This was your initial comment. *I see the "hobbyist" excuse for buying PCs instead of Macs quite often. It's a misconception*.
This is the comment I've been working from, I didn't buy a pc or a mac, I said I was building them. I've said repeatedly I've built to run OS X to solaris to windows or linux. If you *start* with a mac, you've had to have bought a complete computer at one point, I haven't bought a whole system in 15 years. On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 6:26 PM, b_s-wilk <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't have any misconceptions, I don't have a mac tower laying around to >> build some hacintosh. I get most my computer parts either free or >> wholesale...I've built a whitebox hacintosh. I've said that twice. I >> don't >> know why you keep pushing the mac angle. Hardware hobbyists are not going >> to buy a 2500 dollar mac tower and then six months later tear it down and >> put new hardware into it... >> > > You didn't follow my comment. Nobody who wants to build a computer to run > Mac software has to start with an old Mac. You can use any old or new box or > build your own box. Then you can put all of the parts inside--free or > wholesale--same as you do now. The point is that both the process and the > parts can be the same for either system. > > Why do you keep talking about starting with a $2500 Mac tower? You could > put mostly generic and scrounged parts along with an Intel processor > [nothing Mac/Apple specific] into an old fishtank if you wanted, then make > it water cooled. No old Mac or Mac parts required. No investment in a Mac > tower or Mac of any kind. It's the same as building a PC, including most of > the same parts, and then it could run multiple systems. > > Ever build a mechanical computer? Did that as a high school project with my > brother many years ago. Didn't require any parts from old computers or > anything special off the shelf. Was mostly wood. > > > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* > ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
