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I don't think it will be useful for any functional purpose and why waste our time on MAC OS when we have more useful applications on IBM PC and fairly good WIN XP OS, yes for the emulation sake

we can design our desktop like MAC and I think we are very good at that, in any case emulator are very sluggish and can't be used for any useful purpose. https://www.neowin.net/forum/style_images/N...B-674/icon7.gif

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noone is putting a gun to your head forsing you to use it, or to even view this thread

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I give it a week of hype before everyone realizes it is useless. Except for you Jackalo, I'm sure it will run Sherlock just fine and while you are at it you might want to check out a program called Watson. Its an OS X Sharware version of Sherlock except much better.

In any case it may do some good for Apple is people are able to try out OS X before buying a Mac. I was always a firm believer that Apple should do something like this but just as a live demo disc so Windows/PC users could try out OS X before they went and got a Mac.

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I give it a week of hype before everyone realizes it is useless. Except for you Jackalo, I'm sure it will run Sherlock just fine and while you are at it you might want to check out a program called Watson. Its an OS X Sharware version of Sherlock except much better.

In any case it may do some good for Apple is people are able to try out OS X before buying a Mac. I was always a firm believer that Apple should do something like this but just as a live demo disc so Windows/PC users could try out OS X before they went and got a Mac.

Or ya kno, they could try a mac at a store?

Anyways how man CD's is panther and how many do i need for this? Whats teh final image size :happy: I just have to wait for my cd's to arrive. Can't Wait! :woot: Gonna be at least a week :(

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I don't think it will be useful for any functional purpose and why waste our time on MAC OS when we have more useful applications on IBM PC and fairly good WIN XP OS, yes for the emulation sake

we can design our desktop like MAC and I think we are very good at that, in any case emulator are very sluggish and can't be used for any useful purpose. https://www.neowin.net/forum/style_images/N...B-674/icon7.gif

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Have you ever actually USED a Mac? I mean, for Christ's sake you're using terms like "IBM PC" which leads me to believe you're still in that mid-late 80's mindset. Ever since I bought my G5 I've been using my PC MUCH less than I used to.

What apps do you use?

The only REAL advantage Windows has is in gaming. That's it.

Hell, even Kismet works on the Mac...with an Orinoco card.

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he only REAL advantage Windows has is in gaming. That's it.

I have to agree with that.

What I was talking about using OS X on a x86 pc for the first time was....It's never been done before. And yes it has been emulated on the atari....but never truly working on a wintel machine.

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Nope, im getting my powerbook soon and my neighbour wants panther anyways on her G3 iMac, so shes gonna buy it off me.

If you are buying a PowerBook why are you buying Panther seperatly? It comes with it. Plus Tiger should be out this fall/winter.

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Have you ever actually USED a Mac? I mean, for Christ's sake you're using terms like "IBM PC" which leads me to believe you're still in that mid-late 80's mindset. Ever since I bought my G5 I've been using my PC MUCH less than I used to.

What apps do you use?

The only REAL advantage Windows has is in gaming. That's it.

Hell, even Kismet works on the Mac...with an Orinoco card.

Mike

I think the point is more, if you had a Windows PC, what program does Apple offer that you would have to emulate it to use?

I could use them interchangably, but I don't see the point for using both of them.

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Or ya kno, they could try a mac at a store?

Anyways how man CD's is panther and how many do i need for this? Whats teh final image size :happy: I just have to wait for my cd's to arrive. Can't Wait! :woot: Gonna be at least a week :(

Why didnt you buy it from a store like futureshop?

:pinch:

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Or you could use KisMAC which works with both AirPort and AirPort Extreme cards. It also supports passive scanning and some encription hacking tools.

Well, KisMAC is the app I was referring to, but I didn't think people would actually think it was a real port since it had the MAC on the end of it.

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I think the point is more, if you had a Windows PC, what program does Apple offer that you would have to emulate it to use?

I could use them interchangably, but I don't see the point for using both of them.

The iApps kick ass, and there are NO apps on the Wintel side that even come close to them. Emulating them would be a bitch, though, and the hardware integration that works on the Mac would surely break with this emulator. I'd like to see this emulator suck in Audio and Video in real time, even after it matures. :laugh:

I use Final Cut Pro and DVD Studio Pro for my stuff. Photoshop is sweet on the Mac. There are a lot of little apps that the Mac has that I use all the time.

I used to turn on my Mac and my PC every day when I came home from work. Now I boot my PC only when I want to play UT2K4. :laugh:

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The iApps kick ass, and there are NO apps on the Wintel side that even come close to them. Emulating them would be a bitch, though, and the hardware integration that works on the Mac would surely break with this emulator. I'd like to see this emulator suck in Audio and Video in real time, even after it matures. :laugh:

I use Final Cut Pro and DVD Studio Pro for my stuff. Photoshop is sweet on the Mac. There are a lot of little apps that the Mac has that I use all the time.

