I bet my laptop will be pretty unique on the DJ scene now
Not sure if I 100% trust it yet. I have a Dell Inspiron 1520 laptop, which came with a crappy 1.86GHz Celeron M540 single core CPU and 1GB and Windows Vista. To be honest, it’s always been pretty solid using Traktor and even likes of Ableton.
Due to my utter coolness I now have a Dell Inspiron 1520 shell with a 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo CPU, 4GB RAM and running OS X 10.6.7 Snow Leopard. Done a bit of testing and pushing and it’s an absolute beast of a machine now!
An already super solid laptop (even at low specs) should now be not only unique, but a cracking machine too now it’s running a retail version of OS X Snow Leopard on it!
I know, i tried it, just for fun with no success at all.
A new Mac is beyond my budget, so i buy an used windows laptop without battery by 50€, and i have it running Windows XP and Traktor only.
An amazing unbeatable stability/price ratio !!
The Mac OS X EULA says something like “thou shalt not install OS X on non-Apple-labeled hardware”.
Anyway is a little bit pointless to do it because you put the stability of the Macos at risk
But is totally legal to run Windows XP on a Mac (just to make a good joke i think)
And yes, i think this is not the place to talk about “gray areas” on fair use of software..
They make it hard enough/not optimized for other hardware that alot of ppl dont want/know how to put it on their computers.
Unless you feel like editing a bunch of kexts, its better to just buy the hardware that someone else has proven to work.
I known for the inspirons there was alot of guides, custom built computers like mine…not so much.
What I’m getting at is that apple doesn’t have to worry about this like musicians have to worry about torrent sites, and alot of ppl buy macbooks if they want OS X.
Only reason I was fiddling with it was because s4 was so poorly programmed for windows but thats like a 1/100 chance for software.
Aye- and I believe there are a number of lawsuits in the work claiming it’s not legal for Apple to make that restriction - the argument being that if you buy the s/w you can do what the fuck you want with it.
Seriously though, I bought the Snow Leopard 10.6 retail disc from Cardiff’s Apple store so surely I can install it on whatever I want?!
It’s like when I bought Novation Launchpad, opened it up and if I found a note in there saying it’s illegal for me to use it with anything but Ableton. Not quite the same granted, but you get the idea.
I think Apple may just be worrying a tad at how people have foudn a way to install retail OSX on a non-Apple branded computer. Not sure why they’re freaking out though. I say work with it, like Windows have, and increase compatability. If they did that and gave everyone a genuine Windows competitor across all platforms, OSX would grow times infinity, though at a cost of having to reduce their computers and laptops no doubt (which is a tiny sacrifice if they can leverage Windows out of the OS driver seat and get contracts to put OSX on retail system by Packard Bell, Hewlett Packard etc).
apple say that in there contract. However it is not legally binding in any way in the uk.
there are companies selling hackintoshs. they aint taken them to court. well in the uk.
IOS is more stable due to its hard ware restriction as apple have only got to cater for about 50 to 100 machine specs, where as windows has to cater for tens if not hundreds of thousands.
that being said if you have good kex files you should not have any stability issues. if i was going to get a macbook today i would get a second hand one the new ones have got serious issues atm
[quote]My brother in law has a macbook running windows xp, and i think is the coolest computer joke !!
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I went into a meeting to demo an IT security product armed with a macbook 13’ and VMware running one Server 2008 + 4 additional Windows XP clients all fullscreen and switching between them using Spaces in OSX.
Got the contract and many “WOW” looks
Used to have a Lenovo s10 netbook running OSX leopard and it was damn stable… everything apart from the ethernet worked a charm… i think the new owner is still using it that way.
I’d be interested in trying OSX on my Sony vaio… Any tips re: hardware drivers when switching from Win7 to OSX? I’d only be using it for audio, so stuff like ethernet/internet/bluetooth etc… won’t be needed anyway.
Can you create a dual boot machine - 1 partition for Win 7, and 1 for OSX?
