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SONY VAIO Running OSX 10.4.6 - BENCHMARKS
profit42.com — OSX 10.4.6, running on a Windows based Sony VAIO PCV-RZ504 benchmarked. Good article for those planning to install OSX on their PC, also nice for Mac owners wanting to compare their computer with an ordinary Intel based Sony.
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- JohnnySoftware, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Interesting. But, who is going to buy Mac OS X for $129 so they can install it on a PC, when for $599 they get it - and and a Mac designed/tested to run it?!
The $799 Mac Mini is benchmarked to run as fast as the fastest current PCs. I am suggesting my Mom buy one of these because her current PC is old and doing really strange things. She has had it 6 years and still does not know what a backslash is, what an installer is for, how to "uninstall" applications, and so forth. Plus, she has had to pay a lot of "hidden" costs the last couple of years for extra software. It would be easier for me and cheaper for her if she just ran OS X - on a Macintosh computer, of course.
So it would seem that while the struggle to get Mac OS X partially running on an off-brand PC was useful for acquiring benchmarks - it accomplishes the exact opposite of what most people would want to do. Which is run Mac OS X on a computer designed to run it, and possibly run Windows once in a blue moon as well.
Apple includes good tech support for free for a while and you can extend it for up to 3 years for a reasonable fee, which also extends the warranty. On an off-brand PC, companies charge the same price as Apple's extended warranty/tech-support subscription for a single tech support phone call, or else tell you to solve your problem by buying a new computer (from them).
I think it is pretty cool to publish the benchmarks for the sake of comparing. Of course, that assumes that nothing exercised in the benchmarks was "stubbed out" in the process of getting OS X to sort of run on the Sony PC.
I cannot see most companies wanting to run an OS on a computer that it is not tested on or designed for, especially when people are reporting it does not quite work and the OS supplier is saying they are not supporting it now and will not support it in the future.
And I sure would not want my relatives calling me up asking me why some obscure thing was not working when it all turned out to be some incompatible ASIC or device driver or missing circuitry. I am pretty sure there are circuits in the Mac that the Mac OS uses that are not in standard PCs, or supported by non-Apple BIOS ROMS.- ptoast, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The Mac Mini does not run as fast as the fastest current PCs. Thats... just rediculous.
- jgee, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1It'll be plenty fast for his mom though
- tsupersonic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Same question asked the other way, Who is going to pay $199 or $299 to run XP on a Mac, when you can do it for cheaper than a Mac Mini?
I don't know, I would definetly prefer Mac OS X running on a pc with Windows and dual boot it. Apple hardware is expensive and PC's are cheap and you can even build them yourselves. - SixSider, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This is more of looking at the comparisons than anything else.
Your point about the MacMini is a little off. A bench mark test that compares a MacMini + price for monitor + keyboard + mouse to a system of similar price is what I'd like to see. Say http://www1.us.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/xpsdt_400?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs.
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