So in the past couple of weeks I've been thinking long and hard about possiblely going over to a Mac, and while I don't have the money right now to buy a Mac I can partition my drive and run it on there. So my question is should I? Or should I just hold out and buy a Mac? Just looking for advice and thoughts.
If you have the technical skill to set up a hackintosh dual-boot, I don't see why not. It's fun to experiment with, and if it works well, can be a real money saver too.
I wouldn't recommend buying a Mac (yeah, that's just like, your opinion, man), but I don't see why you wouldn't try the OS out. So just do it, it's not like you're going to fuck up something royally anyway.
Best thing to do is go to an Apple store and try out the OS. List a bunch of things you'd normally do on Windows and see how it works on OSX.
Hackentoshes are fun. I'm on a reverse hackentosh right now.
[QUOTE=googzeez;32160241]Hackentoshes are fun. I'm on a reverse hackentosh right now.[/QUOTE]
You installed a computer on your OS X? Classy.
It can be intimidating installing OSX through all the tools, specially since there are tons of hardware issues (which is always being worked on by the awesome OSX86 community).
Aren't hackintoshes illegal
[QUOTE=TerabyteS_;32187894]Aren't hackintoshes illegal[/QUOTE]
It does void the EULA of OS X as you aren't using it on Apple verified hardware, but as long as you own a license, it should be perfectly legal.
[QUOTE=michaeldim;32151941]If you have the technical skill to set up a hackintosh dual-boot, I don't see why not. It's fun to experiment with, and if it works well, can be a real money saver too.[/QUOTE]
Do you know anything about hackintosh? I have to boot it from the CD every time. It wont work for me with out it.
[QUOTE=Zombie man70;32189631]Do you know anything about hackintosh? I have to boot it from the CD every time. It wont work for me with out it.[/QUOTE]
Google guides based on your hardware, specifically motherboard and its chipset.
If you have an intel setup all you need is a chameleon based image loader, pop it in, wait until you have a list of drives, replace it with your OSX CD, refresh and go.
[QUOTE=dude2193;32194714]Google guides based on your hardware, specifically motherboard and its chipset.[/QUOTE]
I know, but the guides are outdated and I followed them step by step.
Couldn't find most of the kext either.
A high end mac mini comes (configured like a new computer with a mouse, keyboard, Mini display port to dvi, remote,) 1024$ with a 2.5 GHz Processor 4GB of RAM 500 GB Hardrive (Not an SSD) Superdrive
mighty mouse, apple wired keyboard, a mini display to DVI, And an Apple Remote, It also comes with lion.
[QUOTE=Teh_Ostrich;32233852]A high end mac mini comes (configured like a new computer with a mouse, keyboard, Mini display port to dvi, remote,) 1024$ with a 2.5 GHz Processor 4GB of RAM 500 GB Hardrive (Not an SSD) Superdrive
mighty mouse, apple wired keyboard, a mini display to DVI, And an Apple Remote, It also comes with lion.[/QUOTE]
1024$?
[QUOTE=Teh_Ostrich;32233852]A high end mac mini comes (configured like a new computer with a mouse, keyboard, Mini display port to dvi, remote,) 1024$ with a 2.5 GHz Processor 4GB of RAM 500 GB Hardrive (Not an SSD) Superdrive
mighty mouse, apple wired keyboard, a mini display to DVI, And an Apple Remote, It also comes with lion.[/QUOTE]
RIIIIIIIIIIP OFFFFFFFF!
[QUOTE=Teh_Ostrich;32233852]A high end mac mini comes (configured like a new computer with a mouse, keyboard, Mini display port to dvi, remote,) 1024$ with a 2.5 GHz Processor 4GB of RAM 500 GB Hardrive (Not an SSD) Superdrive
mighty mouse, apple wired keyboard, a mini display to DVI, And an Apple Remote, It also comes with lion.[/QUOTE]
Ugh.
