I am so sad I didn't just pick up the previous revision...
So what is stopping you? It will be available for awhile and probably at a significant discount. That is how I picked up my pre-unibody MBP for $1450 just days after the new uni-body came out. There is no better time to buy the old models, ESPECIALLY when the new ones suck.
will run Windows on it because I must run Visual Studio (ok ok, I'll leave OSX in just in case), and to be honest, I don't care about the OS.
To me, the OS is everything. I don't care about the hardware beyond if it meets my needs and is a reasonable price. Even so, XP isn't the horrible OS some Mac fans make it out to be. Windows98 WAS pretty horrible, but then it wasn't any worse than OS9 (if not better in many ways, IMO). Vista, though is a bear. I'll reserve judgment on Windows 7 until I see what the final revision can do. It doesn't hurt that have a computer that can run both, though. I don't believe Final Cut Pro (Studio) or Logic Pro 9 are available for Windows, though so I have a couple of good reasons to run OS X beyond my preference for the interface and at least a partial belief that a Unix based system will usually be more reliable to run for extended lengths of time without a reboot (e.g. for my whole house audio server on my PowerMac) than a non-Unix one like Windows. More than a few kernel panics and freezes, however, have convinced me that Leopard is FAR from perfect, though. I've found Tiger on the PowerMac to be more reliable, but I'm fast approaching a few situations and even a few software applications that don't run on Tiger (any longer at least in the latest incarnations).
You're right. And if you erroneously put a bad driver (which is not uncommon):
[lots of blue screen of death examples]
That doesn't happen with Macs.
No, you get a freeze or a kernel panic INSTEAD (and not because of bad drivers, necessarily, but often "just because" it seems on my Macs). Those are always FUN...just as much as the blue screens of death. Macs aren't perfect and those issues have NOTHING to do with the hardware anyway. It's an OS issue. If you put OS X on a Dell with compatible hardware, it'll run just as well as on an Apple, despite what the many fanboys on here who have very poor knowledge of computers seem to think.
Really? your whole mac freezes? Restart without warning? I've never heard of such a thing in a decade of Mac use. The great part about Macs is if one app freezes it doesn't take down the OS with it. Just force quit the app, nothing else affected. That's my experience. The only time a Mac has ever restarted arbitrarily is when I didn't have the power cord plugged in all the way. You might want to check your connection.
You've never HEARD of such a thing in a decade of Mac use?? What planet have YOU been living on? I've never had a restart without warning, but I've had plenty of freezes (had two just the other day while trying to edit with Final Cut Pro 6 on my MBP; total freeze up without warning. It seems OS X doesn't like a journaled USB 2.0 external drive...well I'm guessing that's it from what I've been reading. I've had a dozen kernel panics on my PowerMac in the past year and a half and at least 3 on my MBP purchased last October (these are not Hackintoshes, but real Apple hardware too [gasp]. Macs and OS X are FAR from the perfection some of you IMAGINE it to be. Get with reality.
As for all the pooh pooh about Hackintoshes in general, I'm tired of hearing excuses and apologies for why Apple hardware is STILL insanely overpriced. At least when they were using PPC, they could try and get you to believe it was because it's an uncommon platform and so prices are higher and margins are lower. Just taking a look at Apple's RECORD BREAKING PROFITS during a GLOBAL RECESSION should indicate to a person exactly how HIGH those margins currently are. The price increases (while simultaneously fighting Psystar to prevent ANY competition for hardware to run OS X) during this recession show a level of greed even Bill Gates couldn't hope to ever match. They're using the same cheap clone hardware Dell uses and charging twice as much and people are defending them as somehow having magical hardware. WTF!? I knew fanboys had a tendency to be overzealous, but clearly it's more like living in a dream world of pure blissful ignorance of reality.
Based on other comments here, it's very obvious the 'average' Mac user knows very little about computers in general and so many don't even REALIZE how much they're getting ripped off. They just pay whatever Apple asks and drink some Kool-Aid and tell us how great Macs are. The problem (for Apple) is that over 40% of Apple's new computer sales in the past year or two have been to switchers from the Windows world who are not happy with Vista and can plainly see OS X is the superior OS (at least until Windows 7 comes out, if not longer) and many of them are NOT ignorant about computer hardware and along with the more informed Mac users are the ones screaming in these threads about Apple's complete loss of touch with reality. The ones defending Apple are the ones that don't know and don't care about hardware.
