GoMatt Posted February 16, 2006 Share Posted February 16, 2006 After finding out what OS X was all about way back when, I have always had a little in me that wanted to play with its beautifulness. When pearPC was out, I was all over it, but it was SLOW. Now I am seeing this OsX86 and looks cool. So, with a PC laptop and a new apartment for myself in August, I am looking on what I want in a computer set up. At home I have a desktop PC I built but now it is my parents as I am at school and I just have an HP Dv1000. Photography is my hobby and would really like to use Aperture and all the iLife and iWork stuff. What should I do, either just screw a mac and build a kick ass PC this summer for Vista? OR Keep my windows laptop and buy a nice mac desktop when intel comes to the power mac and use MAC as my primary CPU OR sell my laptop for little $$$ and buy a mac laptop, and later build a PC for vista? This summer I will be working and getting some serious cash so I can do some of these things. If i build a X86 intel mac, will it be good enough for your main computer, and can i use aperture and stuff? If i get a mac, i can just use a $200 pc for the PC things like buring dvds and such. I think, it just maybe, i dont want to face the fact to omit windows from my life, its been with me forever (18 yrs old)! By the way, I will need sometype of laptop because I am student and just have to have it. So if I dont get a mac laptop, then I will atleast have one PC. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/9220-to-switch-or-osx68-it-or-forget-about-an-apple/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbjonas Posted February 16, 2006 Share Posted February 16, 2006 If you're building from scratch, and chose the right components, you can build an excellent hackintosh that will run 10.4.3 8F1111A faster than any Mac or IntelMac out there as of now... Whether you can later upgrade that hackintosh is an unknown. (maybe 10.4.4 and 10.4.5 might work, but who the hell knows beyond that...) Since you're talking about doing this this summer, I would relax and keep an eye on how 10.4.4 and 5 turn out, we'll know a whole lot more by then and component compatibility seems to be ever changing into a more specific set of hardware that matches the Apple x86 hardware. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/9220-to-switch-or-osx68-it-or-forget-about-an-apple/#findComment-57443 Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoMatt Posted February 16, 2006 Author Share Posted February 16, 2006 sweet, sounds good Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/9220-to-switch-or-osx68-it-or-forget-about-an-apple/#findComment-57475 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amazondani Posted February 19, 2006 Share Posted February 19, 2006 I would recomend you wait a little, and see if Vista realy can get installed on Apple Hardware. If this is provem to be possible, and runin well, you could buy a real mac, and have this awesome machine, with total suport form apple, and the possivility to run windows tool. Hope i helped. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/9220-to-switch-or-osx68-it-or-forget-about-an-apple/#findComment-57892 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sniper_snipey Posted April 7, 2009 Share Posted April 7, 2009 I would recommend you wait a little, and see if Vista really can get installed on Apple Hardware.If this is proven to be possible, and runin well, you could buy a real mac, and have this awesome machine, with total support form apple, and the possibility to run windows tool. Hope i helped. My plan exactly. I plan to sell ALL the computers and electronic stuffs (Besides cell phone, flash drives, HDD's, basically stuff with my data on them) in my possession and buy a Mac Pro. I will get 2 1 Terabyte drives and have Vista on 1 TB, XP on 500 GB and OSX on the other 500 GB. Pisses me off that it's gonna cost 4000 USD. Damn. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/9220-to-switch-or-osx68-it-or-forget-about-an-apple/#findComment-1126111 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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