Turning a PC into a MAC

mrochester

I've tried running OSX on my desktop PC in the past, and much like Linux, it's a royal pain in the bum to get working. I'd personally only ever use OSX on an Apple computer; you save yourself so much time and hassle.

Mr_Toad

Entimp wrote: »

Cant imagine why anyone would want an Apple product in the first place. The days are long gone where you needed a mac for video/music production.

For much the same reason that people choose anything from clothes to cars. It's not about what you think, it's about what they think and the right choice is personal to each person.

If everyone thought the same we'd all be wearing the same clothes, driving the same car and eating the same food.

tombruton87

Apple don't always use amazing parts. Hackintoshes are a pain if you are installing onto a current pc if you design one to work with it, it can be pleasent.

There is no logical reason to want thunderbolt on a mac it is a pointless port. macs are only using sata2, there usb3 drivers are better atm so its actually a touch faster in 99% of situations.

If you look around you can get a good 27" ips monitor for around 400 quid.

I hardly use windows but it is faster than OSX lion and mountain lion.

People feel they need to say OSX is better to justify why they spent a thousand pound on there mac. I have never paid full price for a mac product but this is how I justify spending more. You get better casing than cheaper laptops (asus zenbook is better built than mac pro but you pay for it) choice of OS, the track pad is better than any windows machine.

However I do hate Apple because they are lazy theifing mother fudgers but thats for another time

RobTang

I have a love hate relationship with the mac trackpad.

Its awesome for browsing the web.

And kinda a pain for almost everything else, its just because the click takes too much pressure, making dragging anthing around a pain (and doesn't support the windows double tap to drag), its just about bareable with clip to tap enabled.

Many of its gestures are not universal over even Apple apps.
Lauchpad, show desktop, notifications gesture is a bit hit and miss.

it dones't support regional clicks in osx (dispite the mouse does, and does in bootcamp)

If you only browse the web its great, anthing else I NEED a mouse, most windows laptops I can get by on just the trackpad.

mrochester

RobTang wrote: »

I have a love hate relationship with the mac trackpad.

Its awesome for browsing the web.

And kinda a pain for almost everything else, its just because the click takes too much pressure, making dragging anthing around a pain (and doesn't support the windows double tap to drag), its just about bareable with clip to tap enabled.

Many of its gestures are not universal over even Apple apps.
Lauchpad, show desktop, notifications gesture is a bit hit and miss.

it dones't support regional clicks in osx (dispite the mouse does, and does in bootcamp)

If you only browse the web its great, anthing else I NEED a mouse, most windows laptops I can get by on just the trackpad.

Turn on 3 finger drag?

RobTang

mrochester wrote: »

Turn on 3 finger drag?

Accuracy is terrible, however much fun it is watching whatever i drag drunkly stumble around the screen

C_Mababejive

Why do either when you can upgrade to linux

https://www.ubuntu.com

fishybusiness

Why do either when you can upgrade to linux

Wouldn't say that is an upgrade, more an alternative view of the world

Not mainstream enough for me.

mrochester

C_Mababejive wrote: »

Why do either when you can upgrade to linux

https://www.ubuntu.com

I'd call that a major downgrade from both Windows and OSX!

Notmyrealname

tombruton87 wrote: »

You get better casing than cheaper laptops (asus zenbook is better built than mac pro but you pay for it) choice of OS, the track pad is better than any windows machine.

There speaks someone who has never taken either laptop apart side by side and compared them. For example, the Asus like all Windows consumer grade laptops, will use a small channel in the palmrest with little plastic tabs sticking out and occassional strips of sellotape to secure the overly long screen and wifi cables. The Macbook Pro uses alloy clamps to secure the short cables which run to headers on the mainboard as close as it is feasibly possible to have them. Certainly when it comes to wifi, there's a lot of feeder losses in your typical Windows laptop due to the fact the cable from the antennas to the wifi card is double the length of those in a Macbook Pro.

I've yet to find one single consumer grade laptop with the same build quality as a Macbook Pro. Once you get to business grade then you're at a similar level but not consumer grade.