Vaio Running OS X
Sony is the beleaguered consumer electronics company that everyone begrudgingly likes. Sure they often hoist propriety crap upon their customers (Memorysticks anyone?) and they can't seem to grok the concept of an MP3 player that, well.. plays MP3's, however there is a shining jewel in the Sony crown.Most folks would agree that their Vaio series of PC's are just about the most stylish PC's you can buy. Someone has installed OS X on a Vaio notebook and declared it the 'Cool Powerbook that Apple didn't build!'
Check out the video, and let your mind wander as you consider the possibilities that are afforded to Apple thanks to the low power consumption of Intel's laptop chips.
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Sony is the beleaguered consumer electronics company that everyone begrudgingly likes. Sure they often hoist propriety crap upon their...
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Sorry arkowi I hadn't seen a computer dual boot XP and OS X like that before. Maybe I am just behind the times or need to get out more often.
August 30 2005 at 8:08 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyOMG!!! it's so fast, i had a titanium but this is the next big sh*t if Apple take the risk and go further. As a developer i'd like to have both systems on my lap
August 30 2005 at 6:41 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyWell I have an AMD 64 3200+ and have installed Mac OSX... it boots fast (faster than my 1,5 year windows install at least) and it works nicely, even with no SSE3... as there is a software emulation tool that allows SSE3 dependent applications to run on a SSE2 rig... I have no network support neither on my Wireless or my Ethernet, as there are no drivers for them... just as my geforce 6600 gt that is only listed as beeing vesa3 compatible (i guess don't remember now)... nop I can't see the ripple effect on the dashboard...the system is tottaly unstable, but I could (finnaly) have a hands on approach to a plattform I will never be abble to affoard (mac mini doesn't hold up to my needs) I want a Apple computer but I will hold off to a hybrid mac osx /Vista in 2006 as I love my windows based gaming...
August 30 2005 at 6:02 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyJust wondering if anyone can speak to the keyboard issue. CMD=CTL, OPT=ALT. But what happens when you're running OS X on a PC and you need to hit the Mac CTL for a contextual menu?
August 30 2005 at 5:16 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyJust wondering if anyone can speak to the keyboard issue. CMD=CTL, OPT=ALT. But what happens when you're running OS X on a PC and you need to hit the Mac CTL for a contextual menu?
August 30 2005 at 5:13 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI should try to install OSx86 on my brother's Sony Vaio. It is the closest spec to a 15" powerbook, except faster. 2.0ghz Pentium-M, 2gb of RAM, 80gb hard drive, 15.4 widescreen, 6.2lbs, very thin and sleek. It's a customized FS-500. But that thing did cost more than my Customized 1.67ghz G4 PB.
August 30 2005 at 3:15 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI observed that Safari displayed a "page cannot load - not connected to internet" error, and the Widgets that relied on the web didn't load, either (e.g., Weather). Is there some problem with connecting to the web on these hacked setups?
August 30 2005 at 1:13 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Replyarkowi no you are wrong. If the processor supports sse2 or sse3 he can run powerpc compiled programs via Rosetta. So it could be a full fledged OS X laptop right now. BBEdit from Barebones is native now, as well as Transmit from Panic. The best programs on the mac in my opinion.
August 30 2005 at 11:40 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI'll never talk about any company's durability after what I've gone through with my iBook. Its closing in on 3 years since I purchased it and the logic board has failed 3 times. And to make things worse, I just got it back from Apple last week (after only being gone for 2 days, props to Apple for that!), but not only did they replace my logic board, they replaced my upgraded 40 GB drive with a standard issue 20 GB drive. Still trying to resolve that one.
August 30 2005 at 10:42 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyLOL. How interesting that Mac's shutdown is much quick than Windows'. Few thing I would like to see thing work with Bluetooth adapter and I don't see anyone use iChat on PC hardware. Hmm....
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