I used to turn on my Mac and my PC every day when I came home from work. Now I boot my PC only when I want to play UT2K4. :laugh:

Mike

I agree. There are a lot of tiny apps that Mac has that I would use daily, but can't because I'm on a Wintel machine. Just, I've had my PC for a long time and wouldn't want to spend a whack of money to purchase a nice shiney new Mac. :sleep:

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I agree. There are a lot of tiny apps that Mac has that I would use daily, but can't because I'm on a Wintel machine. Just, I've had my PC for a long time and wouldn't want to spend a whack of money to purchase a nice shiney new Mac. :sleep:

Emulation is of course not the answer for running iApps or basically anything else on a daily basis (except Sherlock).

People make it seem like switching to a Mac is something that is near impossible. It really is easier than most people think whithin a week of buying my Mac last year I sold my PC. The only advantage a PC has is games and I have a console for that.

Both platforms have their advantages for some people and if one has more apps you are going to use then its time to move. Everyone can complain about the cost of a Mac but if you would save some money its not a big deal. The eMac is a great machine for someone who wants to add another computer to their house.

Just my opinions.

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i don't think apple is too worried about this. they could go a lot of ways on this. they could go the legal route and try to shut it down, but i don't think apple wants to go this way, and if i was steve jobs, i wouldn't. sure, it's nice you have a 3ghz pc, but you're never really going to have the design. you could be like that one guy with the g5 case and toss a bunch of pc parts in, but then you don't have the quiet fan system. i think the way apple should proceed on this one is looking at it in a "we could expand our market out there". this will never match apple's pro computers, even at a final release. they could increase the authorization required (like windows xp) to make sure people are paying for osx and easily make tons of money. $130 a year, a major release every year... sure, probably not as nice as the chunk of change apple gets per ipod or per g5, but still a nice little lump of money.

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Photoshop is sweet on the Mac.

Not trying to flame, but why do you think that? I use iMac G4 800mhz with 768MB RAM machines at school, for work with Photoshop and Illistrator and christ, it sucks. Both of those programs run like total ass on those machines, and I'd imagine it would take atleast double the power of those machines to run it decently.

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Not trying to flame, but why do you think that? I use iMac G4 800mhz with 768MB RAM machines at school, for work with Photoshop and Illistrator and christ, it sucks. Both of those programs run like total ass on those machines, and I'd imagine it would take atleast double the power of those machines to run it decently.

I'm running it on a dual 2.0GHz G5 so my experience is much different than yours.

It's fast, it's smooth, and the response time for simple things are practically instantaneous.

Mike

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I'm running it on a dual 2.0GHz G5 so my experience is much different than yours.

It's fast, it's smooth, and the response time for simple things are practically instantaneous.

Mike

apple has ****ed adobe off, now they are opimising photoshop and the rest of their adobe products for the x86 architecture.

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Not trying to flame, but why do you think that? I use iMac G4 800mhz with 768MB RAM machines at school, for work with Photoshop and Illistrator and christ, it sucks. Both of those programs run like total ass on those machines, and I'd imagine it would take atleast double the power of those machines to run it decently.

see, the reason why school computer is slow is cuz there are a lot of poeple using that machine. everyone handles the computer differently. thats why schools replace their computer every so often. my school are now using emac just last year we were using the same one your using.

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apple has ****ed adobe off, now they are opimising photoshop and the rest of their adobe products for the x86 architecture.

I actually Disagree with you here.... I work with pretty much every adobe product that is out there at work... I can tell you I have a G4 1ghz with only 512mb of ram on 10.3.3 and I can assure you that My mac beats the hell out of my PC with apps like Photoshop CS and Illustrator CS... Some apps just are not built around mac because there is no need for it. For exmaple you will never see a Photoshop Albums for the Mac... because you Iphoto... You will never see Encore DVD for the Mac because you have Idvd... Some apps that adobe has decide to drop such as framemaker and Premier are for good reason, Mac has there own apps like final Cut pro, Motion and so forth that are built right from apple and adobe see no reason to compete with that because why by something from adobe when apple can just package it with there products for a lower cost.

I will agree that the new age adobe products run a little slower then past versions, but they do so much more and I can assure you that Adobe has not forgotten the mac, I can say that almost 70% of the people I deal with everyday are mac users, and they do get slowing but it aint any better for x86.... I mean try running photoshop 7, CS and Photoshop Elements 2.0 on your mac at the same time and you will see that it can be done... then open up the same apps on the PC with similar of not better specs then your mac and you will see the differnce in preformace.

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