how good is my new pc?

bigboi972 said:

And what makes you say macs are a waste of money im curious i dont know mutch about em

If you don't know much about them, why do you think you would want to buy a MAC? Seems to be a foolish purchase without doing some research and finding out whether a MAC would meet the requirements that you have of a personal computing machine.

And these others guys are discussing a "hackintosh", which is a hack to allow you to run the OSX software on a PC. At best, it's functional...but it's particular about the exact hardware, versions, firmwares, etc. It's not like any 'ole pc will just run it. The other option is to spend time trying to setup a virtual machine running OSX...and if you do manage to accomplish it, it will be so horrendously slow you will be pissed that you spent the time to get it working in the first place.

The other option is to spend time trying to setup a virtual machine running OSX...and if you do manage to accomplish it, it will be so horrendously slow you will be pissed that you spent the time to get it working in the first place.

pparks, Just curious - what makes you think it would be slow. I run Ubuntu in Virtual Box and with most applications it is actually faster than my native Win7 - and I gave vBox only 1GB of RAM. Only Firefox is slow. But I solved that with Chrome and that is lightning fast.

I am running Snow Leopard on my Dell Mini 9 netbook and it is pretty nifty but I don't think I could ever go to OSX exclusively since I like Windows too much.

Zepher said:

I am running Snow Leopard on my Dell Mini 9 netbook and it is pretty nifty but I don't think I could ever go to OSX exclusively since I like Windows too much.

Question, are you running it "native" in lieu of Win7 or Linux or do you run it from a stick. And how much did you pay for Snow Leapard - is $29 the right price?

whs said:

Zepher said:

I am running Snow Leopard on my Dell Mini 9 netbook and it is pretty nifty but I don't think I could ever go to OSX exclusively since I like Windows too much.

Question, are you running it "native" in lieu of Win7 or Linux or do you run it from a stick. And how much did you pay for Snow Leapard - is $29 the right price?

It is running native and it was $29+tax since I bought it locally at Best Buy.
OSX runs better on my Mini than Windows 7 Ultimate did. I was quite surprised.

here it is on my desk on the bottom left,

Very nice. I might try that one day in a Virtual system. And the Snow Leopard is my favorite cat.
You have quite a setup with your main system too - congratulations. Unfortunately I have no space for a second or third monitor. The wife needs all the space for crafting - LOL.

thanks. I wish I had 3 matching monitors though. I did have 2 matching 19" LG's but one of them died and LG sent me the newer 19" model (the right monitor) so I then bought a 20" of the same style when it was on sale.
The left screen (Samsung) is my monitor I use when I fix PC's and it would sit in the corner, so I decided to make space on the desk and run triples.

dual LG, 20" and 19"
http://transamws6.com/pics/pc/2009/desk-2009.jpg

the matching 19" LG screen setup,
http://transamws6.com/pics/pc/desk-11-06.jpg

Samsung CRT Duals,
http://transamws6.com/pics/pc/desk-06.jpg

and my classic dual setup from 2001
http://transamws6.com/pics/pc/desk_2001.jpg