Re: Has anybody made installing OSX on generic Intel any easier in recent months?

On Sun, 5 Oct 2008 23:42:51 -0700, troll patrol wrote
(in article <6d438$48e9b3b6$489@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>):

In article <0001HW.C50E8C9000151554F01846D8@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Sonnova <sonnova@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


Haven't checked in a coon's age, but the last time I looked into
installing OSX on Intel hardware, it was incredibly complex, much
more
so than my meager computer talents can possibly manage. But I don't
like Windows, and I want to run OSX, but I also don't want to spend
twice as much for an Apple MacBook as I would spend for a comparable
Win notebook


Who's kidding who? Above stated no knowledge of how to install OS X on
Intel or PC hardware.

Thank you. You have answered my question to my satisfaction. I guess I
have to live with Windows even though i MUCH prefer Mac. See, the
hardware is mostly irrelevant to me, but the OS is important mainly
because I use my laptop mostly as a DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) and
the best DAW programs are primarily Mac oriented (Apple's Logic Express
is my favorite audio capture program- one that I know well. An
important
consideration). The ones that run under multiple OSes, such as
Audacity,
lack features under Windows that they don't lack under Macs. I mean,
Macs practically own pro-audio, from

what I can see.
Here stated laptop is used as DAW - what kind of laptop and what program
- is this the PC laptop with Audacity or a Mac laptop with Logic
Express?


Then you should have answered your own question. If your main work is as
you say and you know as much as about the applications as you do, then I
don't even know why you asked. You would either (a) spend the money, (b)
buy a used

Mac, or (3) spend a day tweaking a non-Apple machine to get OS X on it.

Valid questions all - this OP reads like a troll.


All I asked is if installing OSX on generic Intel was any easier than it
was the last time I looked (OSX 3.X?). And, I already have a "used Mac"
laptop. I want something that's a bit faster and gives me less latency
when recording to HDD (while being small, and light). That led me to
contemplate a machine like the Acer Aspire - 9" screen, a little over
two
pounds, a processor TWICE as fast as my G3, Etc.

This shows little hardware knowledge - if you have a G3 you'll get a
speed increase with an Acer netbook but the small screen and the small
keyboard is a hassle if you do much typing. And using a netbook for
audio is questionable - you really need a more powerful processor unless
your audio is very simple.


Sorry, there is a lot of false trolling.

Yeah, and this reads like some of it.


I'll try to explain once more. I want light and small and basically
throw-away. If I can buy something like an Acer Aspire, which is very small
and very light and very cheap, I won't care so much if it gets "beat-up" in
the field (I do on-location recording) or even lifted from backstage by the
more light-fingered elements. IOW, I'll have a cheap computer to capture
audio with that still runs OSX (and thus Logic Express) and I won't have to
worry about it. That is what had me posing the question about installing
OSX
on it. I know that it used be a daunting task, and I was merely wondering
if
anything had changed on that front.

If you're thinking about installing OS X on an Acer netbook without a
hard drive that runs with flash cards as hard drive and memory, forget
it.


I'm still thinking about going the Aspire (or similar) route and going back
to using Audacity (I'm only capturing audio, after all) on Windows. I don't
need anything really complicated. In fact I only used Logic Express because
I
like the interface and because there is commonality of the interface
between
LE and the more comprehensive Logic Studio which I run on my Intel tower
Mac
in my editing room.

If you have Logic Studio on an Intel tower Mac it has to be a MacPro -
the only one available. If you can afford a MacPro why not get a Mac
Mini for your backstage audio work and run Logic Express on it? You can
plug a small, cheap CRT and an inexpensive keyboard into it - unless you
just want a small, cheap all-in-one box for convenience - then go with
your Acer and Audacity. Don't kid yourself about running OS X on that
baby Acer - unless Apple releases a PC friendly version of OS X. It
could happen.
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You people only "read" from a post what you want to see, it seems, rather
than what's actually there. What part of a cheap, SMALL and essentially
throw-away computer do you not understand? Because the Mac Mini not only not
cheap, but by the time you throw-in a keyboard, mouse, and monitor, from a
cost standpoint I might as well have bought a MacBook, and from a
carry-around standpoint, I'd have a nightmare of extra equipment, cables and
set-up -often in places where space is at a premium. IOW, your suggestions
are no help at all.

I got the answer to my question, and as far as I'm concerned, after this
session, this thread is closed.

.

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