loonymonkey Posted March 11, 2007 Share Posted March 11, 2007 (edited) Do you use OSX86 as your primary OS ? Has it been stable? How many lock-ups/crashses do you get weekly? Edited March 11, 2007 by loonymonkey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karmatose Posted March 12, 2007 Share Posted March 12, 2007 Do you use OSX86 as your primary OS ? Has it been stable? How many lock-ups/crashses do you get weekly? Incredibly stable. No crashes, ever. Unless they're my fault. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madnoh Posted March 12, 2007 Share Posted March 12, 2007 Yes, I do. Stable? Hell, yeah. Lockups & crashes? None since I installed in Nov '06. I'm lovin' it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slayher Posted March 12, 2007 Share Posted March 12, 2007 I was having some issues with minor little app crashes and stuff but nothing big. I wanted to resize my partitions so i ended up copying ALL the kexts in Extensions recreating a partition reinstalling 10.4.8 over again and copying my original kexts back to get all my hardware working... Now the system runs great.. much quicker than before and no crashes... I guess all the hacking i was doing to get stuff working got stuff cluttered up. I never boot windows anymore and am loving MACOSX more and more everyday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vipersfate Posted March 12, 2007 Share Posted March 12, 2007 I am as well. The only issues I have are Network (Ethernet) and SATA support (Nforce 410 MCP51). I don't feel like activating windows again, so I just stuck with osx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WaldMeister Posted March 12, 2007 Share Posted March 12, 2007 Also using it as primary, only have had crashes after updating to 10.4.8, but got that solved in about 3 days. Ever since OS X is stable, and up for 6 days now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
faust Posted March 12, 2007 Share Posted March 12, 2007 My system has boot problems (random graphic card initialization failures) but the OSX is so dammed good that I'll never want to fall back to a last century legacy OS called windows. But for me OSX86 is only a transitional first step to a real Mac. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
denied Posted March 12, 2007 Share Posted March 12, 2007 OS X been primary OS on at least half a dozen computers for me (I trade out comps quite a bit). Right now it's the only OS installed on my Vaio TX and my old school Dimension 8200, when it crashes it's pretty clear it was my fault and not the OS. Rock solid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
romjab Posted March 12, 2007 Share Posted March 12, 2007 Id make it my primary os but some applications "quit unexpectedly" when I start them such as chess and iChat, any help would be very much appreciated Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lord_muad_dib Posted March 12, 2007 Share Posted March 12, 2007 primary OS here since nov 06! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ferret-Simpson Posted March 12, 2007 Share Posted March 12, 2007 Oh hell yes! Vista: Useless. Linux: Unmaneagable. (I have yet to see a linux package manager I can stand.) XP TabletPC Edition: Not quite as bad as vista, but still pretty dysfunctional. Mac OS X: Problematic. But every week or so another problem disappears, and "Problematic" is better than any of the others. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Shaun Posted March 13, 2007 Share Posted March 13, 2007 Desktop OS since 2001. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted March 13, 2007 Share Posted March 13, 2007 No, but it increases day by day, until I buy my Mac Pro Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmalm Posted March 13, 2007 Share Posted March 13, 2007 Mac-user since 1989 -> OSx86 user since June -06. And yes, it's my primary OS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hexidecimal Posted March 13, 2007 Share Posted March 13, 2007 Use it as my primary. Only programs I have issues with is Parallels. Which won't install. Shapeshifter wouldn't for a while, installed using the JaS 10.4.8 image and have no issues since. Can't see myself ever having issues, my next system will be a full blown iMac. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hecker Posted March 13, 2007 Share Posted March 13, 2007 Best damn OS Iv'e had. Period. I hope the fix the finder in the next version though. That would be great. hecker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starscr3am Posted March 14, 2007 Share Posted March 14, 2007 Iam running OSX86 Tubgirl 10.4.8 for almost 2 months now and its great! verry stable no lockups see my specs below. It feels like a real mac But slightly better! I was a Mac user 5 years ago and when it broke i had no money for a new system, i had a PPC G4 400, 665Mb ram, 32Mb radeon, 40gbHd, 30Hd, OS 10.2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scannerfm77 Posted March 14, 2007 Share Posted March 14, 2007 I use OS X for my primary OS eventhough I still using XP to watch TV. Too bad OS X doesn't support my TV tuner... sigh.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smileyint Posted March 15, 2007 Share Posted March 15, 2007 I have used osx x86 10.4.6 since Nov '06. Loved it ever since. Never turn back and made Win2k3 secondary. Boot time greatly reduced too. Everything is fast and last but not least very stable. All thanks goes to all who made it possible on a pc platform. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
39thRonin Posted March 15, 2007 Share Posted March 15, 2007 Other than making mistakes during updates, I've never had an app or the OS crash. I use OS X daily at both my home and work - laptop & desktop. I've got sound, ethernet, displays, etc. all working. I'll NEVER put a M$ OS on my machines again... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Puchito Posted March 16, 2007 Share Posted March 16, 2007 (edited) OS for everything... but gaming. That is THE only reason I see to sticking with Winblows. I dunno, I'm conlifcted though, I would absolutely buy a mac for my desktop, if it weren't for the limitations in gaming... that and apple's god-awful hardware. Since that was not an issue for my media center, I went ahead and got a mac mini and an external 500GB harddrive and hooked the {censored} to my TV (beats the hell out of AppleTV, I'll tell you that!) Edited March 16, 2007 by Puchito Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lactobacillus P Posted March 16, 2007 Share Posted March 16, 2007 (edited) OSX and actually my main system still is my G4 1.2Ghz. All the other machines are 'on the side'. I find myself booting OSX on the Asustosh quite a bit, if only to compare it with the G4 and Mini. I've got Prey running on Windows XP and OSX on the Asustosh, performance is similar on both OS'es. The cool thing is that it actually runs (a little choppy) and is playable on the G4 with the Ati 9800Pro AGP graphics card. If you are into retrogaming, I encourage you to try out Richard Bannister's Emulators and Emulator Enhancer. With a logitech Cordeless Rumblepad 2 it is sheer joy. Edited March 16, 2007 by Mark1970 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nargot Posted March 19, 2007 Share Posted March 19, 2007 stable as the real thing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loonymonkey Posted March 19, 2007 Author Share Posted March 19, 2007 Wow. I'm suprised by the results of the poll so far. I thought that installing OSX86 was just a fun weekend project to see if you could get it to work. I finnally got it working great on my SATA drive last week. One of the things that still bugs me thought is security. Since this is a hack, how do we know that the kernel wasn't compromised. I posted a thread about this question, and the people who replied assured me its safe. Still makes me wonder though... Am I just being paranoid? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soündless Posted March 19, 2007 Share Posted March 19, 2007 used it as primary until i got my mbp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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