matty Posted August 25, 2005 Share Posted August 25, 2005 My Dell Latitude D600 boots quite nicely and quickly - and it's only got 256MB of RAM to boot. It's to the desktop in under 30 seconds, and that's with the login prompt included. Now if there was some way to use the whole 18GB drive as HFS+ instead of just a 6GB HFS+ drive and a 12GB FAT32 drive, I'd be in heaven. The only thing that doesn't work on it is the built-in wireless. Just get some OS X supported card instead. Its PCMCIA type II slot can take most of them. Oh, and it's confusing to use Alt for Command, Windows for Option, and Control for... well, control. But you get used to it soon enough. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> You can use the full 18 as a hfs drive you wont be able to see it from windows though Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/492-best-osx86-laptop-notebook/page/2/#findComment-7178 Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnybluejeans Posted August 25, 2005 Share Posted August 25, 2005 a decent iBook/PowerBook can be had for about the same price as a perfectly compatible x86 laptop <{POST_SNAPBACK}> It can? My Pentium-M 2ghz with 1Gb of RAM ran $1200. 14" Widescreen, 60gb harddrive, etc etc etc. At $1200 on the Apple side of things I could pick up a 1.4 Ghz G4 with 512Mb of RAM.. My Pentium-M smokes that G4 hands down. And it can dual boot OSX and Windows. ; ) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/492-best-osx86-laptop-notebook/page/2/#findComment-7189 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattb Posted August 25, 2005 Share Posted August 25, 2005 It can? My Pentium-M 2ghz with 1Gb of RAM ran $1200. 14" Widescreen, 60gb harddrive, etc etc etc. At $1200 on the Apple side of things I could pick up a 1.4 Ghz G4 with 512Mb of RAM.. My Pentium-M smokes that G4 hands down. And it can dual boot OSX and Windows. ; ) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> yeah it can, because that iBook probably runs OSX just as well as the PC lappy does (and the laptop was how much before rebates?), and, lets just face it, dual booting with Windows is just a waste of good HDD space Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/492-best-osx86-laptop-notebook/page/2/#findComment-7203 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyrana Posted August 25, 2005 Share Posted August 25, 2005 And lets not forget there is no fully functional wireless available on x86 as of yet. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/492-best-osx86-laptop-notebook/page/2/#findComment-7218 Share on other sites More sharing options...
KENNYB Posted August 26, 2005 Share Posted August 26, 2005 It can? My Pentium-M 2ghz with 1Gb of RAM ran $1200. 14" Widescreen, 60gb harddrive, etc etc etc. At $1200 on the Apple side of things I could pick up a 1.4 Ghz G4 with 512Mb of RAM.. My Pentium-M smokes that G4 hands down. And it can dual boot OSX and Windows. ; ) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> It's funny that i just got a Thinkpad T-40 used for 450. I sold my old powerbook g4 for 400 so in the end the T-40 upgrade only costed my 50 bucks. T40: 1.5 GHz P-M 2 GB RAM 40 GB HD Docking station Only a Radeon 7500, but still QE capable. I'm not used to QE anyway since my G4 didn't support it, but for a 50 investment it's worth it. Not the fastest thing around but sure beats the pants off of my old powerbook. OS X just loves RAM. The best part is that most of my configuration was supported instantly by OS X. Only wireless access will be a problem. It even reboots properly! My desktop A64/NF3 will always hang when rebooting OS X. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/492-best-osx86-laptop-notebook/page/2/#findComment-7545 Share on other sites More sharing options...
clebin Posted August 28, 2005 Share Posted August 28, 2005 And, my Compaq NC6000 works just fine (aside from wireless). No QE or anything but I can run my Mobility 9600 at 1400x1050x32 (VESA of course). Hello, You say that your ATI 9600 runs at 1400x1050x32. What are the steps to do that? (I can't run only at 1280x1024x32) Thanks Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/492-best-osx86-laptop-notebook/page/2/#findComment-8633 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyrana Posted August 28, 2005 Share Posted August 28, 2005 Hello, You say that your ATI 9600 runs at 1400x1050x32. What are the steps to do that? (I can't run only at 1280x1024x32) Thanks Nothing, it just worked like this out of the box. At the bootup screen I type "Graphics Mode"="1400x1050x32", but that is all. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/492-best-osx86-laptop-notebook/page/2/#findComment-8681 Share on other sites More sharing options...
