Bartboy919 Posted April 26, 2006 Share Posted April 26, 2006 I kinda made this topic so that people could address potential issues with putting vista on a mac. I personaly belive its a great idea! but a few things have me worried. NO CABLE CARD: unless they put a cable card into the powermacs when leopard comes out I'm screwed when it comes to the media center experience. Yes its true that I could use a USB one, but it may be a tad pricy for an HD one. DX10? NOT LIKELY: This one of the things that has me down the most. The Video cards put into Macs may be powerfull as hell but its worthless to DX10 games if it doesnt work with the API. So does this mean no Halo 2 for you? maybe for a little while, but im sure Apple will put some good DX10 card about 6 months after Vista comes out. SECURITY: Of course none of the Enthusists here will have this problem, but because of people ranting that macs get no viruses, Ext. normal users may thing they found the holy grail and may lower their defenses and belive that there windows machine will be virus resistant. 64 BITNESS: Microsoft had said that they will move for 32 bit to 64 bit in the vista timeframe. Every one knows that opening your mac could screw it up and voids your "Apple Care". So does this mean that when the 64 bit era arives that we will get left in the dust? yeah possibly, but then again, wouldnt that a nice time to see the innards of a mac? MEDIA CENTER: I know, very easy fix but I had to bring it up. As far as I know The Media Center Remote does not work with the mac unless you have a USB dongle. well thats my 2 cents, les hear yours Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/16044-vista-on-apple-hardware-limits/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
raduma Posted April 27, 2006 Share Posted April 27, 2006 I kinda made this topic so that people could address potential issues with putting vista on a mac. I personaly belive its a great idea! but a few things have me worried. NO CABLE CARD: unless they put a cable card into the powermacs when leopard comes out I'm screwed. Yes its true that I could use a USB one, but it may be a tad pricy for an HD one. DX10? NOT LIKELY: This one of the things that has me down the most. The Video cards put into Macs may be powerfull as hell but its worthless to DX10 games if it doesnt work with the API. So does this mean no Halo 2 for you? maybe for a little while, but im sure Apple will put some good DX10 card about 6 months after Vista comes out. SECURITY: Of course none of the Enthusists here will have this problem, but because of people ranting that macs get no viruses, Ext. normal users may thing they found the holy grail and may lower their defenses. 64 BITNESS: Microsoft had said that they will move for 32 bit to 64 bit in the vista timeframe. Every one knows that opening your mac could screw it up and voids your "Apple Care". So does this mean that when the 64 bit era arives that we will get left in the dust? yeah possibly, but then again, wouldnt that a nice time to see the innards of a mac? MEDIA CENTER: I know, very easy fix but I had to bring it up. As far as I know The Media Center Remote does not work with the mac unless you have a USB dongle. well thats my 2 cents, les hear yours cable card: what does that have to do with vista? dx10: it works already. security: again how is this specific to vista on macs? 64 bits: it will be at least 5-6+ years before 32 bit is obsolete. longer on consumer machines. remote: wait for drivers. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/16044-vista-on-apple-hardware-limits/#findComment-104132 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rogabean Posted April 27, 2006 Share Posted April 27, 2006 I kinda made this topic so that people could address potential issues with putting vista on a mac. I personaly belive its a great idea! but a few things have me worried. NO CABLE CARD: unless they put a cable card into the powermacs when leopard comes out I'm screwed. Yes its true that I could use a USB one, but it may be a tad pricy for an HD one. DX10? NOT LIKELY: This one of the things that has me down the most. The Video cards put into Macs may be powerfull as hell but its worthless to DX10 games if it doesnt work with the API. So does this mean no Halo 2 for you? maybe for a little while, but im sure Apple will put some good DX10 card about 6 months after Vista comes out. SECURITY: Of course none of the Enthusists here will have this problem, but because of people ranting that macs get no viruses, Ext. normal users may thing they found the holy grail and may lower their defenses. 64 BITNESS: Microsoft had said that they will move for 32 bit to 64 bit in the vista timeframe. Every one knows that opening your mac could screw it up and voids your "Apple Care". So does this mean that when the 64 bit era arives that we will get left in the dust? yeah possibly, but then again, wouldnt that a nice time to see the innards of a mac? MEDIA CENTER: I know, very easy fix but I had to bring it up. As far as I know The Media Center Remote does not work with the mac unless you have a USB dongle. well thats my 2 cents, les hear yours You know the remote issue doesn't make much sense to me... why isn't it working? The remote works with media center installations on other hardware right? Why wouldn't work with the mac hardware with windows? (you are referring to the MS Media Center Remote right?) it's a usb device with windows drivers... i understand why things like the video card required special drivers as it's got a special firmware for the macs... but the remote i would think would work with current windows driver... unless i am mistaken.. which i very well could be very mistaken. just thinking logically. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/16044-vista-on-apple-hardware-limits/#findComment-104158 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bartboy919 Posted May 2, 2006 Author Share Posted May 2, 2006 You know the remote issue doesn't make much sense to me... why isn't it working? The remote works with media center installations on other hardware right? Why wouldn't work with the mac hardware with windows? (you are referring to the MS Media Center Remote right?) it's a usb device with windows drivers... i understand why things like the video card required special drivers as it's got a special firmware for the macs... but the remote i would think would work with current windows driver... unless i am mistaken.. which i very well could be very mistaken. just thinking logically. Yes, I was referring to the media center edition in alot og thoes things above Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/16044-vista-on-apple-hardware-limits/#findComment-106215 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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