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Successful PearPC/Mac OS X Install Documented
rocketjam writes "OS News has an article by a user who successfully installed Mac OS X using the 0.1 version of PearPC, the PPC emulator for x86 machines. He said it took 5 hours to run the first install CD but he did get it up and running on an AMD Athlon XP 1600+ with 512MB of RAM. The article has several screenshots of the Mac OS X install and new user set up running on his machine." See our previous story.
If the performance lives up to the hype on PC hardware, then this has to be the end of Mac hardware... which are $$$$$.
Of course there's no such thing as perfect emulators though vmware comes pretty damn close.
Never mind your deprecated PPC. My Clan ER PPC 0wns you filthy steiners.
From the article:
"...on their website they warn you: the emulated processor is about 40 times slower than the host processor."
5 hours, just for the first CD, and using 99% CPU and all available RAM. You have to admire the patience of Thom Holwerda...
Of course, once he's installed the OS, the Dock drops into an infinite loop that crashes the machine, but oh well -- actually navigating to any applications -- who needs that kind of junk?
There's definitely room for improvement, but it shows promise!
'Thats they exact same thing a banana wrench monkey.'
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>"how fast/expensive a box do I need to get a normal experience"
Maybe when Intel or other release a CPU faster than the G5, so that it can compensate from the emulation.
Seriously, one of the major problems is the small number of registers in the x86 family. It was always easier to emulate x86 in RISC CPUs than the reverse.
Unfortunately, MS bought the company that made emulation soft for Macs (VirtualPC) and now they are taking more than 1 year to release a G5-supported version. OK, there is always bosch, but it's probably as slow as the PearPC.
That is the stupidest head in the sand responce i have ever read on slashdot. Congratulations!
No one else in the entire world sells a zero button mouse. no one. no one sells a one button mouse. jsut like the hockey puck mouse, they are more concerned with a little bit more style, than functionality. Thats what they want to be, not a technology company that provides value to its customers, but a cool company that also sells technology. the mouse is such a small detail that speaks volumes about the company.
Well.. maybe. Or Maybe not. But Definitely not sort of.
Hey dipshit, Apple is about usability and efficiency. Having to use two hands to do what can easily be done with one is antithetical to Apple's modus. Not to mention the scroll wheel and all the time it saves. Not to mention the THIRD button. CTRL-click is a ridiculous model to use. Once you have used a programmable three button, scrolling mouse, particularly with Expose, you can't go back to a one button mouse. As for the caps, that denoted SHOUTING, because I was yelling at Apple, who keeps shooting themselves in the foot, forcing Mac users to buy products from Apple's #1 competitor Microsoft, by their pigheaded adherence to the one button handicap. I WANT to buy an Apple mouse because Apple makes excellent products. No one who has to right click often, like a programmer and graphic designer like myself, or people in audio/video/effects (you know, Apple's key professional markets) uses Apple mice. That could easily change, and millions of dollars could be made, with one reasonable decision. Who's going to buy the Apple bluetooth mouse? Almost no one. They keyboard, sure... not the useless mouse. I went Logitech instead.
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Dream machines? Check out some of the discussions around the net about build quality - particularly the massive logic board failure issue that nearly had Apple in a lawsuit.
Then there's been the hinge problems, overheating, oversensitive touchpads, paint chipping, etc. Not many people know that Apple's laptops are made by a Taiwanese ODM called AlphaTop, and the QC and build quality is no better than your average x86 machine as a result (CPU aside, they use pretty much the same components).
Apple hardware has gone downhill severely, and the recent problems have been shocking. Yeah, if you want to run the lovely OS X there are no other sane options, but at least wait and see first.