Westbrook Posted December 25, 2006 Share Posted December 25, 2006 OK, I am sick of Windows. I've had it. The endless security patches, the endless reboots, the teettering instabilities, the endless trolling of the registry for stale and and malignant entries, the endless hardware and software incompatabilities. Linux is out of the question, for many of the same reasons above. Endless kernel patches, endless kernel rebuilds, endless religious battles between the Debbianites and the Red-Hatties. A truly arcturian landscape. I wish to surrender to the forces of OS X. However, I have a big investment in hardware and cannot afford to buy all new hardware. With nine children at home, we have five desktops and two laptops - all of them various flavors of the intel/AMD x86 architechure. One of them is even a 64 bit Sempron. Is it possible for me to install OS X on my existing hardware? Any of it? Because, if there is, I would VERY MUCH like to go out and buy a family pack of OS X and do away with the mire of confusion that is Windows once and for all. . Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/36757-is-there-a-ray-of-hope/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacRetail Posted December 25, 2006 Share Posted December 25, 2006 (edited) You can't just buy MacOS X in the Apple shop, because the official OSX-box only supports Mac-computers, not PC's. You will have to download OSX86 -illegaly- from the net. OSX86 is OSX hacked to run on normal PC's. OSX86 might work on some of your PC's. The application CPU-Z can tell you if your CPU supports only SSE2 or aditionly SSE3. If your processor doesn't support SSE2, OSX86 will not work. That's the basic requirement. But it's not sure if OSX86 will support the other hardware in your computer, like your video card, your sound card... You might get some things working using patches you can find on this forum, but not all. OSX86 won't be easy. Do you know you can buy a new Intel Mac mini for $629? That's the easy way. Edited December 25, 2006 by MacRetail Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/36757-is-there-a-ray-of-hope/#findComment-261353 Share on other sites More sharing options...
wow Posted December 25, 2006 Share Posted December 25, 2006 sse2 or sse3 to be exact. the prics i see sometime mentioned not only in this topic are what i call fake prices like that $999 iMac. Why, becuase most people have nothing on a barebone mac. To get it to work like it should, it shuld at least have more memory 1024mb minimum, dvd burner. So the prices get a little higher after upgrading to "normal" mac. Just my opnion ofcourse Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/36757-is-there-a-ray-of-hope/#findComment-261437 Share on other sites More sharing options...
-TiLT- Posted December 25, 2006 Share Posted December 25, 2006 There are Linux-Distributions that do all the patching etc. in the background without restarts. But it´s not the gentoo way, more like beeing on suse, that is slightly like beeing on windows but with *nix flavours ;-) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/36757-is-there-a-ray-of-hope/#findComment-261539 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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