Has any one on the boards made a Hackingtosh

[Robert Walker]

I Have,
i was running it for about a year then i built a "standard" windows machine. i only ever ran it in OSX as i was running cs3 for mac but since buying cs5 for pc i have no need for OSX now

it works really well you can build a mac pro for a fraction of the price 😀

since apple went to Intel cpu’s there’s no reason to own a mac now apart from OSX

[Ian Pople]

Hi,

Yes been looking at the videos on line seems easy to do.

I have just ordered all the bits to build a new PC for the office and the MB is on the list of hardware you can use.

nice new i7 2600k 16gb ram ect

Ian

[Robert Walker]

Should fly buddy, how much would an equivalent mac cost? and as long your using a legit version of OSX

i put one of these in my system and it is rapid
http://www.aria.co.uk/SuperSpecials/Oth … ctId=46820

only 8gb af ram though

[Martin Pearson]

Not really sure why you would want to unless you have a lot of Mac software & can’t afford the real thing.

If your not already running a 64bit system have you checked that all the drivers you need will be available, software wise if your going to install windows 7 then you might want to look at the pro or ultimate versions if you have a lot of software which you will need XP to run, you can then run in XP mode.

Cheaper way to do it is to run windows 7 home edition and then install vmware player and set up a virtual machine running XP.

[Ian Pople]

Hi,

I was just interested if anyone has built one.

I have no mac software all windows based. all the software is running on my other PC in windows 7 64bit pro.

I have asked vinyl master and I can have one PC with the registered software on it for cutting and a demo on another PC at home to just design, the demo will not cut.

Corel x5 works fine on win 7 64bit.

ian

[Ian Pople]

Robert RAM is very cheap at the moment.

Ian

[Robert Walker]

i always had it set up as a dual boot, i kinda wish i did still did

i had a customer come in with a mac formatted portable HDD and for the
life of me i could not get it to mount and the files were to big to email and the rest.

now if i could get cs5 and versaworks for linux i would be the happies sign maker this side of never never land

[David Rowland]

nope, but the new mac does dual boot and i have windows within the mac… not exactly what you want but it works well

My next computer might be £16, David Braben is a legend to 8bit gamers
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-storie … -23657377/

stunning
http://www.raspberrypi.org/

[Martin Pearson]

You don’t have to install a demo copy Ian you can install your registered copy of Vinylmaster on your other computer. You can only have one copy activated at a time if you have one licence but you can have the registered copy on more than one machine, you won’t be able to print or cut from the non activated copy but you can save designs you have done.
Only problem I have had with this is you also can’t publish to PDF with a non activated copy & after I had finished a design I wanted to email it to the customer straight away which I couldn’t do.
Don’t know why but DDR 3 ram has been pretty cheap almost from it’s first launch.

I only have windows 7 home edition so run vmware player with XP installed on a virtual machine but it seems to work very well, some say better than windows running in XP mode but that is only what I have read, not having seem xp mode myself I have no real comparison.

[David Rowland]

For those like me who are watching the Raspberry Pi computer going has now gone into manufacturer, however they had to go the far east as it is impossible to make anything here now.

Really sad to see this happening but a very good explanation on the site.

I will try and remember to buy one still, cheap experimental computer.

http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/509#comments

[Robert Lambie]

saw his already mate, Andrew has shown me it. impressive stuff…

as for where it manufactured? no disrespect meant at all… but hell i cant get a "quality" spoken support call from sky, BT, you name it…
what is happening is we are all being offered 24/7 support, which is great… you would think! but "quality of support" far out weighs general support. long term.

[David Rowland]

I add HP Support to that (latex)…
anyway… will see on Monday how they will perform after my 3rd support phone call and engineer to show up on site.

Good on Andrew.. i think its cool… just a shame they cant get them made here