i kinda made the switch

BudBud Chesterfield, Va
edited September 2006 in Science & Tech
Today I wiped my pc and installed os x (OSx86). As I am posting this I am running firefox in OSX 10.4.7 I must admit it is pretty nice.

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  • GnomeWizarddGnomeWizardd Member 4 Life Akron, PA Icrontian
    edited August 2006
    u can run that on a PC since when???
  • airbornflghtairbornflght Houston, TX Icrontian
    edited August 2006
    Um yeh...you can run it on a pc? Show me how and I'm there.
  • BudBud Chesterfield, Va
    edited August 2006
    http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page here is the site, Ive got everything working but my sound. Gonna go pick up a new soundcard today.
  • LeonardoLeonardo Wake up and smell the glaciers Eagle River, Alaska Icrontian
    edited August 2006
    Bud, please keep this thread updated. This is very interesting.
  • BudBud Chesterfield, Va
    edited August 2006
    Leonardo wrote:
    Bud, please keep this thread updated. This is very interesting.

    ah I love it, I am debating buying a mac mini now cause os x is soooo nice. After being a windows guy for sooo long now I am having to relear all the shortcuts on the keyboard and some differences in doing things compared to doing things on a pc. What would you guys like updates on?
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited August 2006
    How quickly it sinks as a boat anchor.
  • AnnesAnnes Tripped Up by Libidos and Hubris Alexandria, VA Icrontian
    edited August 2006
    Thrax wrote:
    How quickly it sinks as a boat anchor.

    Please explain your irrational hatred of Macs, Thrax. Were you abused by an Apple as a child? Did it touch you in your "no-no zone"?

    :tongue2:

    And I'm a little surprised that you guys are just now learning about this, you're usually on the cusp of things and this project has already been taken down once by Apple and then brought back up. I think that was about 9 months ago, IIRC. Also, it's not too difficult, even my mildly tech-savvy friends have bee able to do it successfully. Me, I have no interest in it, I just own the real deal. :D
  • BudBud Chesterfield, Va
    edited August 2006
    StainMeNow wrote:
    Please explain your irrational hatred of Macs, Thrax. Were you abused by an Apple as a child? Did it touch you in your "no-no zone"?

    :tongue2:

    And I'm a little surprised that you guys are just now learning about this, you're usually on the cusp of things and this project has already been taken down once by Apple and then brought back up. I think that was about 9 months ago, IIRC. Also, it's not too difficult, even my mildly tech-savvy friends have bee able to do it successfully. Me, I have no interest in it, I just own the real deal. :D

    lol ;D. I have known about it a while and contemplated buying the mobo that the developers were using for the new intel osx systems. But I decided to wait and they have made it for a lot more mobo's can be used and better driver support. Video cards and sounds cards a still an issue. I figured I would try it since I have 8 computers that are working, I am looking at buying a mac mini after using osx though.
  • BuddyJBuddyJ Dept. of Propaganda OKC Icrontian
    edited August 2006
    I purchased a MacBook in July and love it. OSX is nice because it gives me something else to learn, and with Boot Camp, I can revert to XP if I really need it. I've found I use XP less and less now, which suprised me. For general email/web/video stuff, OSX is great.

    Get a MacMini Bud. That little box packs a lot of usability.
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited August 2006
    Oh sure, when I did it, I was called all kinds of names and had people telling me what a jerk I was! Now, Bud goes and puts OS X on his pc, and he's awesome! ;D

    I just can't win :p
  • GnomeWizarddGnomeWizardd Member 4 Life Akron, PA Icrontian
    edited August 2006
    I love you Brian
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited August 2006
    Awwww. I love you too, Twitch ;)
  • AnnesAnnes Tripped Up by Libidos and Hubris Alexandria, VA Icrontian
    edited August 2006
    primesuspect wrote:
    Awwww. I love you too, Twitch ;)

    If you two keep this up we can ALL be winners! (well, at least me) :vimp:
  • BudBud Chesterfield, Va
    edited August 2006
    primesuspect wrote:
    Oh sure, when I did it, I was called all kinds of names and had people telling me what a jerk I was! Now, Bud goes and puts OS X on his pc, and he's awesome! ;D

    I just can't win :p

    Thats cause i didnt buy a mac I did it with what I already had. Just joking
  • tmh88tmh88 Pittsburgh / Athens, OH
    edited August 2006
    The main thing(which is huge) that keeps me away from macs is gaming. I play tons of games so unless I get a mac mini for email/internet I probably will never own one.
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited August 2006
    tmh88 wrote:
    The main thing(which is huge) that keeps me away from macs is gaming. I play tons of games so unless I get a mac mini for email/internet I probably will never own one.

