Psystar Open Computer Notes, Benchmarks and Video

Engadget has had a chance to play around with Psystar's Open Computer and has a few things to say about the controversial machine. "Okay, so we've been playing with the Psystar Open Computer for a few hours now, and we've formed some early impressions and put together a short video of it in action. We haven't really tried to stress the system yet, but based on our other experiences with OSx86 machines, we're expecting things to generally go smoothly. That said, there are some definite rough patches and issues, all mostly having to do with the fact that OS X isn't really built for this hardware."

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Re:If I were apple I'd like this

[goombah99]

* Having a Mac without supporting Apple. okay then please remove the OS if you don't want to support apple. Where do you think the desirable OS comes from?

* Having a Mac on the cheap where you can upgrade your video card. You may possible have some application where you need a fsater video card. remember we're only talking less than afactor of 2 between the 8600 and the integrated graphics in most cases.

You application can't be a pro-app since any pro would not be trying to save a few bucks on the machine if it's idiosyncracies cost them billable hours.

So assuming you are in this really tiny segment where you need an even faster graphics card you also need to consider the following.

most apps won't actually utilize the graphics card's boost since they can't count on it being there. Some pro apps will of course. And games may too. But most won't. But on macs the coders know they can optimize for a limited set of cards so they do.

so you've got to be in a pretty unusual case if you want the cheapest piece of shit computer with a graphics card faster than an 8600.

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Re:Psystar- cheap, but is it a deal?

[goombah99]

Yes but on most graphics ops it was less than a factor of 2. if all you want to do all day is 100% open GL and no cpu or other ops and don' t mind going deaf, buy a pystar.

seriously that's why they do multiple benchmarks. no one just does a benchmark's apps. it's like saying a TI DSP is powned the x86 since it does FFTs faster.