Is it possible to do a homebuild MAC nowadays that they has became closer to normal PCs?
I'm thinking of getting a MAC but heck! Those on the list are all overpriced!
I agree...there's no real reason to build a mac. If you're going through all that trouble, you might as well go the safer route and build a PC and put osx86 on it (if you love the os that much..)
Actually Mac is not an inferior OS. In some ways it is superior. How do I know? Because I have always had PC's for a little over 10 years, I've gone to college for networking, and started out using PC's. Quite frankly, I will probably always have a pc for my games and various programs. That said, I do use a Macbook which has the intel core 2 duo, and must say I am quite impressed. There are many great features of a Mac. For example, you can set up multiple network locations, example, if you had a laptop and needed to go 20 different places, you can have a location, or basically a profile set up for each of those places you travel to, go to the apple menu, and select where you are and it has everything done for you. Also, Mac is based on Unix, so you can use the command lines and customize. It also has a quite nice network utility, something windows needs to put in instead of the old command prompt.
This is from a guy that will always use pc's, and is using vista on an athlon 5200 x2 with 2gb of memory. PC's for me have the programs I want and need, and are great. Love them, but again, don't bash the Mac either, they have come a long way, and leopard is nice too.
Honestly, on Mac, it is a great OS, having used both I can say that because I have built PC's, and work on Macs at my job, which is about 90% Mac computers, in fact just got to take an lcd out of a iBook g4 yesterday, fun fun fun. But the plain fact is, what do you want your machine to do? If you want to run games and what not, go with Windows. If you plan on running lots of different software applications go with Windows. Windows is great as well, works with just about everything.
Mac, you'd probably have to hack the OS to even get it installed, have to order almost all your software. So that's a couple of things. That said, if all you need it for is a simple box to check your email, surf the web, do some word processing, just basic things an average home user would use a computer for, the Mac is a fine choice, you don't have to worry as much about viruses etc from what I've seen. Though in defense of Windows, they are getting better on that front. Mac is very very stable, at least my Macbook usually is, but again, I don't get many problems out of my windows box either. But people should not have a mindset that Mac is inferior or Mac stinks. I used to think that way, but when you mess with it, it's actually quite capable.
One feature I do like is that I have what is my expose feature. If I'm doing a lot of work, I can move my mouse to one corner of my screen, and it will show my desktop, move to another corner, it brings up a mini window showing what I'm doing in each application, then I can click whichever one I need into.
I think the only reason I would mess around with OSX86 is because I have to learn OSX for a job, and I don't have $2,000 to blow on a Mac.
Yepp. That's the reason I want a mac...
I will try to install OSX Leopard on my AMD machine and see how it work. OSX86 forums says it will work so I will have to trust them.
And yes, there is a project called OSX86... which is OSX for PCs.
Ha Skittle....
I think you should share all this knowledge and wisdom with the community. I mean it's great to have your conclusions, but sometimes I would like you to go a bit in depth in your analysis. It would change from all this fanboy crap some other members write.
Yeah, if you're building a PC just TO RUN OSX, then it isn't really worth it.
You're going to end up buying Windows parts and not even be able to play games.
I would recommend just getting two drives, one with Windows, and one with OSX-any x86 machine can run OSX to some extent, my Athlon 64 X2 machine can even run OSX.
I can pretty much say you'll end up using Windows.
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4GB DDR2 884 @ 5-5-5-15 (This RAM is for my new system in the summer, using now cause I bought it early-had an insane deal for it)
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There are many great features of a Mac. For example, you can set up multiple network locations, example, if you had a laptop and needed to go 20 different places, you can have a location, or basically a profile set up for each of those places you travel to, go to the apple menu, and select where you are and it has everything done for you.
Haven't PC's always been able to do this? I now use my Vista laptop and go from home, to work, then to a business conference at a hotel every other month. I never tell my computer where i'm at. I set it up once and then it decides where i'm at and connects.
Anyway, just throwing this out there. I like computers in general. Windows and Mac although I haven't played around with a mac in a long time
I have a job (part time) that is building gaming PCs.