clebin Posted August 30, 2005 Share Posted August 30, 2005 Nothing, it just worked like this out of the box. At the bootup screen I type "Graphics Mode"="1400x1050x32", but that is all. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> OK. It's strange because when I type ?video at boot time, It shows all the valid VESA modes and 1400x1050 is listed but when I type "Graphics Mode"="1400x1050x32", it's ignored. That's not logical! So I was searching some reason or step I missed. Perhaps is it the config of the screen in OS X? OSX think my screen can't support this mode... My hardware is the following: Dell Inspiron 8600, ATI mobile 9600 Pro 128 MB. OSX works perfectly (exepted for the video driver obviously). Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/492-best-osx86-laptop-notebook/page/2/#findComment-9652 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sack Posted August 30, 2005 Share Posted August 30, 2005 OSX86 runs well on my Inspiron 8200, and it's an interesting thing to play around with, but honestly; there's no wintel notebook which could compete with an original Powerbook or even IBook, it need's more than Tiger hooked on a powerful CPU to become a Mac. There's also more, one should consider when talking about OSX86 as your main OS on a PC. Deadmoo & Co. did this for fun, to see how far it'll evolve I think, and that's how it should be taken. It's illegal, no doubt, many people don't care about this, though. With original OSX there're app. 10 systemupdates plus one main update/year (not to mention security updates). 10.4.2 is up to date, 10.4.3 is about to come in september, 10.5 Leopard is scheduled at the time original Intelmacs will come to the masses. Play around with it, laugh about vista even more and buy a real (PPC or Intel) Mac sooner or later, that's what I'd advice. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/492-best-osx86-laptop-notebook/page/2/#findComment-9689 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nevermind1331 Posted February 16, 2006 Share Posted February 16, 2006 my hp zv6015 has pretty much everything working perfect, even wireless. tho ill admit it to some editing plist files. you will be stuck at 1024x768, no way around this from what ive seen. but its a powerhouse, xbench scored near 60. highly recommended. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/492-best-osx86-laptop-notebook/page/2/#findComment-57491 Share on other sites More sharing options...
R. Bear Helms Posted February 17, 2006 Share Posted February 17, 2006 Laptops are always pricey. I donno if there's a cheap enough one that runs both XP and OS X well. I know that for SOME price, you can get a damned incredible laptop that will be hot in both arenas... that Acer with the Core Duo inside. Apparently any problems with the OS X support of this laptop are nothing major, and the dual core is supported by XP Home (and I dunno if XP Pro does a better job or not with 2 core systems). If I were selecting a laptop on the cheap, I'd be driving myself crazy trying to find ICH7, CPU with SSE3, NX, PAE, a Radeon chipset, and an ATA drive with (preferably) internal USB connected keyboard and pointing device. Something would be amiss. The Acer likely is PS/2 connections for kb and mouse, but someone got it working. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/492-best-osx86-laptop-notebook/page/2/#findComment-57539 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyrana Posted February 17, 2006 Share Posted February 17, 2006 Obviously at this time, the best one is the Macbook Pro. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/492-best-osx86-laptop-notebook/page/2/#findComment-57550 Share on other sites More sharing options...
lit Posted February 20, 2006 Share Posted February 20, 2006 have anyone gotten 10.4.4 on their laptop and everything is working (WiFi, LAN, USB ports)? :censored2: :censored2: :censored2: :censored2: :censored2: Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/492-best-osx86-laptop-notebook/page/2/#findComment-58598 Share on other sites More sharing options...
alicheusz Posted February 20, 2006 Share Posted February 20, 2006 IBM T42, with 1.5G Pentuim M,768M memory.After patched SSE3->SSE2, it runs well. (OK, Safari crashes sometimes) The XBench score:28.4 The most terrible part of xbench test: Disk test->Random->Uncached write[4kb block], I got only 4.84 ! You should look at HDD speed up, that's discussed on this forum http://forum.osx86project.org/index.php?sh...pic=517&hl=UDMA Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/492-best-osx86-laptop-notebook/page/2/#findComment-58868 Share on other sites More sharing options...
