[X4U] OS X On Generic PC Hardware

Zane H. Healy healyzh at aracnet.com
Thu Nov 15 20:58:39 PST 2007


At 9:54 PM -0600 11/15/07, Craig A. Finseth wrote:
>	...
>    It seems that with an $800 investment you can build a computer that 
>    runs OSX roughly as well as a $2500 Mac Pro.
>	...
>
>I really doubt that an $800 PC is equivalent to a Mac Pro: the price
>difference in hardware is really not very large anymore.
>
>Maybe an $1,100 iBook.

Since the $2,500 Mac Pro has two dual-core 2.66Ghz Xeon processors 
and can take 16Gb RAM, while this 2.2Ghz Core 2 Duo with 4Gb, you are 
right.  Though it's more like the low-end Mac Book Pro thanks to the 
graphics.

Zane


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