Ben, that just doesn't make sense. Your not going to find a PC with the same features or design of a Mac Pro. If you truly had a need for a Mac Pro, you'd purchase one, but such a machine is not generally necessary unless you again have a real need such as maybe for video/ sound editing and I"m talking more in a professional studio setting or perhaps a server. I don't see any benefit in spending that kind of money for a machine with two duo core processors to read e-mail, surf the web, maybe run a couple VMs etc. You could easily use an iMac or MBP for this. Of course my opinion, but then running the Mac os on some other hardware just doesn't make sense and that is my entire point. You need that much horsepower, you'll spend the money because the need would be compelling. Of course what I spent on my 15-inch MBP, I could have gotten a introductory Mac Pro. :) On Aug 21, 2009, at 9:10 PM, ben mustill-rose wrote:
> > I'm sure the mac pro is a lovely machine, but I still stand by my > opinion that I posted a week or 2 ago - the mac pro is stupidly > expencive. I'm happy to buy leopard / snow leopard, ilife and iwork, > but if I ever wanted the sort of power the mac pro offers i'd go the > hackintosh root. As a side note, i'd be perfectly happy to buy the os > for it, just not the hardware. > Don't get me wrong, apple are a great company and its things like tdm > and vo jure in install that I love, I just don't have the inclination > to buy apple hardware. > > Thanks for the pointers everyone; i'll be sure to give them a try and > post back my results. > > On 22/08/2009, Daniel Crone <quirky.wiz...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> My machine that I would like to get one day would be the Mac Pro, the >> tower. >> On Aug 21, 2009, at 4:57 PM, Scott Chesworth wrote: >> >>> >>> No need to be so warey Daniel. If you can find your way around >>> inside >>> a pc, you'd be fine taking a poke about in a mac should your >>> curiosity >>> ever get the better of you. The first time I opened up one of those >>> big old beast G4's I was pleasantly surprised, it's like the tidiest >>> of pc interior design just got tidier... if that makes any sense at >>> all. Everything was quite easy to fathom out, and the design was >>> overall much more rugged and well thought out than any pc I've ever >>> seen, certainly more than any pc I've built lol. >>> >>> Anyway, just a quick bit of reassurance, should you ever need to >>> upgrade anything. >>> >>> Scott >>> >>> On 8/21/09, Daniel Crone <quirky.wiz...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> I have opened up a p c, but I would think twice before opening any >>>> mac. >>>> On Aug 21, 2009, at 1:41 PM, ben mustill-rose wrote: >>>> >>>>> >>>>> Drive replacement on the emac is dooable but apple don't want >>>>> you to >>>>> do it. Opening it up is the easy part, but theres quite a lot of >>>>> stuff >>>>> inside it which is in the way of the drive. Your probably not >>>>> going to >>>>> break anything by having a look inside it so theres no harm in >>>>> giving >>>>> it a go. >>>>> >>>>> On 21/08/2009, Daniel Crone <quirky.wiz...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> Wow! Did not know you could replace a drive in an emac. >>>>>> Is it hard to open one up? >>>>>> On Aug 21, 2009, at 12:55 PM, ben mustill-rose wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Hey and thanks for the reply. >>>>>>> Both machines are tiger machines - I use the emac for audio and >>>>>>> not >>>>>>> much else so I figgured that i'd opt for a faster os with less >>>>>>> features since I wouldn't be using many of the features in >>>>>>> leopard - >>>>>>> its a g4 1.42. >>>>>>> The harddrive is a 80gb soon to be replaced with a nice and fast >>>>>>> 250 >>>>>>> 7200rpm. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On 21/08/2009, Daniel Crone <quirky.wiz...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> I doubt you could boot using a Tiger machine. Leopard was >>>>>>>> written >>>>>>>> for >>>>>>>> the Intel chip set. >>>>>>>> Also, how large is the hard drive of the emac? >>>>>>>> On Aug 21, 2009, at 9:13 AM, ben mustill-rose wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Hey all. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> I have a ibook with no harddrive in it. Before I delv into its >>>>>>>>> internals I want to make sure that all the existing parts have >>>>>>>>> no >>>>>>>>> strange faults that would render the system unusable when it >>>>>>>>> has a >>>>>>>>> harddrive in it. I'd like to be able to connect the ibook to >>>>>>>>> my >>>>>>>>> emac >>>>>>>>> and use the tiger install on the emac to boot the ibook but >>>>>>>>> i'm >>>>>>>>> getting conflicting messages about if this can be done or not. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> I'd be interested in hearing from anyone that has done this >>>>>>>>> before - >>>>>>>>> what exactly did you do? did osx find sound drivers? >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Fyi, I did try connecting a drive via usb and installing tiger >>>>>>>>> on it >>>>>>>>> but it appears that osx can only boot from firewire volumes. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Thanks for reading, BEN. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> -- >>>>>>> Kind regards, BEN. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> email: bmustillr...@gmail.com >>>>>>> msn: benmustillr...@hotmail.com >>>>>>> web: http://www.bmr.me.uk (under construction) >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Kind regards, BEN. >>>>> >>>>> email: bmustillr...@gmail.com >>>>> msn: benmustillr...@hotmail.com >>>>> web: http://www.bmr.me.uk (under construction) >>>>> >>>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> >>>> >>> >>>> >> >> >>> >> > > > -- > Kind regards, BEN. > > email: bmustillr...@gmail.com > msn: benmustillr...@hotmail.com > web: http://www.bmr.me.uk (under construction) > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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