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Old 01-07-2010, 06:18 PM
Imkantus Imkantus is offline
 
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Some thoughts about running Tiger on non-SSE2

Hi folks,

Well I recently received some old notebook as a gift with 1.2 Ghz Celereon CPU, SiS chipset and 256MB RAM, which I plan to upgrade to 1GB, as soon as I will get some universall power line cord I will be able to provide more informations...

I have no real use for this so I made some thaughts about playing around with it. Sadly it's not a Celereon M... so I thought about installing a minimal Linux based configuration, which will autoload xorg and a qemu vm with 10.4.11 installed.

Someone has any experience with something like that?
Do you think the peformance will be usable?

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Old 01-07-2010, 07:13 PM
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I dunno man. I think you may be outa luck with SSE. Are you sure it doesnt have SSE2 instructions? The Willamette Celerons came out before the Celeron D and way before Celeron M and they had SSE2. I could be wrong.

There was a a few threads about getting OSx to run on SSE which is prob what you were talking about.

Id love to hear where you go with that. Its nice to see people pushing hardware to the limits and overcoming obstacles. The lack of SSE2 or greater instructions being a big obstacle.



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