xual Posted June 1, 2007 Share Posted June 1, 2007 Guys I'm new to the whole OSX86 experience. I have an acer aspire 5610 laptop which I'm going to use as a test subject. Can I ask how fast does OSX86 perform compaired to it running on a mac book. Speaking as a software engineer, in theory it should be more or less the same. Its the same intel based hardware, and its probably a less complicated version of the OSX. I've read some perfmormance tests on other threads but with no point of reference it doesn't make much sense to me. I'm a bit nervous about it all but if it works I will be thrilled. Just am anxious about the thought of blundering during the process Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hackintom Posted June 1, 2007 Share Posted June 1, 2007 OSX86 performs very well compared to a genuine Mac OS X ! Lot of us have compared their iHack to a Mac Pro, search the forum using google instead than the search function of the forum because it sucks. I don't know what your Acer 5610 has in his guts, but if he has a supported video card, SSE3 (if you only have SSE2, there will be a performance drop...), enough ram (at least 1gb, 2gb would be better if it's a dualcore, OSX is DDR hungry) and something a bit faster than a 5400rpm HDD (lot of small files loaded all the times), you should be pleased to see that it works like a charm, and quite speedy ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hecker Posted June 1, 2007 Share Posted June 1, 2007 I guess that if the hardware is very similar that the performance should be about the same. The only thing I could offer would be to run a few tests on my 2Ghz, 2GBRam MacBook (newest version) so you can compare them to your machine. Cheers, hecker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xual Posted June 1, 2007 Author Share Posted June 1, 2007 I have a 1.66 centrino duo, 2gb of DDr2 pc5300 677Mhz ram, 7200 rpm 60GB hardisk. The only worry I have is the wireless chip, the sound, and maybe the onboard intel graphics. I tried putting a version of XP pro onto that laptop and it stopped half way with a blue screen saying it didn't support my graphics adapter. So I'm a bit anxious with the mac. but once I get it running and maybe cubase sx3, ableton live 6, and reason 3.0. I'll be a happy camper. If its a stable and quick machine then It will do well for live performance. Even though I have only music stuff on it and never use it on the internet, and its instaled updated defragged and the files are never altered on it. It can still {censored} up sometimes.. You cannot understand the embarrasement of dj-ing to 1000 people in a club and having that happen and having to jump to a record.... Pure nightmare :-D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hackintom Posted June 1, 2007 Share Posted June 1, 2007 You cannot understand the embarrasement of dj-ing to 1000 people in a club and having that happen and having to jump to a record.... Pure nightmare :-D Hey dude, we can understand that relying on XP in a professional situation like this is a nightmare ! BTW, if windows wasn't so crappy... os X wouldn't be so great :-) Install osx86 on your laptop, do some tests for a few days before using it while you work, I guess osx86 will run smoother, quicker, safer than XP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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