Yeah this is what I get for posting under the influence of cafiene, later I saw
in the blenderartists thread where it was pointed out that an update could
brick your box, as well as just refusing to update as Mike mentioned.
JF
Michael Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I would have to agree with many of
Ben's points. I do caution anyone
thinking of buying one of the machines from Psystar. I say this
because there motherboards have a normal PC Bios and do not have the
Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) on board. The way they (Psystar)
is getting around this is by installing a EFI emulator on the system.
This then brings me to this, if apple ever figured they want to
enforce there OS-X EULA and stop updates to non-Apple hardware.
Wikipedia has a nice page on EFI for anyone wanting to know more about
EFI.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensible_Firmware_Interface
-Miller
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 12:09 PM, Ben Barrett wrote:
> Well those certainly look cheaper than Mac Pro's... but what is it
> about them that's better than running OS X on any other PC hardware?
> Their own company's support?
>
> I would be curious to see any new [intel-based esp] PC hardware which
> was *not* capable of running the Leopard kernel. In any case, a
> usable system will be at the mercy of all the I/O support ;)
> You're not going to get support from Apple if you run their software
> on non-Apple hardware anyway, AFAICT.
>
> I saw a 10.4 install cleanly on a Dell subnotebook a while back; the
> only hitch was that neither the sound nor wifi worked out of the box.
> I was impressed, due to a variety of difficult linux installs I had
> earlier this decade.
> I presume that things are even better now, all around. Yeah, I'm
> typing this on an iMac, so grill me for it if ya like, but I think I'd
> much rather run VMware than dual-boot. IMHO, dual-booting has very
> narrow application (recovery/utility partitions, true dual&separate
> use systems, etc) and virtualization plus cheaper memory has made
> things a lot easier for us all. I think my iMac is a pretty stellar
> piece of hardware, and its design awards agree, although I'd kill for
> 16GB of RAM and a quad-core... I digress, but for people like us (I
> have more than a few other PC's around) I think cheap commodity
> hardware is the best value in a workstation.
> Related, those 8800 cards look great, I read some CAD support forums
> about them and I think they only failed on some
> intersection/solid-overlap tests. I'm curious about
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropia_Universe vs
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Life in the competition for the
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_world of choice... does anyone
> have any feedback about the Havok engine vs CryEngine2 ???
>
> ~ben
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 11:43 AM, john fleming wrote:
> >
> http://www.psystar.com/index.php?&page=shop.product_details&flypage=flypage_images.tpl&product_id=19&category_id=3&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=72
> > Anyone looking at these? Makes a triple boot system look reasonable,
> > finally. They are legit aren't they? They just have the two desktop models
> > for now, perhaps laptops in the future?
> > JF
> >
>
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