Feek's adventures with OS X - Page 4

petemc · 04-04-2008, 17:11

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Originally Posted by Feek

Yes Pete.

Oooh. I found that too but I did alt+enter as you do on a Windows game and it went to windowed. Then I set it to a smaller res and was away. However when asked to login I thought "NOoooo. Don't resub. I'll have no life!" so I uninstalled

Feek · 04-04-2008, 17:18

eek!

If I do windows-enter it does seem to resize to a window and it's working. Although it still thinks it's running fullscreen through the menu it is actually in a window.

I shall experiment further

Thanks Pete, and Daz for those links.

Feek · 04-04-2008, 17:45

Like this, in fact...

Feek · 08-04-2008, 12:33

Driving to work today, myself and the boss talked further about this. I'm still using it, I still like it a lot. I've only rebooted into Windows when I needed to do anything particularly intensive in Eve (even using the native client isn't great) or grab documents from my "my documents" or access old emails or my existing iTunes library.

I mentioned that it'd be great to have £1,700 to spend on a Mac Pro and he laughed saying it's silly to spend that sort of money when one can do it with a hackintosh just as well but a lot cheaper. Remember he's got a pair of macs but is all in favour of OS X being run the way I'm doing it.

So I've done some quick pricing up. The current Mac Pros are dual quad-core Xeons. These bugs are nearly five hundred quid apiece. That's nearly a grand just for the processors. Add a good motherboard and that's almost two hundred pounds, with decent HSFs for the two chips then the CPU/mobo combination works out as £1,200.

Throw in memory, fancy case, big meaty PSU, video card etc etc and all in all the £1,700 doesn't sound quite so bad. OK, it's not a cheap system but it's eight xeon cores which will be a lot faster than my current pair of cores!

What's happened to me?

petemc · 08-04-2008, 12:37

You've looked at it sensibly, tried the OS and came to a valid conclusion. Instead of going "OMG its all expensive pretty trendwhore nonsense!!!"

There's probably a way to migrate your iTunes library too.

Mark · 08-04-2008, 21:32

Please don't tempt me. Please.

(though to be honest I'd likely schlep some other OS on it - my Mac Mini does fine for the Mac 'fix').

Dr. Z · 08-04-2008, 23:07

Quote:

Originally Posted by petemc

You've looked at it sensibly, tried the OS and came to a valid conclusion. Instead of going "OMG its all expensive pretty trendwhore nonsense!!!"

There's probably a way to migrate your iTunes library too.

Which is exactly what I did.

petemc · 08-04-2008, 23:20

I didn't mean anyone here

Its the general stereotype. "OMG Expensive fashion accessory!"

Feek · 17-04-2008, 22:21

Quote:

Originally Posted by petemc

There's probably a way to migrate your iTunes library too.

There is, I've just done it - Copy the files over and then manually tweak an .xml file so that the paths are correct and import the library. It worked a treat, but I did have to sync everything back to the iPod afterwards which was a bit slow.

Feek · 30-05-2008, 17:11

10.5.3 is mine

(and I appear to have a new avatar!)

04-04-2008, 17:18	#32
Feek ex SAS Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: JO01ou Posts: 10,062	eek! If I do windows-enter it does seem to resize to a window and it's working. Although it still thinks it's running fullscreen through the menu it is actually in a window. I shall experiment further Thanks Pete, and Daz for those links. __________________

04-04-2008, 17:45	#33
Feek ex SAS Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: JO01ou Posts: 10,062	Like this, in fact... __________________

08-04-2008, 12:33	#34
Feek ex SAS Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: JO01ou Posts: 10,062	Driving to work today, myself and the boss talked further about this. I'm still using it, I still like it a lot. I've only rebooted into Windows when I needed to do anything particularly intensive in Eve (even using the native client isn't great) or grab documents from my "my documents" or access old emails or my existing iTunes library. I mentioned that it'd be great to have £1,700 to spend on a Mac Pro and he laughed saying it's silly to spend that sort of money when one can do it with a hackintosh just as well but a lot cheaper. Remember he's got a pair of macs but is all in favour of OS X being run the way I'm doing it. So I've done some quick pricing up. The current Mac Pros are dual quad-core Xeons. These bugs are nearly five hundred quid apiece. That's nearly a grand just for the processors. Add a good motherboard and that's almost two hundred pounds, with decent HSFs for the two chips then the CPU/mobo combination works out as £1,200. Throw in memory, fancy case, big meaty PSU, video card etc etc and all in all the £1,700 doesn't sound quite so bad. OK, it's not a cheap system but it's eight xeon cores which will be a lot faster than my current pair of cores! What's happened to me? __________________

08-04-2008, 12:37	#35
petemc Moonshine Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Nr Liverpewl Posts: 4,371	You've looked at it sensibly, tried the OS and came to a valid conclusion. Instead of going "OMG its all expensive pretty trendwhore nonsense!!!" There's probably a way to migrate your iTunes library too. __________________ Thats no hamster, its a space station!

08-04-2008, 23:20	#38
petemc Moonshine Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Nr Liverpewl Posts: 4,371	I didn't mean anyone here Its the general stereotype. "OMG Expensive fashion accessory!" __________________ Thats no hamster, its a space station!

08-04-2008, 21:32	#36
Mark Screaming Orgasm Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Newbury Posts: 15,194	Please don't tempt me. Please. (though to be honest I'd likely schlep some other OS on it - my Mac Mini does fine for the Mac 'fix').

30-05-2008, 17:11	#40
Feek ex SAS Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: JO01ou Posts: 10,062	10.5.3 is mine (and I appear to have a new avatar!) __________________ Last edited by Feek; 24-04-2009 at 22:37.