Re: OT - mac osx licensing

2008-06-04 Thread Rick Womer
Scott, We have a G3 that has been unemployed since we got our G5 a few years ago. If you want it, it's yours. Rick --- Scott Loveless <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Adam Maas wrote: > > First off, it's not a good idea performance-wise. > There isn't a > > PowerPC emulator with anything approachi

Re: OT - mac osx licensing

2008-06-04 Thread Scott Loveless
Adam Maas wrote: > First off, it's not a good idea performance-wise. There isn't a > PowerPC emulator with anything approaching decent performance, even on > a fast PC you're going to be looking at performance similar to a > PPC604e at best. You might be able to get a usable OS9 boot, but OS X > is

Re: OT - mac osx licensing

2008-06-04 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
On Jun 4, 2008, at 10:41 AM, Scott Loveless wrote: > Gots another questions for the Mac crowd. > > In the very near future I'm going to attempt to run OSX via a PowerPC > emulator on a PC with Linux. Sounds fun, don't it? Doesn't sound like fun to me at all. Sounds like a huge waste of time.

Re: OT - mac osx licensing

2008-06-04 Thread Adam Maas
First off, it's not a good idea performance-wise. There isn't a PowerPC emulator with anything approaching decent performance, even on a fast PC you're going to be looking at performance similar to a PPC604e at best. You might be able to get a usable OS9 boot, but OS X is gonna suck massively on an

OT - mac osx licensing

2008-06-04 Thread Scott Loveless
Gots another questions for the Mac crowd. In the very near future I'm going to attempt to run OSX via a PowerPC emulator on a PC with Linux. Sounds fun, don't it? In an effort to not spend much money on this, because I'm not sure that I can get it to work, what are my options for buying a pre