Shiny new Macs released yesterday

[Cliphead]

Wondering what all the fuss about Mac's is about I built one from a spare PC today. Other than the black case it's to all intents and purposes a Mac.

It's even got a console and I can play with command line stuff as usual. So what else can I do with it?

[minestrone]

Wondering what all the fuss about Mac's is about I built one from a spare PC today. Other than the black case it's to all intents and purposes a Mac.

It's even got a console and I can play with command line stuff as usual. So what else can I do with it?

Well HAB says that they are useful if you are walking up Kelvin Way on a dark night.

[d000hg]

Wondering what all the fuss about Mac's is about I built one from a spare PC today. Other than the black case it's to all intents and purposes a Mac.

Cool. You have your very own Hackintosh.

[quote[It's even got a console and I can play with command line stuff as usual. So what else can I do with it?[/QUOTE]Pretty much the same as Windows. If you use iTunes it should seem much better.

[Cliphead]

Cool. You have your very own Hackintosh.

It is pretty cool indeed. Part of my job is testing music / audio software and it occured to me that I have all the Mac versions as well as Windows. Installed just about all of it and yes it does the same as Windows.

So now I have XP, Win7, Mac & Linux machines all doing some kind of job, all connected to the NAS and working flawlessly

[bogeyman]

It is pretty cool indeed. Part of my job is testing music / audio software and it occured to me that I have all the Mac versions as well as Windows. Installed just about all of it and yes it does the same as Windows.

So now I have XP, Win7, Mac & Linux machines all doing some kind of job, all connected to the NAS and working flawlessly

But it's not a Mac. It's a bunch of thrown-together circuit-boards and components in a tin box with sharp edges.

It might run OS X, after a fashion, but a Mac - it is not.

[Cliphead]

But it's not a Mac. It's a bunch of thrown-together circuit-boards and components in a tin box with sharp edges.

It might run OS X, after a fashion, but a Mac - it is not.

So it's useless unless it's a design statement

[d000hg]

But it's not a Mac. It's a bunch of thrown-together circuit-boards and components in a tin box with sharp edges.

It might run OS X, after a fashion, but a Mac - it is not.

There's an online community who dedicate themselves to building PCs using off-the-shelf components which will properly run MacOS, it's entirely possible.

[scooterscot]

Bought one of those magic mouse's today.

Taking it back tomorrow. The profile is too low, I have this uncomfortable void under the palm of my hand.

Also expose function is lost and I'm lost without it.... huge interruption in my day to day user experience.

[Moscow Mule]

Bought one of those magic mouse's today.

Taking it back tomorrow. The profile is too low, I have this uncomfortable void under the palm of my hand.

Also expose function is lost and I'm lost without it.... huge interruption in my day to day user experience.

I like mine - the low profile was funny at first but I'm used to it now. Never use the mouse for expose, as I use hot corners. I do use the multitouch all the time though

[Sysman]

Also expose function is lost and I'm lost without it.... huge interruption in my day to day user experience.

Use Console.app from an admin account to look for signs of stuff crashing.

If you prefer the command line interface, look in /var/log/system.log