~pcwiz Posted December 15, 2007 Share Posted December 15, 2007 I recently read a review in PC Magazine of the Raon Digital Everum L30H Barebones mini UMPC. According to the specs, the mini PC runs Windows XP Media Center Edition but the image tells otherwise: LOL. See what OS its running? Its running Mac OS X and it looks pretty legit. I later checked the ONLINE review on the PCmag site but it showed the mini PC running Windows. But the image in the printed magazine shows it running OS X. What do you think? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/76405-mini-pc-running-os-x/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
rob356 Posted December 15, 2007 Share Posted December 15, 2007 That's great! It seems that that editor was bored and decided to install OSx86 in it! Then he was found out, and made to uninstall it. Or it was photoshopped, just for the fun of it to see how many people spotted it. Still hilarious! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/76405-mini-pc-running-os-x/#findComment-539518 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paranoid Marvin Posted December 15, 2007 Share Posted December 15, 2007 Hmmm, for the image to be that clear, it must be a photoshop. You see that sometimes in other magazines, where they have just stuck on a screen shot to a picture of the computer/laptop to make the screen seem better than it would look in a photo Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/76405-mini-pc-running-os-x/#findComment-539541 Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted December 16, 2007 Author Share Posted December 16, 2007 Yeah but a PC Magazine photoshopping a PC screen to make it look like its running OS X? Absurd in my opinion. Either its real and the mini PC is running OS X or the editors are really stupid and want to play games with Apple lawyers. If they just wanted to make the screen look clear, they could have just stuck a Windows XP screen on there. Maybe it was just a joke. Just in case I checked the magazine issue to see whether it was an April issue (Computer magazines tend to put lots of jokes in their April issues for April Fools) but nope, it was the December 2007 issue. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/76405-mini-pc-running-os-x/#findComment-539549 Share on other sites More sharing options...
apowerr Posted December 16, 2007 Share Posted December 16, 2007 In ads and such screen images are always simulated, it was probably a designer's mistake. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/76405-mini-pc-running-os-x/#findComment-539553 Share on other sites More sharing options...
scj312 Posted December 16, 2007 Share Posted December 16, 2007 I see ads for Security software with systems running OS X on the computers. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/76405-mini-pc-running-os-x/#findComment-539645 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Numberzz Posted December 16, 2007 Share Posted December 16, 2007 Well, if you look closely enough, there is no Spotlight icon, which means it is 10.3 or earlier. No Intel For You! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/76405-mini-pc-running-os-x/#findComment-539653 Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted December 16, 2007 Author Share Posted December 16, 2007 You're right Numberzz! That makes it even better because they got a PPC OS to run on an Intel processor (or is it Intel ) EDIT: Just had a possible answer to WHY. Maybe Windows is displaying a screenshot of OS X in FULL SCREEN Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/76405-mini-pc-running-os-x/#findComment-539656 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hagar Posted December 16, 2007 Share Posted December 16, 2007 This is actually fairly common.. designers have a stock desktop picture they use for pasteups.. I've seen mac screens on dells & compaqs in newspaper ads. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/76405-mini-pc-running-os-x/#findComment-539658 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colonel Posted December 16, 2007 Share Posted December 16, 2007 OS X is prettier than Windows. Its better for advertising. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/76405-mini-pc-running-os-x/#findComment-539753 Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted December 16, 2007 Author Share Posted December 16, 2007 Yeah I actually do remember seeing another OS X screen on a PC in a different issue of the magazine Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/76405-mini-pc-running-os-x/#findComment-540126 Share on other sites More sharing options...
vbetts Posted December 16, 2007 Share Posted December 16, 2007 If the cpu is sse2. it's possible. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/76405-mini-pc-running-os-x/#findComment-540140 Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted December 16, 2007 Author Share Posted December 16, 2007 Like I said, that would be asking for trouble from Apple lawyers. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/76405-mini-pc-running-os-x/#findComment-540193 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prawker Posted December 17, 2007 Share Posted December 17, 2007 Yup, this is definitally photoshoped. the reflections are all wrong Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/76405-mini-pc-running-os-x/#findComment-540624 Share on other sites More sharing options...
skyhighmac Posted December 21, 2007 Share Posted December 21, 2007 Still cool though. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/76405-mini-pc-running-os-x/#findComment-545711 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boot Camp Posted January 1, 2008 Share Posted January 1, 2008 The keypad looks horrifying. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/76405-mini-pc-running-os-x/#findComment-560985 Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted January 1, 2008 Author Share Posted January 1, 2008 All UMPC keypads are horrifying Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/76405-mini-pc-running-os-x/#findComment-561005 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Escape311 Posted January 3, 2008 Share Posted January 3, 2008 I remember in an old PC mag (pre-Vista release) there was a flash memory company that was advertising their new line of USB flash drives that support Ready Boost. Well, the screen of the laptop displayed Vista and they show the flash drive sticking out of the side of the laptop. However, the laptop was a PowerBook. I found it pretty funny. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/76405-mini-pc-running-os-x/#findComment-563955 Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted January 4, 2008 Author Share Posted January 4, 2008 Lol And this was before the Boot Camp days. PCMag makes pretty good predictions of the future eh? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/76405-mini-pc-running-os-x/#findComment-564607 Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Nonny Moose Posted January 12, 2008 Share Posted January 12, 2008 hehe. I still like seeing the cardboard computers on the desks in stores (the display model of a desk that you can buy) that somehow run Mac OS 9 also. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/76405-mini-pc-running-os-x/#findComment-576629 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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