Re: MacBook buying advice?

["Travis Hartnett" <travishartnett@gmail.com>]

Well, part of the reason for the "easy out-of-the-box integration" is that the number of possible configurations is controlled by Apple, and thus very small.  You can't buy a Mac without the OS, and they're really all part of the same "product".  Any OS that runs on "commodity hardware" isn't going to be as smooth as the Mac OS experience (and even that isn't, of course, perfect).  Part of what you perceive as the "hardware" cost is the cost of extensively testing that hardware/software combination so that the user experience is as smooth as it is.  

The Mac market isn't made up of people who want deal with EFI bios workarounds and such.  But if that's working for you, great.

TH

On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 2:09 AM, van Sinn <vansinn@post.cybercity.dk> wrote:

George Ludwig wrote:

For those that love MacOS (as I do) but would prefer to run on commodity hardware, check out http://www.hackintosh.org

But it's not for the faint of heart.

Agreed.  There's also insanelymac.whatever  -same story.

To briefly comment: While I really like Apple and OSX, very much for it's ease of out-of-the-box integration, I find their hardware prices overrated, so I consider shopping ordinary PC hardware and install a shopped OSX (not the 'free open' hacked version) using boot123, which is an EFI bios workaround.