Shubhanyu Posted January 9, 2009 Share Posted January 9, 2009 Hi ... I have the following two models of Acer in mind. Acer Aspire 4530 and Acer Aspire 4930 I am going to use the laptop for checking mails, word processing, music, occasional movies, gaming (rare). I want to install OS X Leopard on the laptop, to complement my quad core hackintosh desktop computer. I would, however, like to play games, sometimes, and those would be lie GTA 4. I do not want stonking graphic performance, just playable games, low settings would do; since for proper gaming I have my desktop. I would like to know: 1. Which graphic chipset is more compatible with OSX, 2. Which model would be overall more suited for Leopard, 3. What are the implications on battery life for choosing the particular model and the graphic chipset, 4. Anything else that I should know when buying Acer, and specifically these models. One more thing - if not Acer, which laptop is more suited for OSX? For an idea, Acer Aspire 4530 is Rs. 29,000 net. Acer Aspire 4930 is Rs. 34,000 net. Dell Inspiron 1525 Pentium Dual Core model is Rs. 37,000 net, and Dell Inspiron 1525 C2D model comes for a full Rs. 40,000 net. On the Dell website itself, am seeing users reporting problems with touchpad, crappy speaker quality, heat, and battery life. Kindly suggest the best option while maintaining a shoestring budget. No Netbooks, please. Thank you well in advance for reading and replying! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/145698-acer-aspire-4530-or-acer-aspire-4930-india-purchase/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synaesthesia Posted January 9, 2009 Share Posted January 9, 2009 Neither of them is compatible with OS X. If you want to play any games and run OS X, you must get a laptop with an older Intel chipset, and nVidia 8400, 8600 graphics. http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.ph...0.5.2/Portables -> List of working laptops. A great example is the Dell range, some of which use these graphics (Inspiron, XPS) Otherwise, you're stuck with Intel GMA 950 or GMA 3100 graphics, which, yeah, suck for gaming. It may be possible to find a new nvidia 9300M or 9400M based laptop that works, I haven't looked into that though. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/145698-acer-aspire-4530-or-acer-aspire-4930-india-purchase/#findComment-1033531 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shubhanyu Posted January 9, 2009 Author Share Posted January 9, 2009 Meaning even the Nvidia 9100 chipset won't be supported, as in the Acer Aspire 4530? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/145698-acer-aspire-4530-or-acer-aspire-4930-india-purchase/#findComment-1033999 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synaesthesia Posted January 9, 2009 Share Posted January 9, 2009 Not sure. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/145698-acer-aspire-4530-or-acer-aspire-4930-india-purchase/#findComment-1034242 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shubhanyu Posted January 10, 2009 Author Share Posted January 10, 2009 So my best bet would be a Dell Inspiron 1525 with Pentium Dual Core and X3100 ? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/145698-acer-aspire-4530-or-acer-aspire-4930-india-purchase/#findComment-1034697 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick14 Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 You wont be able to plau GTA4 in low with those graficcards Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/145698-acer-aspire-4530-or-acer-aspire-4930-india-purchase/#findComment-1034974 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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