Buying a computer

[Hodge]

good stuff mate, building a PC is no harder than what you do for a living, they are just different parts to what you're used to lol. well get you there bud.

Exactly... It's more or less like car elec. All 12v stuff. And most stuff can only plug in one way and each into its designated kind of slot so hard to go wrong really.

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[rusty_nail]

Exactly... It's more or less like car elec. All 12v stuff. And most stuff can only plug in one way and each into its designated kind of slot so hard to go wrong really.

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pretty much idiot proof huh!

[taslucas]

I re installed windows all my myself

tappin from tassie

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PC good...... Apple overpriced crap

[rusty_nail]

PC good...... Apple overpriced crap

dont start that shit storm again plz haha

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dont start that shit storm again plz haha

only re-iterating what everyone should already know

[Cuppa]

nope nope nope nope nope, just wait for me to get back to you. ill let you know soon

Any more on getting my overpriced piece of crap OS to run on an identically specc’d PC without Windows?

[rusty_nail]

Any more on getting my overpriced piece of crap OS to run on an identically specc’d PC without Windows?

sorry mate, been a busy weekend, i had a quick look at it, almost had mavrick running on a PC last week but no time to do anymore. maybe ill have another go tomorrow.

EDIT: which OS were you hoping for?

[Cuppa]

Currently running Yosemite. (May try El Capitan again soon, now that I have my VPN software updated - but waiting for my NBN connection to hopefully be fixed first).

I don’t actually want to switch machines now, my MBP is fine & hopefully will be for years to come, more that I want to have an idea of whether there is a relatively easy means for someone without in depth knowledge of programming etc, of running Mac OS on a PC without doing so under another OS when the time comes to get a new laptop. At that time I’ll want to run whatever the then current Mac OS is, & for it to be upgradeable to newer OS’s as they are released.

I’m interested that you said it was possible, that was new to me, but I’m guessing it will not be easy or straighforward to achieve except perhaps for those more rather more expert than I am. An alternative might be a consider Linux on a PC - of which I have no experience?? Never even seen it running, but have heard a few positive reports. Don’t know the pro’s & cons.

At the end of the day unless I could swap to a cheaper but equivalent machine with a minimum of fuss, & lose no flexibility with regard to updating the Mac OS & software I am familiar with I’d probably just buy another Mac, but I have heard & recognised what you said about hardware specs/ reliability etc & would be foolish not to try to get my head around the possibilities. I’ll be honest , I think it is probably highly likely that Apple incorporate some way of preventing, or making it very hard otherwise it would surely be a common thing for folk to do?

[rusty_nail]

Currently running Yosemite. (May try El Capitan again soon, now that I have my VPN software updated - but waiting for my NBN connection to hopefully be fixed first).

I don’t actually want to switch machines now, my MBP is fine & hopefully will be for years to come, more that I want to have an idea of whether there is a relatively easy means for someone without in depth knowledge of programming etc, of running Mac OS on a PC without doing so under another OS when the time comes to get a new laptop. At that time I’ll want to run whatever the then current Mac OS is, & for it to be upgradeable to newer OS’s as they are released.

I’m interested that you said it was possible, that was new to me, but I’m guessing it will not be easy or straighforward to achieve except perhaps for those more rather more expert than I am. An alternative might be a consider Linux on a PC - of which I have no experience?? Never even seen it running, but have heard a few positive reports. Don’t know the pro’s & cons.

At the end of the day unless I could swap to a cheaper but equivalent machine with a minimum of fuss, & lose no flexibility with regard to updating the Mac OS & software I am familiar with I’d probably just buy another Mac, but I have heard & recognised what you said about hardware specs/ reliability etc & would be foolish not to try to get my head around the possibilities. I’ll be honest , I think it is probably highly likely that Apple incorporate some way of preventing, or making it very hard otherwise it would surely be a common thing for folk to do?

ok so just to lay it out for you, you just need some prerequisites(which i dont have, hence some blocks i have run into). but for an easy install, you need the matching hardware to what mac provides, its pretty simple, i3 or i7 processor i think, etc etc, just goto any hackintosh website and its layed out in about 5 steps, its not hard, i got to the install stage on my laptop which has NONE of the right hardware, i just didnt have drivers for some of the H/W which made it hard... so yeah keep that in mind, and i can save my time sletting you know how to do it start to finish lol