Well those certainly look cheaper than Mac Pro's... but what is it about them that's better than running OS X on any other PC hardware? Their own company's support?
I would be curious to see any new [intel-based esp] PC hardware which was *not* capable of running the Leopard kernel. In any case, a usable system will be at the mercy of all the I/O support ;) You're not going to get support from Apple if you run their software on non-Apple hardware anyway, AFAICT. I saw a 10.4 install cleanly on a Dell subnotebook a while back; the only hitch was that neither the sound nor wifi worked out of the box. I was impressed, due to a variety of difficult linux installs I had earlier this decade. I presume that things are even better now, all around. Yeah, I'm typing this on an iMac, so grill me for it if ya like, but I think I'd much rather run VMware than dual-boot. IMHO, dual-booting has very narrow application (recovery/utility partitions, true dual&separate use systems, etc) and virtualization plus cheaper memory has made things a lot easier for us all. I think my iMac is a pretty stellar piece of hardware, and its design awards agree, although I'd kill for 16GB of RAM and a quad-core... I digress, but for people like us (I have more than a few other PC's around) I think cheap commodity hardware is the best value in a workstation. Related, those 8800 cards look great, I read some CAD support forums about them and I think they only failed on some intersection/solid-overlap tests. I'm curious about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropia_Universe vs http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Life in the competition for the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_world of choice... does anyone have any feedback about the Havok engine vs CryEngine2 ??? ~ben On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 11:43 AM, john fleming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://www.psystar.com/index.php?&page=shop.product_details&flypage=flypage_images.tpl&product_id=19&category_id=3&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=72 > Anyone looking at these? Makes a triple boot system look reasonable, > finally. They are legit aren't they? They just have the two desktop models > for now, perhaps laptops in the future? > JF > _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
