Sony Vaio VGC-RB30

[olinboy1]

I work at a Circuit City store in California and have been following the

OSx86 news and happenings since the begining. I had installed the OS

on my home machine (a SSE2 P4 with a Radeon 9800 card) and thought it

was cool for experiments sake, but not having full support was annoying.

 

I saw an open box (aka: customer return) Sony desktop one afternoon

and noticed that it had the perfect guts for a great "developer kit" machine.

Since it was already an open box PC, there wouldn't be any restocking

fee and I could "rent" the computer for the next 14 days and then get my

money back if I didn't want to keep it. True, it did cost me a bit more than

a home build (about $850 out the door), but it was much cleaner and easier.

 

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I made myself a patched developer kit DVD, rounded up a copy of XP SP2,

downloaded the newest version of CentOS, and before I knew it, I have a

great triple-booting system. Tiger runs with all Quartz Extreme, CoreGrphcs,

LAN, Sound, Rosetta (CS2, Dreamweaver, iTunes 5), you name it. It would

be nice if Shapeshifter would run too, but I guess beggars can't be choosers.

 

I go to Art School and work on sweet G5's all day but haven't taken the time

to scrape together the cash for one of my own (yet) this is definately a fun

toy for now. I hope the real intelmac machines can come down a little in price!

[mac_newbie]

Hi olinboy1,

 

I'm quoting your message and have some questions:

 

I made myself a patched developer kit DVD, rounded up a copy of XP SP2,

downloaded the newest version of CentOS, and before I knew it, I have a

great triple-booting system. Tiger runs with all Quartz Extreme, CoreGrphcs,

LAN, Sound, Rosetta (CS2, Dreamweaver, iTunes 5), you name it. It would

be nice if Shapeshifter would run too, but I guess beggars can't be choosers.

 

Its nice to hear that Quartz Extreme and CoreGraphics works great for you. Can you please check whether you can run iDVD, iMovie HD or DVDSP or FCP as well? including firewire capture and rendering?

 

Rgds.

[olinboy1]

Hi olinboy1,

 

I'm quoting your message and have some questions:

Its nice to hear that Quartz Extreme and CoreGraphics works great for you. Can you please check whether you can run iDVD, iMovie HD or DVDSP or FCP as well? including firewire capture and rendering?

 

Rgds.

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I don't have a complete download of any of those yet, but I will let you know.