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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Metryq said 9:09AM on 8-30-2005
I hope "durable" has been added to "stylish." I worked for a company a few years ago where my boss purchased four Vaio laptops. They didn't last very long. We ended up gutting three of them to get the fourth one to work.
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arkowi said 9:20AM on 8-30-2005
While this OS X on an x86 machine is really cool and impressive. I am right in assuming that outside of the built in iLife suite, etc that no other programs runs except those that have been specially made for OSX86 like the version of Firefox etc...right?
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Cyberwhore said 9:21AM on 8-30-2005
My jaw dropped watching that video, mainly when the user quite simply selected which operating system was to be used to start the computer.
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human after all said 9:23AM on 8-30-2005
it wasent exactly lightning fast, particuarly as he dubbs it 'POWER' in fact my nearly 3 year old G3 ibook starts safari faster than that, and im shure it boots quicker than the waio too.
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arkowi said 10:03AM on 8-30-2005
"My jaw dropped watching that video, mainly when the user quite simply selected which operating system was to be used to start the computer."
Yeah, Dual Booting, real cutting edge stuff.
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Blue Balloon said 10:08AM on 8-30-2005
LOL. 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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Jay Contonio said 11:41AM on 8-30-2005
arkowi 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.
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Jeff said 12:32PM on 8-30-2005
I'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.
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Scott Gardner said 1:14PM on 8-30-2005
I 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?
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Edward said 3:37PM on 8-30-2005
I 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.
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Noel said 5:15PM on 8-30-2005
Just 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?
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Noel said 5:17PM on 8-30-2005
Just 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?
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Rodrigo Vazquez said 6:43PM on 8-30-2005
OMG!!! 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
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Cyberwhore said 8:17PM on 8-30-2005
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.
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Latrine said 5:06AM on 8-31-2005
Well 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...
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