Installing Mac OS X Leopard on a PC
…“You can build your system for a lot less than a real Mac and get the performance of a top-dollar Apple machine. This is fact and a lot of the real Mac users will deny, but it is fact. My machine runs a e4300 Core Duo Processor over-clocked to 3.40 GHZ. Where can you get a 3.4-GHz Mac? It will cost you a fortune. I have 1066-MHz DDR2 memory. Where can you get that on a real Mac???”
“Why run OS X? Well, when you are just used to Windows, it is like living inside a house and not experimenting the whole world out there. Once you get out of it, it is just amazing. Mac is just that: You just feel like glued to the computer. Everything is just beautiful, the interface, the stability. Once you experiment it, you don’t want to go back to windows. Trust me.” Read the full how-to guide on OSx86Scene.com (found on MacUser.Com)
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Windows Vista Refunds!
October 31, 2007 at 11:21 am
Well I guess I won’t be turning my old PC into an Ubuntu Linux box after all!
As a 15+ year veteran of Windows (and a power user) I can honestly say I agree whole heartedly with that guy’s comments. I’m so glad I switched to OS X and you couldn’t PAY me to go back to using Windows at home. (Not even for $10,000)
October 31, 2007 at 1:00 pm
@vistasucks: Amen brother! I switched to a Mac June of last year and have been as happy as punch ever since. Apple has really done wonders to OS X and it’s a really clean sharp and stable OS.
I run Windows XP for gaming on an older PC and I run both Parallels and BootCamp on the Mac when I want to use the power of 4 XEON processors to run Windows software. Other than that, it stays in OS X and I rarely feel the need to use Windows.
I have to look at Vista at work, and boy do I dread it each time I do.
November 15, 2007 at 1:04 pm
Seems the folks at LifeHacker.Com decided to give it a shot…
http://lifehacker.com/software/hack-attack/build-a-hackintosh-mac-for-under-800-321913.php
December 12, 2007 at 2:31 am
You do know this is illegal right? Buy a mac computer, your get what you pay for. none of my Macs have died, all of my PCs have.
January 11, 2008 at 2:31 am
extremely interesting…. i think i might try this one. thanks for the info
January 28, 2008 at 5:31 pm
I would agree that Mac is better except being a programmer, the tools for Windows like Visual Studio are next to free on a Windows compared to Mac. Sure you can program Java on Mac, but Java GUIs are so slow. So from a developers perspective, the .NET platform is a dream and Windows is the way to go.
January 30, 2008 at 1:49 pm
It all comes down to personal preference what is “THE BEST”. If you are a ‘cough’ .NET programmer (yuk!) then of course Windows will be BEST for you. That is only 1 application in the world of millions of applications. Macs are gaining so much ground because with the power of UNIX behind it gives it the flexibility and stability people want. Apple has made a lot of progress in MAC OSX and its cool to see how far they have come from 10 years ago.
February 13, 2008 at 10:36 am
“I would agree that Mac is better except being a programmer, the tools for Windows like Visual Studio are next to free on a Windows compared to Mac. Sure you can program Java on Mac, but Java GUIs are so slow. So from a developers perspective, the .NET platform is a dream and Windows is the way to go.”
It’s not quite a fair comparison since .net is not platform agnostic like java. It’s meant to be used on one platform and granted it runs faster on that (windows) platform.
February 13, 2008 at 4:43 pm
asdf: Read this… http://vistasucks.wordpress.com/2008/01/09/hi-im-a-programmer-im-in-love-with-my-new-mac-because/
April 30, 2008 at 4:54 pm
mac sucks the end
apple has done so much lying to promote mac, and mac still sucks
mac is slow and will never catch up to a pc, and pc’s just offer much much more for people to use
mac are for beginners