Intel Mac comes very poor second to PPC

[bloodline]

Oliver wrote:
Turns out it is possible to install Tiger on most modern PC's with a little jiggery pokery.  Must have sse2 to run, and sse3 for rosetta.  Not sure of the legality though.  I think it's worth checking out.  I want to try more OS's.

With the Maxxus patch rosetta works fine on an SSE2 CPU. I have done this myself, but then I own a Mac (PowerBook G4 1.5Ghz) and plan to get MacBook Pro... I was just trying to find out how compatible my software would be with the new Macs... :-D

[Oliver]

Oh, thanks.  That's worth knowing.

Do you know if there are any issues with legality, in using Tiger on a non Apple x86 machine?

[bloodline]

mdma wrote:

Tripitaka wrote:
I don't take a great deal of interest in the Mac most of the time and avoid Intel for AMD if at all pos. However, I would be interested to know if the MacOS ever makes it on an AMD, I might....only maybe ...give it a go. I hated any MacOS prior to OSX but as I have not given the Tiger a walk yet I'd give
it a look. On Intel, not a hope! I'm just not going to buy an Intel box for that.

I've only bought AMD CPU's for years, but would never not buy a product just because it has an Intel CPU inside it.

That's the same mentality that the BAF's have. :-/

Exactly! I always buy best performance for my money... which has meant that I've only generally bought Athlon CPU's... Had to get a Mac to run Logic Audio 7.0 though :-) and it turns out they MacOS X is really good, and the Laptops are vastly superior to any other maker!

[bloodline]

Oliver wrote:
Oh, thanks.  That's worth knowing.

Do you know if there are any issues with legality, in using Tiger on a non Apple x86 machine?

I expect it's highly illegal... But if you try it, I strongly suspect that your next computer purchace will be an Apple one ;-) (Their laptops are amazing)

http://www.pistolwimp.com/media/40718/

[Oliver]

Yeah, when I can afford a laptop, I'll most likely get an x86 Apple, and stick a few OS's on it.  I have to say, all my Apple products to date have been extremely reliable.

Thanks bloodline.

[bloodline]

A Quick note, to say that the new MacBooks are actually shipping with faster processors than previously advertised... the original 1.65Ghz Model now ships with a 1.85Ghz CPU and the original 1.8Ghz Model now ships with a 2.0Ghz CPU (with a BTO option of a 2.2Ghz CPU).

Very exciting stuff!!!!

I have now had the pleasure of using a 17" iMac Core Duo with 1GB DDR2 RAM for the last week.

It is the fastest, most responsive computer I have ever personally used.

[beller]

I did an in-store comparison of  the iMac G4 and the iMac intel.  The iNtel (new official Apple spelling) Mac was much faster running the native iPhoto and had the same photo libraries.   There really was no comparison...it smoked the PPC with similar specs.

My dual 1.8 G5 is only 2 years old but I'm starting to wonder when the iNtel Mac towers will arrive!

Bob

[koaftder]

I'd like to know how the cooling is on the machine. I'm thankful that on my powerbooks, all the heat is radiated away from the battery. My 876MHz 12" power book still gets 2 hours on a battery, and the machine gets up upfront where the ram is, but the battery stays cool. I'm assuming if the battery gets mad hot, i will not last as long.

koaftder wrote:
I'd like to know how the cooling is on the machine. I'm thankful that on my powerbooks, all the heat is radiated away from the battery. My 876MHz 12" power book still gets 2 hours on a battery, and the machine gets up upfront where the ram is, but the battery stays cool. I'm assuming if the battery gets mad hot, i will not last as long.

On the desktop iMac that I have, you cannot ever hear the fans yet to the touch the computer casing isn't warm anywhere.

It's on all day everyday, and surfing, emailing, compiling, and playing MP3's is what it's used for.

[bloodline]

koaftder wrote:
I'd like to know how the cooling is on the machine. I'm thankful that on my powerbooks, all the heat is radiated away from the battery. My 876MHz 12" power book still gets 2 hours on a battery, and the machine gets up upfront where the ram is, but the battery stays cool. I'm assuming if the battery gets mad hot, i will not last as long.

A G5 iMac gets much hotter than an iNtel iMac... after a days constant useage at the Apple Store (on Regents Street here in London), the iNtel iMac back slightly warm to touch, with a gentle "breeze" from the top vent... the G5 is Very hot (I guestimate about 50C).

[Karlos]

iNtel :lol:

Somebody in apple's marketing department needs brutally murdering and their tattered remains stringing up along the main corridor along with a sign, forged from the entrails, reading: "Use the fricking 'i' prefix one more time, you motherf***ers, I dare you! I double dare you!"

...

sorry, I dunno what came over me there...

[bloodline]

Karlos wrote:
iNtel :lol:

Somebody in apple's marketing department needs brutally murdering and their tattered remains stringing up along the main corridor along with a sign, forged from the entrails, reading: "Use the fricking 'i' prefix one more time, you motherf***ers, I dare you! I double dare you!"

...

sorry, I dunno what came over me there...

Perhaps we should ask the iProphet (iPBUH) ;-)

[bloodline]

Just a quickie to note that the new MacBooks started shipping yesterday!

I've already earmarked funds for a MacBook and Logic 7.2! My GF isn't happy, for some reason she wants to waste my money on a house  :-?

[The_Editor]

Stick to your guns !!

buy the house and she will expect you to decorate it ....

And so on and so forth..  Never ending expense !!

[bloodline]

The_Editor wrote:

Stick to your guns !!

buy the house and she will expect you to decorate it ....

And so on and so forth..  Never ending expense !!

:lol: Why doesn't she understand the value of a MacBook Pro?

I love the ironic title of this thread :-D