Yeah, it supports intel chips because Apple computers run on Intel. What about your ram, graphics card, audio card, hdd, etc? It's just very risky. There's a good chance for maybe the first few months it will work perfectly fine and you'll love it, but Apple isn't just going to let this continue on. They are absolutely going to do something about it. I don't know when, but it's going to happen. This project is still young but it's beginning to pick up a lot steam and Apple is going to have to put the coals out
I guess there is hell lot of misconception about vista. I am using vista and it is running perfectly with an inbuilt graphic card which simply means you dont need any external graphic card. Also it is working on 2 GB with a simple usage of 48% of physical memory. I am using vista ultimate...... Now what do you say????
I have 1Gb ram, onboard graphics (for now), 73Gb SCSI Hard drive. Only thing I think that will cause a problem, is the 2 physical processors. I'm not sure if Mac will allow that.
In all honesty, I doubt I can afford an upgrade to put all 3 of my computers on Vista. Whereas Mac would only cost £129 for 5!
Installing Mac OS on PC is absolutely illegal. Although Mac OS can be install on Wintel platform, it doesn't mean you can install it on your PC. Read the Mac OS Eula first : http://www.apple.com/legal/sla/macosx.html And if you still want to install Mac OS on your PC and go against the law, you should question yourself, does your graphics card, sound card and network card driver available for Mac OS? If you want to stay on low budget, just use Linux.
I don't understand how linux works with a desktop, for example how to install things. I can just get by using SSH to control a server, but not a clue when it comes to a desktop. Dynashox: Thanks for that. Repped! Glad I read that now. Linux it is . Which distro is best? I'm looking at Fedora, Cent OS and Ubuntu.
Installing applications on Linux system is easy nowadays. It have the add/remove program where you can install application easily just like you are using Windows. Buy any linux book or just search for "how to install software/apps on linux" on Google and you'll get plenty of result for it. I have experience using Fedora and Ubuntu, so can't recommend you any distro from these two.
You should download Ubuntu and do a few hours work with it. It's a surprisingly nice experience, and very easy and friendly to get started with. I've been running a dual boot Ubuntu/XP system for a while now - and once you spend a few hours playing around with Linux, it all kinda 'clicks' and becomes very easy to use. Even all the command line stuff is much easier than it first seems - and you don't really even need to do that unless you're tweaking stuff.
Oh those discs! I remember being sent a few boxes of them at my house! I'm really stuck between Fedora and Ubuntu now!
Fedora or Ubuntu - only you will be able to tell what you like the best Try the live DVD versions of both then decide (ie: you run it off the DVD without having to install anything to your hard drive). To get an Ubuntu CD shipped to you for free visit https://shipit.ubuntu.com/ (may take a while though).
That is bare! You could even make a live USB (assuming the server has a USB port and a BIOS that supports booting off USB devices) and test out both distros. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraLiveCD/USBHowTo https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LiveUsbPendrivePersistent The great thing about live USB devices is everything lives on the USB, so it's an OS in your pocket that you can take around with you. For an easy intro into liveUSB, I can highly recommend Slax (http://www.slax.org/).
Definately Linux but I'd avoid Fedora as it's quite tricky to set up. As others have already said try Ubuntu
Linux isn't the best operating system for the average user. Unless you're a hacker or programmer, it's just a waste of time.