8.1 Van
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In this week's refresh of the Mac Pro and iMac lineup, Apple chose to only offer ATI graphics options in all configurations of the company's latest desktops.
Despite ATI's absence from Apple's notebooks, the relationship between Apple and AMD, the owner of ATI, could expand to even greater lengths in the future, as AppleInsider reported in April that the two companies are in advanced discussions to bring AMD CPUs to its Mac line. Currently, all Macs are powered by Intel processors.
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AMD and Apple? It could happen with the iMac
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Caddywhompus
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I have an AMD mac already, 64-bit no less. OK, so it's a Dell that runs OSX, but still, the capability is already baked into the OS. It wasn't even that hard to get up and running.
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8.1 Van
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I have Windows 7 on my Mac so I might try Snow Leopard on my latest AMD 890GX 6 core build.
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I did this a while ago (as illustrated by 10.4.1-
Though to be honest- it was running as a virtual machine, not on bare metal.
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AstroRig57
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Caddywhompus wrote:I have an AMD mac already, 64-bit no less. OK, so it's a Dell that runs OSX, but still, the capability is already baked into the OS. It wasn't even that hard to get up and running. 8.1 Van wrote:I have Windows 7 on my Mac so I might try Snow Leopard on my latest AMD 890GX 6 core build.
A "Hackintosh", meaning running Mac OSX on a PC NATIVELY (not in a virtual machine) can be done...though it's NOT EASY and not something for most laypersons to undertake.
You will also, more often than not, have constant issues with hardware devices, peripherals, sound and WiFi among others. Running Software Update and updating and upgrading applications can also be problematic.
Go to Hackintosh.com, follow the many links to various methods to achieve this, read the many stories, and you will find that NO ONE has been able to do this and create a fully stable system with no issues. I repeat NO ONE!! has been able to do this and create a fully stable system with no issues.
If you want to go to all this hassle, only to have an unstable machine, Get a Mac . why not
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Caddywhompus
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AstroRig57 wrote:You will also, more often than not, have constant issues with hardware devices, peripherals, sound and WiFi among others. Running Software Update and updating and upgrading applications can also be problematic. Mine is 100% stable, in fact more stable than the default OS of Vista Ultimate x64. But I concede I cannot do Apple software updates as anyone running an AMD system with OSX must run a hacked kernel, which prevents Apple Updates. Now if you put OSX on an Intel machine with the right hardware, even Apple updates work correctly as no hacked kernel is required.
AstroRig57 wrote:Go to Hackintosh.com, follow the many links to various methods to achieve this, read the many stories, and you will find that NO ONE has been able to do this and create a fully stable system with no issues. I repeat NO ONE!! has been able to do this and create a fully stable system with no issues. I have, with the exception of Apple updates as mentioned above. Those have to be manually installed.
AstroRig57 wrote:If you want to go to all this hassle, only to have an unstable machine, Get a Mac . why not On this we agree 100%. I own a Mac, and soon plan to buy a new one. Installing OSX on the Dell was mostly an experiment that I didn't expect to turn out so well. I only did it originally because I hated Vista so much, and everybody in the house uses the Mac anyway so this machine was "extra" for me to play with. It's been 6 months or so since I installed OSX and it's been running without a reboot for at least 2 of those months. It spends most of it's time transcoding my DVDs to H264 (with handbrake) so it works hard every day.
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Why not run AMDs in a mac. I have been selling AMD machines for years running windows with virtually no problems. A far better bang for the buck than Intel most of the time.
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