[QUOTE=Teh_Ostrich;32233852]A high end mac mini comes (configured like a new computer with a mouse, keyboard, Mini display port to dvi, remote,) 1024$ with a 2.5 GHz Processor 4GB of RAM 500 GB Hardrive (Not an SSD) Superdrive
mighty mouse, apple wired keyboard, a mini display to DVI, And an Apple Remote, It also comes with lion.[/QUOTE]
And it doesn't come with a monitor...
That's just way too much money.
Oh but you are getting Apple's excelent after purchase care with it, and the Apple sticker, and don't forget that almost completely unresponsive mouse!
[QUOTE=chrishind10;32237886]Oh but you are getting Apple's excelent after purchase care with it, and the Apple sticker, and don't forget that almost completely unresponsive mouse![/QUOTE]
Dude, What The Fuck are you doing in the apple section? We all know you hate apple, Some of us like apple. quit forcing your fucking opinion (That you need to keep to yourself) Down everybody's frontal lobe. Like The rules say, If you wouldn't go to the cars section and talk about how shitty cars are, don't do it here.
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[QUOTE=chrishind10;32234358]RIIIIIIIIIIP OFFFFFFFF![/QUOTE]
Cool Story Bro
Okay then, I'll also start recomending Alienware to people aswell, because telling them they are wasting their money is a bad thing. Hey, why doesn't everyone go to bestbuy tech support next time something stops working, your going to get great value for money!
[editline]13th September 2011[/editline]
Infact, we should have an alienware section too and we should all not tell the posters that they blew their money on a heap of crap or disuade more people from buying said heap of crap.
[QUOTE=chrishind10;32260721]Okay then, I'll also start recomending Alienware to people aswell, because telling them they are wasting their money is a bad thing. Hey, why doesn't everyone go to bestbuy tech support next time something stops working, your going to get great value for money!
[editline]13th September 2011[/editline]
Infact, we should have an alienware section too and we should all not tell the posters that they blew their money on a heap of crap or disuade more people from buying said heap of crap.[/QUOTE]
Cool Story Bro
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[QUOTE=chrishind10;32260721]Okay then, I'll also start recomending Alienware to people aswell, because telling them they are wasting their money is a bad thing. Hey, why doesn't everyone go to bestbuy tech support next time something stops working, your going to get great value for money!
[editline]13th September 2011[/editline]
Infact, we should have an alienware section too and we should all not tell the posters that they blew their money on a heap of crap or disuade more people from buying said heap of crap.[/QUOTE]
Why are you posting in the apple section if you don't like apple products?
[QUOTE=sentrix;32261701]Why are you posting in the apple section if you don't like apple products?[/QUOTE]
Apple products are fine, the amount of assholes using them, their price, and their use as a status symbol and not a computer are what's not fine.
[QUOTE=Teh_Ostrich;32260886]Cool Story Bro[/QUOTE]
The apple section is not for advice, it's just for "Yes, go and waste all of your money on a vastly underpowered unupgradable computer! DO IT!"
[QUOTE=chrishind10;32265334]The apple section is not for advice, it's just for "Yes, go and waste all of your money on a vastly underpowered unupgradable computer! DO IT!"[/QUOTE]
Even though I agree on that you go too far in here far too often, this is somewhat true. Telling someone to buy a 1024$ computer just to try an OS out is simply too fucked up. Then rating people saying it's simply too much money dumb is simply dumb. If you can't take that people think that you're giving people bad advice, and simply tell them to get out, you're doing this completely wrong.
-snip-
[QUOTE=chrishind10;32265685]I'm not telling him to get out, I just want him to step back for a moment and look at how ridiculous it is buying [i]that[/i] for that kind of price, even for an Apple computer, it's disproportionately priced. I would rather buy a MBP than that thing.[/QUOTE]
That was meant to him, not you.
Sorry, my reading comprehension is off this morning :smith:
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