lit Posted February 20, 2006 Share Posted February 20, 2006 anyone try installing on a NEW laptop that has SSE3 on it ? with no trouble? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/492-best-osx86-laptop-notebook/page/2/#findComment-58964 Share on other sites More sharing options...
maloventevil Posted February 21, 2006 Share Posted February 21, 2006 anyone try installing on a NEW laptop that has SSE3 on it ?with no trouble? anyone tried installing with an IBM T60P? I'll be giving it a try when mine arrives! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/492-best-osx86-laptop-notebook/page/2/#findComment-59588 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cctop123 Posted March 2, 2006 Share Posted March 2, 2006 The "popular DVD" going aroung made it easy for me to install 10.4.3 on my Thinkpad R50p. I had to do only two things: enabling a/b/g-WLAN (using drivers from the 10.4.5 update) and changing the screen resolution to 1600x1200. All of my fellows could not beleive their eyes how fast OS X runs on 1.7 GHz Pentium M. What stays unsolved till now is the IBM/Lenovo caused problem of missing Windows-Keys meaning missing APPLE-Keys. So i have to use PopChar to produce my "@"-sign Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/492-best-osx86-laptop-notebook/page/2/#findComment-67021 Share on other sites More sharing options...
m1tra Posted March 2, 2006 Share Posted March 2, 2006 anyone try installing on a NEW laptop that has SSE3 on it ?with no trouble? Check these out: Asus A6Ja - Core Duo CPU, X1600 video card, etc, almost fully matching the MacBook Pro Acer 4202 - Core Duo CPU, GMA950 video card, amlost fully matching the Mac Mini Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/492-best-osx86-laptop-notebook/page/2/#findComment-67036 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azurael Posted March 2, 2006 Share Posted March 2, 2006 If you're gonna buy a machine with specs that alost match the MacBook Pro, the price is gonna be within a hair of the Apple machine, so why not just buy a real one and wait 'till somebody gets Windows running on it (inevitable, I'd say... Linux already works.) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/492-best-osx86-laptop-notebook/page/2/#findComment-67081 Share on other sites More sharing options...
m1tra Posted March 2, 2006 Share Posted March 2, 2006 If you're gonna buy a machine with specs that alost match the MacBook Pro, the price is gonna be within a hair of the Apple machine, so why not just buy a real one and wait 'till somebody gets Windows running on it (inevitable, I'd say... Linux already works.) Very unfortunately it's not. In Germany the price difference is about 700 eur. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/492-best-osx86-laptop-notebook/page/2/#findComment-67114 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dutchman_007 Posted March 2, 2006 Share Posted March 2, 2006 Very unfortunately it's not. In Germany the price difference is about 700 eur. I'm not sure about Germany... but here in Holland it's roughly about 600 euro's. A lot of money for a similar system... Of course Apple has (in most cases) a better design in laptop and the difference in os, which nowdays is not a big problem anymore... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/492-best-osx86-laptop-notebook/page/2/#findComment-67414 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyrax78 Posted March 3, 2006 Share Posted March 3, 2006 OSX works flawlessly on my Sony Vaio VGN-FS730, mainly because the hardware matches very closely with the dev machines. VAIOs are also super slim looking and Xbrite screens are amazing The only outstanding problem is the wireless. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/492-best-osx86-laptop-notebook/page/2/#findComment-67573 Share on other sites More sharing options...
slau98006 Posted March 4, 2006 Share Posted March 4, 2006 Take a look at Dell Inpiron 1505 - Jusk picked up a Duo Core 1.83 w/ 80 GB SATA HD, 512 M Ram for under 1000. Almost 50% off MacPro Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/492-best-osx86-laptop-notebook/page/2/#findComment-68251 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colonel Posted March 6, 2006 Share Posted March 6, 2006 I think the Apple Macbook Pro would be the best Intel-Based Mac Laptop that you could make. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/492-best-osx86-laptop-notebook/page/2/#findComment-70210 Share on other sites More sharing options...
EgoDeath Posted March 7, 2006 Share Posted March 7, 2006 I got the Acer 4202 I love it! only problem is noo mass storage devices... (and wifi, but that kinda go's without saying now) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/492-best-osx86-laptop-notebook/page/2/#findComment-70264 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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