RipJaw Posted February 1, 2006 Share Posted February 1, 2006 Just as the title says, is any one here thinking about making there new hybrid OSX into a daily PC. Something used for personal and business use. I am thinking about it heavly until I can ether afford a new mac, or if they sell the OS out right. I want one bad, they have done more in 5 years than Microsoft has done in a LONG time. I Mean Windows is good and all, but comparing to Macs first attempt on X86 (thats been made public) its a real good punch in the face. So whos soley using there hybrid OSX now?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclonefr Posted February 1, 2006 Share Posted February 1, 2006 in my case windows XP doent want to boot from my second partition with a big BLUE SCREEEN = great! in fact ill have to install it freshly on a new HDD and slow UDMA33 arf! anyway i dont need XP for my use except i cant use my BT and NOKIA with the USB cable on OSX which is really bad for sending file ehehe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RipJaw Posted February 1, 2006 Author Share Posted February 1, 2006 in my case windows XP doent want to boot from my second partition with a big BLUE SCREEEN = great!in fact ill have to install it freshly on a new HDD and slow UDMA33 arf! anyway i dont need XP for my use except i cant use my BT and NOKIA with the USB cable on OSX which is really bad for sending file ehehe Yea I hear that. I plan on running a Dual Boot on this machine, and then building a small windows workstation to do the things I need done on windows. That way I can have both computers going at the same time. The other install of Windows on my Mac will be for games and such. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jadedhalo Posted February 1, 2006 Share Posted February 1, 2006 One of my goals this year was to switch from Windows to OS X. I got brave last week and but together a cheap 915/Celeron computer and loaded OS X on it. I took down my Windowss PC so i couldnt use it at all, this way I'm forced to use OS X to do my daily stuff. Its only been about a week and I'm hooked. I doubt I'll be back to Windows unteil Vista is out, then I'll have to play with that and see but as soon as the intel mac minis are released, i'll be first in line for one. So far i have been able to do everything, which is alot, i used to in windows on OS X. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RipJaw Posted February 1, 2006 Author Share Posted February 1, 2006 One of my goals this year was to switch from Windows to OS X. I got brave last week and but together a cheap 915/Celeron computer and loaded OS X on it. I took down my Windowss PC so i couldnt use it at all, this way I'm forced to use OS X to do my daily stuff. Its only been about a week and I'm hooked. I doubt I'll be back to Windows unteil Vista is out, then I'll have to play with that and see but as soon as the intel mac minis are released, i'll be first in line for one. So far i have been able to do everything, which is alot, i used to in windows on OS X. Apple did a super awesome job ... I reallly hope they sell the OS alone soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dee S. 73 Posted February 1, 2006 Share Posted February 1, 2006 comparing to Macs first attempt on X86 dont forget OsX has been developed on x86 system since the start of the project so its not really a "first attempt" ... Sure is that osX now is prolly the *nix system with the better window manager and rendering system... DS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WilboZ Posted February 1, 2006 Share Posted February 1, 2006 Apple did a super awesome job ... I reallly hope they sell the OS alone soon. IF they DO...then I WILL buy it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JE Posted February 1, 2006 Share Posted February 1, 2006 The machine at my house has it as its only operating system. Works fine. I built it around the dev systems stats, so generally I've had no problems with it. Running 10.4.3. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdxxx Posted February 1, 2006 Share Posted February 1, 2006 One thing about OSX that drives me crazy and keeps me from using it as a base OS: Screen resolutions and cursor. Seems like a "little" thing, but it is what I look at hour after hour.... I run a big LCD display, and there is no way to set system defaults to increase dpi display across all applications. One can increase the cursor size of course -- and get a pixelated ugly 16x16 arrow. One can hit zoom again and again and again. But: Linux KDE allows screen dpi resolution to be modified, and supports any cursor collection desired (or self designed). WinXP handles this well, WinVista has a new display dpi setting that essentially increases screen size of windows elements for all apps. So Mac, with this incredible desktop and all the eye candy, and gushing multimedia graphics apps, cannot handle optional mouse pointer styles and sizes, and universal dpi adjustments? And expects me to use a 16x16 microscopic cursor on a 25" LCD? Come on! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dippyskoodlez Posted February 1, 2006 Share Posted February 1, 2006 lol it doesnt, if you have a supported video card... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
detriment Posted February 16, 2006 Share Posted February 16, 2006 ive had it running on my dell laptop, everything works, no probs. it replaced my gentoo install. i have no intention of getting rid of it anytime soon. no dual boot, no windows, nothing. just mac os. and i love it. i want a macbook now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FullMetal Posted February 16, 2006 Share Posted February 16, 2006 The Short answer is Yes. I use my Hackintosh for School , Work , and Torrenting I had XP but it crapped out on me when I changed motherboards for OSX. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ced1610 Posted February 16, 2006 Share Posted February 16, 2006 office and home are on osx86 10.4.3 8f1111g. all is working fine, in office filemaker pro under Rosetta : ok !!! printing on hp laserjet 2700 n only one pb that impose me windows XP at home: Maya 5.0... i haven't re-intalled OSX at office, it's simply the best os for guys who wants to work, and not lose their time to reinstal an os (XP sp2) that will be offline in (this is my old problem) 4 month. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soviet Posted February 19, 2006 Share Posted February 19, 2006 I have 10.4.3 8FFF1g 2 full months as workstation, i have a macmini but mi osx86 pc a (p4 2.8D ht 2gb ddr2 intel 945 onboard video) are much much faster than the mac mini, i never use it now. Also i deleted windows and reformated old drives for osx. thank maxxuss and apple for making all of this hacking posible Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mvp30 Posted February 20, 2006 Share Posted February 20, 2006 I am coming from linux and now i use it as my only ws. At the begining I had the 3 OSs: 10.4.1, XP, Linux (Grub managed the booting great). Now just 10.4.3 The most important was moving my mail form Evolution to Thunderbird: just copying the files!!! Ii is just great. I would buy OSX (the soft) if available. I will buy an iBook-Macbook whenever available. I will buy an iMac whnever it is possible to run XP. I have custom-made invoicing program that only runs under XP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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