[Tfug] 2 weeks of Hackintosh fun..

[Joshua Zeidner]

On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 3:23 PM, Bowie J. Poag <bpoag at comcast.net> wrote:

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>> 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.
>>
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>
> 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.



  When did Microsoft sell hardware?

  -jmz


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>  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.
>>
>>
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> 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.
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>   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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