OK, broke 28minutes... ;) AND I lowered my system down to 2.75GHZ I tightened the memory timings... DDR500(250mhz 2.5-3-3-7 @2.85V :)
Posted on 01/25/2007 12:26:48 AM PST by Swordmaker
I was just showing him some of your previous comments to me, and how they make your current ones peculiar.
IF you want to try MS "Windows Server 2003 R2" free for 6 months go to microsoft.com and signup and download it. ;) "It requires 2 cd's to be burned iso format" if you don't have CD burning software majorgeeks.com has a couple of freeware CD burning programs or you could download a Demo version of Nero" ;) enjoy.
Microsoft, isn't as greedy and as bad as everyone says.
OK, broke 28minutes... ;) AND I lowered my system down to 2.75GHZ I tightened the memory timings... DDR500(250mhz 2.5-3-3-7 @2.85V :)
That OS X relies heavily on open source has nothing to do with this. It only involves your strange, contradictory views on open source.
I take it you still haven't figured out #39.
Impressive, but just show the numbers. It's a strain to keep looking at screenshots of a wanna-be OS X knockoff. BTW, you hear AMD plans to re-take the speed crown with the Barcelona quad-core?
It's quite okay to prefer your Mac, but it's not okay to just make crap up. I've installed Vista on everything from an old 1.8GHz P4 to a new Core2Duo. I've yet to not find a driver for any of my printers, scanners or cameras or system devices.
And besides, can I grab some old hardware out of my closet and install OSX on it? Seems like you've set the bar a lot higher for Vista.
Of course it does, since you specifically brought it up before, but now are attempting to argue it was in fact best for Apple to keep their O/S proprietary.
It only involves your strange, contradictory views on open source.
You're the one with the contradictory views, arguing for years on behalf of open source even in the specific case of Apple, now to basically admit Apple was smart to keep their best intellectual property private. It's also extremely contradictory for you to argue in support of free open source software for Chinese government fronts, such as those that rename "Red Hat" to "Red Flag", but feel that it is unfair for US corporations such as Microsoft to use someone else's software or ideas.
You're going to have to decide once and for all if you're in favor of US companies and intellectual property protections, or if you're instead still in favor of free US intellectual property transfers to the entire world, including when it's illegally obtained by foreign hackers. Your first post ever to FR was arguing against US copyright law, you've been defending foreign hackers ever since including those that cracked Apple's OSX to run on cheap PC's, called DRM encryption quote "pointless", so to now appear somehow thankful that Apple's OSX wasn't duplicated by someone else is hilarious. You've been pointing out much of OSX is free software for years, even endlessly defending the pirates that hacked the rest of it here recently, but now you're supposedly relieved it wasn't legally copied by someone else here in the US? LMAO!
The maker of speedfan monitoring utility is going through the process of getting signed drivers for 64bit Vista (speedfan.sys)...
Not to shabby, it's a work in progress need more ram. ;) Whats nice about this upgrade process is my other computers here in the house are getting overhauled with the parts that are coming out of my main box. :D Now my A64 3500+/Epox mobo is the "old" computer hehe...
Cool! So, I can dig out my old Compaq Evo and install OSX on it? Bring it on!
Or...are you just limited from the hardware that you can buy from your OS vendor?
So, in other words I don't have the freedom to assemble my own components and run a supported Apple OS on it? Gosh, I'm surprised.
I didn't know I was insulting your religion. For your reading pleasure, here are the experiences of other Vista reviewers (topic: lack of driver support).
From: 10 Reasons NOT to get Vista
From: Uninspiring Vista by Erika Jonietz
Oh...well gosh. You've found stuff to read. That was my mistake right there. I've actually tried it. If I ever get lobotomized, I plan on quitting my technology job to become a technology journalist so that I too can give bad advice stuff I don't understand. I'll have a good audience too, mainly from Mac users who for some reason are in constant need of affirmation.
I mean, why else would Mac users provide "expert" analysis of products they don't use? Why not just extoll the virtues of your favorite products instead of trying to destroy the competition? Doesn't competition ensure better products for all of us? Instead, we get the technology equivalent of a Democrat political campaign.
Every day, there is some anti-Vista or anti-Microsoft rant posted by some Mac-head. You people are like a cult; despite my efforts to believe otherwise the conclusion is inescapable.
I have a Mac. A PowerBook G4 running Tiger. It's a neat piece of hardware, but I find the OS not to my liking. That doesn't make it bad - just not for me. I respect the fact that people have preferences different from me, which is quite a different attitude from the Free Republic Mac-Pac.
bookmark to show IT person (wife)
OS X will run on any Mac made since the release of the first 233MHz iMac back in May of 1998... slowly, but it will run.
It ran quite nicely on my 1999 PowerBook Lombard (333MHz, 384M ram, 10G HD... until someone stole it last month.
I wouldn't install OS X.4 Tiger on either without putting in a larger hard drive but OS X.2.8 (Jaguar) runs fine on the 233 iMac and the laptop ran fine on 10.3.9 (Panther).
OS X.2.8 also runs quite nicely on a Beige 233MHz G3 tower introduced in November of 1997 so long as the Ram is above 128 Megabytes.
Is that sufficiently old?
Actually, since Apple has said they were concurrently developing the X86 and PowerPC versions of OS X from day one, their probably IS a version that could be installed. ;^)>
However, we cannot know the contents of your closet. Can you install Windows Vista on that Compaq Evo with a Pentium 4? Yes.
Legally? Probably not.
Well good for you, Doohickey. But I am surprised at the depth of your testing facilities... you have examples of every piece of hardware that Vista will have to support and have tested them and found they work quite well. GREAT! Wonderful
It is amazing, however, that you find ways to make hardware work that the manufacturers of that hardware say they are "scrambling" to get drivers out for. Yet you, doohickey, know better than the majority of PC punditry because you have tried Vista on your vast collection of hardware in your closet. And you haven't been "lobotomized".
Every day, there is some anti-Vista or anti-Microsoft rant posted by some Mac-head. You people are like a cult; despite my efforts to believe otherwise the conclusion is inescapable.
Now you descend to the refuge of the person who cannot refute the facts as presented: ad hominem attack.
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