Considering buying an m11X

[Recursion]

I never thought I'd come across a tax that I actually like!

I remember looking at some Alienware PC's, they looked wicked and had some of the best specs I'd seen.

The best specs at the worst price, yes.

[N!ck]

I never thought I'd come across a tax that I actually like!

I remember looking at some Alienware PC's, they looked wicked and had some of the best specs I'd seen.

You could custom build better for about a third of the price .

[Apple]

You could custom build better for about a third of the price .

So would it be possible for me to sell my mac and custom build a much better computer that runs OS X? I have seen threads were complete novices have built their own computer so maybe I could do it myself.

[N!ck]

So would it be possible for me to sell my mac and custom build a much better computer that runs OS X? I have seen threads were complete novices have built their own computer so maybe I could do it myself.

I wouldn't advise it. It can be done, but I would only run OS X on Mac hardware.

[Recursion]

Selling your Mac would be the best thing you've ever done (unless it's your secondary computer), ask xxMattGxx, he did

[Oleh]

To be honest i there is 3 reasons i want one - They look better than every laptop ive seen, Faster than every laptop ive seen for the size, practical size for what i need it for

[Apple]

I wouldn't advise it. It can be done, but I would only run OS X on Mac hardware.

That is the thing I do not understand with Mac's. You can run both windows and OS X on a Mac system but you can't on a Windows system such as dell. Is it hard to explain why this is? If so I think I'll pass.

Selling your Mac would be the best thing you've ever done (unless it's your secondary computer), ask xxMattGxx, he did

That would seem rather odd as buying a Mac was the best thing I've ever done yet.

[N!ck]

That is the thing I do not understand with Mac's. You can run both windows and OS X on a Mac system but you can't on a Windows system such as dell. Is it hard to explain why this is? If so I think I'll pass.


That would seem rather odd as buying a Mac was the best thing I've ever done yet.

Windows is sold on lots of different hardware, so designed to run on pretty much anything.

OS X is only sold on Apple hardware, and they purposefully make it so that it's difficult to run it on anything else to stop people doing what you suggested.

[Recursion]

That is the thing I do not understand with Mac's. You can run both windows and OS X on a Mac system but you can't on a Windows system such as dell. Is it hard to explain why this is? If so I think I'll pass.


That would seem rather odd as buying a Mac was the best thing I've ever done yet.

Surely the fact that Microsoft allows you to install Windows on a Mac, but Apple doesn't let you install OS X on a PC, just shows how much better MS are?

[Apple]

Surely the fact that Microsoft allows you to install Windows on a Mac, but Apple doesn't let you install OS X on a PC, just shows how much better MS are?

You can look at that point in many different ways, how about Mac is much more proud of their operating system and they only think their own products are good enough for it, however MS are just money hungry and want to sell to a wider audience.