Surprisingly well. Using SATA drives, a DVD burner, NVidia PCIe, all
of it off the shelf. Onboard sound works, but the enet and video are
DOA. Using USB 802.11n to hook to the Airport Extreme. Dual Monitor
off the video card. Hardware is only an issue doing the install of
OSX. I have not been able to get Snow Leopard to behave on it yet.
All System Updates load as if on a Mac Pro. All software sees it as a
Mac. Using the Dell, you can dual boot into either winblows or OS X.
I did not, but one could set up a disk for each OS. There is
onboard RAID, but I am not using it.
Clay
On Jun 27, 2010, at 3:30 PM, archer wrote:
A hackintosh 10.5.8 on a dell tower? Does it work well?
Gerry
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From: "redghost" <redgh...@comcast.net>
To: "Mercedes Discussion List" <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
Sent: Sunday, June 27, 2010 4:00 PM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT external HDs ?? + bit of benz content.
OS x plays well with hardware that approximates that used in a Mac.
The more off standard you go, the less likely it will install and run
as it should. Large community of hackers out there making all the
odd
hardware more compatible. I am running 10.5.8 on a dell tower. Many
work around solutions to get fully performance.
Clay
On Jun 26, 2010, at 5:50 AM, archer wrote:
archer wrote:
I have a fairly new Macbook running OSX Snow Leopard and a PC
running XP. Is there any way they can mirror each other?
<rant mode>
Apple made the original PC. PC = Personal Computer. As opposed
to a main frame or server. And now the hardware isn't even
really that different. So a new PC could be running Microsoft
Windows, OSX, Linux, or BSD.
</rant mode>
G: Last I heard some time ago, Apple OS's didn't work too well on a
non-Apple PC. Maybe that's changed.
Mirror... So you want the same data available to both computers?
G: Yes. Identical data on both hds.
OSX runs "samba", which is better for MS Windows network sharing
than MS Windows. Set it up so a directory (folder) on your OSX
computer is shared via samba. Set up the WinXP with "map
network drive" to make that OSX shared folder show up as "S:",
or whatever.
Or are you wanting an external drive to be able to move between
the two computers and both access the same data?
G: No. Want to avoid having external drive.
Or do you mean something else?
I think the best option is to run a virtual machine with OSX as
the host and Win XP as the guest. Do what you must in MS Win,
but all the rest of what needs to be done on a computer can be
outside of MS world.
-- Philip
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I would like to "mirror" the hds in the two computers. When
something is added to the Apple hd it will also be added to the
windows hd. When something is added to the windows hd it will also
be added to the Apple hd; i.e. each computer will be the backup for
the other; just like in a server with mirrored hds. If one hd self
destructs all the data will be on the other hd. The idea is to
avoid having an external drive, cables, etc.
Gerry
'83 300D and 240D
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