And what an effort <smile>
Well I guess (and this is only going on my experiences with Apple
products over 20 years), that building a Mac is a foreign idea to
allot of people as they've always come in a box, off a shelf in a
department store, of course (and this I think is still the case today
in many places), whe nI first remember buying an Apple 2/E 20 years
ago you went to a specific specialest computer store, saw the Apple
demonstrated, you purchased the machine as is in a box and then
purchased the appropriate accessories or cards to put into the system.
Now I'm wondering whether Apple have such a tight control over all
this brings us some very good advantages? I mean you often hear of
bad people who say they know what they're doing when it comes to
building computers and all they do is turn out lemons, etc but you
don't hear that sort of thing when it comes to buying a Mac, ok you
get crook machines of course but in general, the Mac is ready to go
the moment its taken out of the box, plugged in and switched on, can
you say the same thing for many people who build P
C'S?
On 30/04/2006, at 6:08 AM, Karen Lewellen wrote:
In an effort to add something educational here, what is the
difference between what he is suggesting, and say upgrading an
older mac to a newer one? Others have done this on this list or
have referenced as much.
building a pc from parts is not uncommon, so I can understand the
spirit of the goal, but not why the idea is such an odd one where
macs are concerned?
Just wondering,
Karen
On Sat, 29 Apr 2006, David Poehlman wrote:
You might save 200 dollars or so, but what about that warranty?
What about all the time and effort? Sheesh, oh, and you have to
buy the us.
On Apr 29, 2006, at 2:42 PM, hank wrote:
hello I was looking around on the osx86project.org site and it
mentioned building a mac pc out of intel parts.
1. there any one doing this currently?
2. if this is possible, would it run tiger, or would I have to
result to using hacked version of osx?
am trying to find out the cheapest way to get my mac legally oviously
if I can build my own using parts, then purchase tiger I would be
saving 200 bucks or so.
let me know
thanks
hank
