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Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2007 4:14 pm
by TPRJones
Interesting. Maybe it's time to give 'em another shot.
Although one other question: is it possible to build a Mac out of spare parts? I prefer to make my own systems. It's much cheaper to upgrade later that way.
Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2007 5:04 pm
by DoctorChaos
Ah, now you've stumbled upon the reason Mac never took off the same way the PC did. It's a closed system. Because of this they can only use a small subset of the hardware available. In spite of Apple switching to Intel processors, I haven't heard of anyone who's running OS X on a PC platform.
Short answer to your question, no.
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Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2007 7:50 pm
by TheCatt
I know people have run OS X on a PC platform. That being said, I have no idea how long it lasted, if Apple eventually thwarted the efforts, etc.
This year, for the first time ever, I actually looked at a Mac as a possible computer for my wife, and then later for myself. The problem we had was not enough variety. The didn't have a powerful enough small one for the wife (12 or 13" with discrete graphics), and they didn't quite have a powerful enough large one for me (17" w/ RAID 1).
My boss is a Mac-fiend. He has the Santa Rosa Mac Book Pro, and it's very nice, with a great screen and does all that Unixy stuff DC mentioned. (He can code, and runs MySQL on it, etc).