g5 or hackintosh

[booksacool1]

Well i've been running a hackintosh since 2006 now, and its been great. Its a bit more maintenance than your normal pc or mac.

Boot loader f***s up every now and again, but a quick shot of acronis fixes that normally (too lazy to set up something better, i.e. a dedicated darwin bootloader).

The intel-brand motherboard (d945gnt) decided to give up on me earlier this year. Shoved in a $30 MSI 945 based motherboard, both OSX and XP took it without any problems whatsoever. Might warranty the intel one still, but then I go from a dead POS to a working POS.

HDD decided to report a SMART error. Stupid Seagate... So I grabbed a 500gb samsung (great value atm ) and used the osx installer to carry all my data off the 80gb drive that was in there originally.

But yeah despite these small setbacks, I've still got a blazing fast hackintosh. It cost me $800 aud back in 2006, which was basically just for a bunch of pc parts.

 

[heatmiser]

I briefly did the hackintosh thing with one of my Gateways this summer. Couldn't get sound or wireless, so I went back to Windows. If more Win laptops were 90%+ compatible with OS X, I'd probably buy one and have a blast. The combination of OS X software and PC-priced hardware is part of what makes OSx86 so attractive. Until that day comes, though, if you want OS X on a laptop, you're better off with a Mac.

 

[Sesshi]

Wow. You complain that MBPs are fragile and then you plan on replacing them with Vostros? Come to think of it, my boombox sounds bad, so I guess I'll throw it out and get a clock radio.

If you want to take a far more accurate analogy to it, the Dells are the Toyota Land Cruisers to the MBP's BMW X5, where the 'Pro' moniker determines an off-road car.

Now obviously whether you love the X5 or not depends on whether you are the chattering soccer mom of the computing world.