Share Posted February 24, 2007 I would most definately get rid of windows if my Mac OS was a little bit more stable. Some things just don't work all of the way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jakedman Posted February 24, 2007 Share Posted February 24, 2007 I just ordered a custom built PC from NewEgg based solely on the HCL for OSx86 10.4.8 When it get's here tuesday, I'm dropping Windows and never looking back. [Can't wait till next year, when I get my Macbook Pro for college.] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragonheart Posted February 24, 2007 Share Posted February 24, 2007 i've been using OSx86 since last year as my primary OS and have not have any problems and I will not go back to windows. I have parallel for all those windows only applications which I use about once every 3 months. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adriandkicks Posted February 24, 2007 Share Posted February 24, 2007 Been Windoze free since 10.4.1 first got hacked!!!! Never looked back. Granted I have many macs here too. The speed boost from my MDD 1.25GHZ to my current Pentium D was MASSIVE to say the least. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
39thRonin Posted February 24, 2007 Share Posted February 24, 2007 Like DiaboliK, I too started this trek near the beginning. From my first 6Gb Deadmoo install to the 10.4.8 I'm currently running, I come to truly enjoy this OS. At first I did the same sort of stuff most new folks here do - carve out just enough disk to install the OS - not much more. I tried just about every dual-boot scheme used here. And then one day, I realized that I'd not booted my Windoze partition for over 3 months... Over time, I've found that this hacked, unsupported, non-standard OS is so much smoother, SO much more stable, and so much of a joy to use that I've moved completely off M$. Now I have over 2Tb of Mac Disk space - internal SATAs, external USB & Firewire - and it all just works. Other than the times when I've just done some really boneheaded thing, I've never had a crash, never lost any data, and never had that sickly feeling in the pit of my stomach I always have when using a M$ product. As a long time UNIX user (back to when SunOS was BSD-based), I feel right at home with MacOS - lots of power which is slightly below the surface. I've come to really appreciate the amount of thought & work that has gone into the creation of this OS. It is without a doubt the finest user environment I've ever used... Do I own a "real" Mac yet? No, but my next computer will be one of the next-gen Mac Pros. I seriously doubt I'll ever willingly use a M$ Windoze product again... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macbrush Posted February 24, 2007 Share Posted February 24, 2007 I used to be a Mac person, since the good old Macintosh II era. I sort of gave up when System 8 was still around and System 9 was still new, for the fact that price of PC hardwares dropped like there is no tomorrow, you can always pick up some still-very-fast PC hardwares which are just one or two generation behind for a huge bargain. I purchased an iBook 2 years ago, and I use it for all of my online business and financial logins for that a lot less people are interested to hack because of small installation base. You can imagine how delightful I am now, running the latest Mac OS X on a IBM Thinkcentre which only cost me something like USD$50.00 from a liquidation auction! And yes, OS X is my main OS now! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted February 24, 2007 Share Posted February 24, 2007 On my PowerBook Mac OS is main OS, well I never put another... On my PC main OS is XP with VMs of Win98, Linux, Mac OS, and even XP, plus natively Mac OS X for testing purposes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zorglub12 Posted February 24, 2007 Author Share Posted February 24, 2007 Guys, thanks all for your feedback. I got a copy of Mac OS 10.4.8 (Jas's) since my post and I must say things have improved a lot since 10.4.6 since I now have Quartz Extreme for my NVidia display card. Nearly all the programs I use in Windows have an equivalent in MacOSX now, I wish TrueCrypt (disk encryption) was there but they're supposedely working on it. I'm more of a Linux guy personally so I'm not yet familiar with applications available but I often find some very cool ones, especially in the open source camp, I even found an app to connect to my Zen Vision:M, supposed to be compatible only with WinXP. Hope I'll be as brave as you guys and definitely do the switch as well. Thanks all for your enlightment. Cheerio. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Proteo Posted February 24, 2007 Share Posted February 24, 2007 Well... I've been in the Windows-to-Mac emulation scene since 1999... after that I even used PearPC for a while... and of course OS X became my main OS since 10.4.1. When first version of Parallels was released, I finally cleaned up my Windows partition. Since then, in my hard drive Windows exists only as a 6 gb disk image, just in case. I'd never go back to that hell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schweppes Posted February 24, 2007 Share Posted February 24, 2007 I use OS X as my main OS since 10.4.8 (nov 2006) Its very fast and i use Parallels for use Windows without restart. My Hackintosh is 100% working (also sleep, sound output & input, CI & QE...! ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zu1u Posted February 24, 2007 Share Posted February 24, 2007 I've been shunning windows ever since 10.4.1 got my attention.. now that it's gone so far with qe/ci and all that i don't even use windows for a quick game [i can do it on my hackintosh ], with that in mind screw winders and hooray for osx86, i plan on buying a real mac as well [saving up the pennies ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrmgic Posted February 24, 2007 Share Posted February 24, 2007 Once I can buy a real mac, I'll probably put windows back on this machine for gaming purposes and just use my future macbook pro as my primary machine.. it would be faster than this rig anyway at the moment. I'm saving the money and waiting for them to come out with Leopard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
merccat Posted February 25, 2007 Share Posted February 25, 2007 I've been using MacOS as my primary OS for about a month now. I'm running 10.4.8 and loving it. Just yesterday I removed Parallels along with the windows disk image as I had gone into windows a whole one time since installing it. The OS is fast to boot, fast to accomplish tasks, clean, simple, and things just work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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