viperjp Posted April 4, 2006 Share Posted April 4, 2006 Dear OS X86 Community, I don't know if this is the right place to post this kind of message but if it's not please feel free to move it. I just want to share with you something that came to my mind recently. I've always been a Windows user and now that I had the oportunity to test Mac OS X in my PC I was simply delighted. Ofcourse we now that there are still some issued mostly related to device drivers but more or less we can run operating system. In my case, except for some mouse graphical glitches and no MIDI-In, everything is working fine (Accelerated Sound, Accelerated Graphics, etc); I can do all the things I used to do in Windows but in a more confortable, performant and attractive way. Obviously I would leave Microsoft platform and turn Apple's for doing my work.... but... WHAT IF THIS POSSIBILITY OF *TRYING* MAC OS X IN OUR PCs IT'S JUST A WAY OF APPLE TO GAIN MORE CUSTOMERS NOW???? I mean, what if in the near future Apple adds a mechanism that simply makes it impossible for us to run the operating system in our PCs??? I would certainly not buy a Mac but I'm sure there will be some guys who will... I really wouldn't like this to come true... it's just a thought and I feel it would be nice to share it with you all. I don't want this message to be that long but if you have some sort of opinion please feel free to share it here Best Regards, Joaquín. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/13922-what-if-this-is-only-a-dream/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
MK500 Posted April 4, 2006 Share Posted April 4, 2006 I hear what you are saying. Please take no offense, but it's hard for me to understand your logic. Here's what I'm hearing you say: After using OS X on your hackintosh, you: - can do all the things I used to do in Windows but in a more confortable, performant and attractive way - would leave Microsoft platform and turn Apple's for doing my work But then you go on to say: - I would certainly not buy a Mac If Apple's way of doing things in OS X seems clearly superior to Windows for you, as you seem to say, why would you never buy a Mac? Is it just the price issue? In some cases, the price differential is almost nil, or only a few hundred dollars. I'm trying to understand why you would "certainly not buy a Mac". I understand that the current Intel hardware offerings from Apple are a bit sparse, but this is going to change dramatically throughout the next 6 months as Apple likely releases desktop systems, a sub notebook, less expensive single core notebooks, etc. I like my hacked Intel box as much as the next guy, but still think Apple's hardware is pretty great. I'm just curious as to what makes you say you would "certainly" not buy a Mac? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/13922-what-if-this-is-only-a-dream/#findComment-89004 Share on other sites More sharing options...
powrslave Posted April 4, 2006 Share Posted April 4, 2006 yeah this doesn't belong here Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/13922-what-if-this-is-only-a-dream/#findComment-89008 Share on other sites More sharing options...
chick Posted April 4, 2006 Share Posted April 4, 2006 Intel macs are not so great for the moment. There are problems with the imac screens, heating and noise problems with the macbook pro ... I'd be quite frustrated to buy overpriced beta hardware ! But i think i will buy a mac later, when they are reliable, mostly because i want a fully functional OSX. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/13922-what-if-this-is-only-a-dream/#findComment-89012 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyman Posted April 4, 2006 Share Posted April 4, 2006 I understand viperjp's thought. I just wonder why it took you so long to come to this conclusion. Of course Apple gains experience from our attempts to run Mac OS X on our PCs. They learn from us and strengthen the measures to protect their OS with every new version and certainly they work on something which is much smarter and harder to crack than what had to be cracked to run 10.4.x, some new copy protection which will come with Leopard and prevent PC users to run OS X on their machines - at least for a certain time, because I don't think there will ever be a 100% copy protection. But there's a point where it's not worth anymore to spend the time being on cracking something which is probably already outdated or just a crippled piece of software. Still there will be geeks who try it just to show that it's possible. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/13922-what-if-this-is-only-a-dream/#findComment-89034 Share on other sites More sharing options...
viperjp Posted April 4, 2006 Author Share Posted April 4, 2006 I'm just curious as to what makes you say you would "certainly" not buy a Mac? The point here is price and community accpetance. I live in Uruguay (South America) and Mac prices here are really really high. Due to that, among other things, it hasn't received enough acceptance in our society (yet?). Moreover I hate the idea to be bound to certain hardware in order to run software. I want to be free to choose the components I want my computer to be built with (this CPU, this Video Card, etc, etc.). Hope I'm clear anyway... remeber this is just my opinion! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/13922-what-if-this-is-only-a-dream/#findComment-89058 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MK500 Posted April 6, 2006 Share Posted April 6, 2006 The point here is price and community accpetance. I live in Uruguay (South America) and Mac prices here are really really high. Due to that, among other things, it hasn't received enough acceptance in our society (yet?). Moreover I hate the idea to be bound to certain hardware in order to run software. I want to be free to choose the components I want my computer to be built with (this CPU, this Video Card, etc, etc.). Hope I'm clear anyway... remeber this is just my opinion! Ah, I see. Thanks for responding. Sometimes I forget how fortunate I am to have such good product pricing here in the US. Good luck with your hackintosh. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/13922-what-if-this-is-only-a-dream/#findComment-89949 Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeCornutier Posted April 6, 2006 Share Posted April 6, 2006 There's something I really don't get about Apple's strategy; intel macs will now legally run XP (http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2006/apr/05bootcamp.html) but still OSX on pc is illegal. Why does Apple open to windows, virtually making it even more dominant os? Won't this strategy reduce apple to just a hardware company such as acer, toshiba, dell and so on? An intel mac running XP only has a nicer box and nothing else, compared to a pc. XP conquers macs and OSX becomes not essential to run a mac... this sounds very strange. if Vista keeps up to its promises it will be the end for OSX. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/13922-what-if-this-is-only-a-dream/#findComment-90550 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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