Soldat Posted March 5, 2006 Share Posted March 5, 2006 Hey all, I have been looking into installing OS X onto an external USB HD that I have since I absolutely love OSX. My computer is an Asus laptop, with 1.86 pentium m, 1gb ram, intel gfx/wireless, etc (915GM chipset iirc). The problem is that it is an SSE2 chip, and I have seen some people posting (not here, on other sites) that OSX without an SSE3 chip is dog-slow, and pointless to even use. I was wondering if this was indeed the case, or if SSE2 chips can handle it without too much of an issue. Also, were I to try the 10.4.5 method that has popped up in the last day or two (basically a pre-patched DVD), is installing to a partition on an external drive doable, or does it have to be an internal drive. Thanks in advance for any help! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/11100-worth-it-without-sse3/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark7714 Posted March 5, 2006 Share Posted March 5, 2006 I can only speak for myself, but SSE2 only is not at all slow. I can do anything I need to do, and even play World of Warcraft. It boots quicker than XP ever did, and I get a higher Xbench than many real macs (of course, not the new intel macs). I'm so happy with it that it's my only boot. So give it a try! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/11100-worth-it-without-sse3/#findComment-69540 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toxic Waste Posted March 6, 2006 Share Posted March 6, 2006 Ditto here - 2.8GHz laptop, but it runs so nicely. Honestly, it feels snappier than XP does... certainly boots a hell of a lot faster. What does THAT tell you? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/11100-worth-it-without-sse3/#findComment-69654 Share on other sites More sharing options...
fireshark Posted March 6, 2006 Share Posted March 6, 2006 Mine boots in 29 seconds. SSE2 proc. The only thing that was actually slowing me down (not anymore!) was the IDE controller. So, domt worry about emulation. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/11100-worth-it-without-sse3/#findComment-69659 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jjoe Posted March 6, 2006 Share Posted March 6, 2006 I got a ASUS laptop too. Mine is M6N with Banias 1.5MHz. So far I can't install 10.4.4 via VMWARE because of my CPU doesn't support "PAE." I would like to give it a try in native install, but I don't have much hope that it would work.... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/11100-worth-it-without-sse3/#findComment-69677 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyrax78 Posted March 6, 2006 Share Posted March 6, 2006 Yeah I'm using a 1.73 ghz P-M, works flawlessly. SSE3 doesn't really come into play unless if you run PPC only programs (right now MS Office is the only one for me). Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/11100-worth-it-without-sse3/#findComment-70031 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclonefr Posted March 6, 2006 Share Posted March 6, 2006 Yeah I'm using a 1.73 ghz P-M, works flawlessly. SSE3 doesn't really come into play unless if you run PPC only programs (right now MS Office is the only one for me). It works fine as well on my system, though games are not as fast as with SSE3 (ie WoW is really faster on Windows in OpenGL than in OSX running SSE2, but still it's playable and impressive for SSE3 emulation). In conclusion, as someone said, Universal Binaries are fine with SSE2 and games that don't use much the CPU like Doom 3 is damn fast even on SSE2 if you have a decent ATI. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/11100-worth-it-without-sse3/#findComment-70113 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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