Anyone recently made the move from a Mac to a PC?

Sonny Forelli

Sonny Forelli

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I've needed a main workstation since November, have been waiting for the elusive mac pro update since that time and it's evident this isn't happening any time soon.

Short of dropping $3k for a 18 month old system only to have the replacement show up any week/month now, I'm debating going the PC route.

Don't necessarily want to fuck around with the hackintosh scene and am debating, though not wanting to, ditch OSX entirely in favor of Windows 7.

Has anyone on here done this recently?

I'm so sick of Apple at this point on the hardware side that I'd gladly pay an extra $500 just for something I could dual boot into OSX with zero kext games straight from the manufacturer (like dell/hp). Unless it's a licensing thing I can't see why any PC manufacturer hasn't jumped on this trend and spec'd a workstation that will run OSX flawlessly.

Argh
 


Just my two cents but keep waiting for the update. You might regret no doing that
 
conv3rsion said:
Just my two cents but keep waiting for the update. You might regret no doing that
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The problem at this point is that it's negatively impacting my workflow. 80meg sliced site layouts see the spinning pinwheel of death that lasts for over a minute about once every 5.

I cannot afford to "just wait" as Job's put it in an email response if the team making iCrap decides that everyone can wait until September, or November, or later.

It's a shame as 3 years ago I moved back to apple entirely, even my wife's personal machine, router, phones, etc and absolutely loved the devices.

Last thing I want to do is go back to windows (though I hear 7 is great and I have a boxed copy of 'ultimate' sitting on my bookshelf <lolz- for the mac pro bootcamp install>), but I can get my greedy paws on a machine TODAY that will work.

At some point that's what it's going to come down to.
 
Just build yourself a PC with newegg parts and you'll have a beast, can be done for a fair price, (then hit up your favorite site for all your software needs).
 
If you're not using Final Cut or some other software you *must* have that's only available on OSX, then why are you even using a Mac?

Why do people insist on buying overpriced and underpowered bullshit?


My $1500 custom built PC will blow your $5,000 super mac out of the water. How does it feel spending $3,500 on a cool aluminum case?




























starting flame wars ftw :D
 
Move from OS X to Windows? Ha. Get off the crack dude.




j/p I love OS X and it will probably always be my primary os but win 7 is pretty decent. Just bought a new desktop PC for win 7 for the hell of it. Just go buy a PC to temporarily use (they're cheap) and when the new MBP finally comes out use the PC as a secondary computer. You can never have too many computers.
 
The hardware on macs are very overpriced. There's also a lot more software for PCs. My 700$ PC can run a ton of stuff at the same time very easily.
 
I love how everyone says the hardware is overpriced. Yeah, the hardware itself is overpriced.

However, a quad core chip running on OSX will produce a faster experience than dual quads on a windows setup due to the massive fucking RAM usage and memory leaks.
 
I'm actually about to by a MacBook Pro for college. Is there an update coming soon or something?
 
There are plenty of configurations that will run osx (basically) out of the box. Although it's unlikely that any will work 100% without any sort of kext patching, the scene has advanced pretty throughly in the past couple months.

There are several "hackintosh builds" that you can basically plop a snow leopard disc into, install and run a premade patch that will get everything working 100%.

If that sounds like too much work then your SOL.
 
I built a computer from newegg with 2 hard drives. One with a hacked version of mac hehe and one with windows 7.
 
Sonny Forelli said:
i'm referring to the mac pro, the tower, which hasn't seen an update in 18 months.

macbook pros were recently updated and I wouldn't hesitate to buy one.
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Thank Fucking God. I just bought a Macbook Pro. I read the thread and I was like what the fuck.. Then I read this and ... phew
 
thefallsman said:
I built a computer from newegg with 2 hard drives. One with a hacked version of mac hehe and one with windows 7.
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I want try building a PC from newegg.. just because I heard about it a lot on all the forums..

Is it intuitive, on the site itself, or is there anything I can read up to get the best build...?

is it like the Dell customization?? or you order the parts and assemble urself.. Like the assembled PCs of the late 90s?

Anyway I am trying it tonite..
 
Sonny Forelli said:
I'm so sick of Apple at this point on the hardware side that I'd gladly pay an extra $500 just for something I could dual boot into OSX with zero kext games straight from the manufacturer (like dell/hp). Unless it's a licensing thing I can't see why any PC manufacturer hasn't jumped on this trend and spec'd a workstation that will run OSX flawlessly.

Argh
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A third party manufacture has licensed Mac OS before... it sucked. I can only imagine how shitty OSX would run if you had HP trying to make a bunch of 450$ desktops preconfigured with OSX, and was built to a profit margin (ie: machine probably only cost them 100 less than that). The only real market, realistically speaking for OSX on a machine other than apple's would be in the "I can't afford shit , so gona see what the cheapest thing is down at best buy" market. since anything else isn't going to be a big enough market share.
Also apple is primarily a hardware company, so it makes sense to keep their best asset (the OS) on their hardware.
 
I would never ever ever buy a mac pro. That's the most overpriced piece of hardware I have ever seen, especially considering it's a desktop tower.

Ly2 has it right, unless you need Mac specific apps like Final Cut, just go with Windows. Way cheaper, way way cheaper.

Win 7 is pretty rock solid now, barely uses any RAM. I regularly have at least 1 VM, Photoshop and Illustrator cs5, skype, and firefox open and have never gotten within a Gig of my max ram (4 gigs ddr).
 
Bofu2U said:
I love how everyone says the hardware is overpriced. Yeah, the hardware itself is overpriced.

However, a quad core chip running on OSX will produce a faster experience than dual quads on a windows setup due to the massive fucking RAM usage and memory leaks.
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Hi there, professional computer repair technician here.

You have no idea what you're talking about.
 
dchuk said:
I would never ever ever buy a mac pro. That's the most overpriced piece of hardware I have ever seen, especially considering it's a desktop tower.

Ly2 has it right, unless you need Mac specific apps like Final Cut, just go with Windows. Way cheaper, way way cheaper.

Win 7 is pretty rock solid now, barely uses any RAM. I regularly have at least 1 VM, Photoshop and Illustrator cs5, skype, and firefox open and have never gotten within a Gig of my max ram (4 gigs ddr).
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I actually prefer Vista to 7. I run Vista x64 on my main desktop, W7 on my spare desktop and W7 on my laptop.
 
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