[Tfug] 2 weeks of Hackintosh fun..

[Bowie J. Poag]

>
> Oh, it's worse than that.  What you have with a Hackintosh is
> fundamentally unstable in that you're just one update from blowup.
> Apple WILL kill off the OSX Hackintosh community eventually.
>   

Doubtful. It has too much momentum now. I actually think the opposite 
might occur -- enough people build Hackintoshes that Apple eventually 
moves in the same direction that Microsoft did back in the 80's -- They 
moved from a mixed hardware/software company to a purely software 
company. The cat's out of the bag.



> I'm running Ubuntu (now at Intrepid) VERY successfully with a $500
> (five or six months ago) Dell low-end lappy.  It can't run OSX.
> Despite the low price point, I'm NOT doing just low-end stuff on it -
> with 2gigs RAM Virtualbox/WinXP runs great on this low-end dual core
> processor.
>
>   
I've got a Compaq Presario C700 -- Bought it at Best Buy about 2-3 
months ago for $350. Everything on it works with the exception of the 
onboard WiFi, which isn't a big deal, since I can just go out and buy a 
USB wifi adapter (which I did..) ....Hell, even the graphics 
acceleration works.  Try to match the specs of the laptop you buy with 
the OSx86 HCL... I just happen to be lucky to have ended up buying a 
laptop that was A) cheap, B) well built, and C) largely Hackintosh-able.

> I *cannot* afford a Mac lappy, and I need a lappy.  So what am I
> supposed to do?  Vista?  Oh hell no.
>
> With Intrepid (Xorg 7.4/Xserver 1.5.2/Intel965), dual-screen support
> is now every bit as clean as on a Mac (FINALLY!).  Connecting to the
> net through a cellular modem or cellphone is as clean as WiFi has been
> for a good while now.
>
> Like hell we're not close.
>
> If Ubuntu does Jaunty right, all they'll need is some speed tweaks and
> reliability stuff without expanding the feature set other than
> whatever the upstream comes up with, and dayum...
>
> I'm not saying OSX ain't "all that", although I would hate a
> one-button mouse.
You do realize, OS X supports two-button mice OOTB, right? I was using 
OS X on my laptop for a week before I realized that, hey, OS X didn't 
complain when it saw I was using a two-button trackpad. I'd been using 
the right and left mousebuttons as I always have on any other platform. 
Seamless.


>   But not everybody can afford Apple hardware and
> some have bought into high-end hardware that can't be Hackintoshed.
> For us, there's Linux, and it doesn't suck.
>
> Jim March
>
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