    Don't you know? Steve Jobs says you can do everything on a Mac better than you can do it on a PC. Steve Jobs knows everything..

    /me recasts his line and continues fishing.
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited August 2006
    //Brian adds this thread to his Thrax dossier for when Thrax buys a mac two years from now....
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited August 2006
    primesuspect wrote:
    //Brian adds this thread to his Thrax dossier for when Thrax buys a mac two years from now....

    I have my own counter-dossier! It'll be like a SCO Unix lawsuit!
  • airbornflghtairbornflght Houston, TX Icrontian
    edited August 2006
    I just think OS X is prettier, that is all, the only thing I like is the OS, I could give two flying flips about the hardware. If have read about that quite some time ago, but it didnt seem that it was going anywhere, and there wasnt any real process for doing it.

    If I had an extra pc, I would do it.
  • TheSmJTheSmJ
    edited August 2006
    I can't understand why I or anyone else should switch to OSX unless they have a really specific reason - such as an OSX only application you absolutely cannot live without.

    I don't have any apps which need to run in OSX (or even run better in OSX), and Win XP is rock stable for me. Furthermore, OSX has little support in the way of newly released games short of a select few.

    Don't get my wrong; Its nice to know I have the option to use it if I ever need to in the (far) future, but am I missing anything by sticking with Windows? Not from my point of view.
  • BudBud Chesterfield, Va
    edited August 2006
    I just wanted to be well rounded I know some linux/unix and I am working on learning more. Having a mac just helps me learn it also so I can throw it on my resume. I also noticed I am not gaming much anymore and all I really do is email, surf, maybe watch a video, listen to online music or my collection so a mac does that all without a hiccup. Also I did it on a machine I hadnt fired up in a week or to so it was nice to use it for something.
  • drasnordrasnor Starship Operator Hawthorne, CA Icrontian
    edited September 2006
    TheSmJ wrote:
    I can't understand why I or anyone else should switch to OSX unless they have a really specific reason - such as an OSX only application you absolutely cannot live without.
    Or you're like me and you just don't like Windows.

    -drasnor :fold:
  • EnverexEnverex Worcester, UK Icrontian
    edited September 2006
    Well I see the issues like this (also explains why I use Linux).

    Windows is good because it has a large software library and tends to "just work" most of the time anyway.

    Linux is good because it's made by people, for people. It's everyones ideas rolled into one, doing what people want it to do. It's not made for profit, features aren't added that people don't want because of chances to make more profit from it. It's basically by people, for people. When I use it I know I'm using something that is designed to let me do what I want, not what some company thinks I want mixed with ways to try and make more profit. Sure, it can be quite complicated, but there is normally someone I can ask to get help with someone (assuming I can't figure it out myself) and with it being open source and built by just entheuseasts I can just fix the problem myself and submit it. It's also easier to fix if your machine has some sort of catastrophic failure (it's damn easy to fix due to the chroot system booting from any self-booting linux CD).

    MacOS is designed to be simple and pretty, but I dislike it because of the way Apple goes about everything. In terms of what I refered to they are worse than MS. Expensive hardware, expensive everything and downright complete lies in the marketing to sell to people (hence another reason MacOS users are hated, they've normally just bought the BS and that's the problem).

    My perfect OS would be Linux with the software library of Windows or hell, even just the games. Praise to ID for always making their games work on Linux (All the series' for Doom, Quake, Unreal (Tournament), etc).

    My summary: MS is out for money and submits to pressure from other companies for things like DRM, Apple is out for money but uses blatant lies quite often to do it and Linux is just built on what people want, no monetary gain, just out to make a better OS. I don't think Windows is a bad OS, quite the opposite (apart from some severe flaws but they all have them somewhere) it's just the makers that I have issues with, same with OSX.
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