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04-23-2009, 04:53 PM
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OSX86 Laptop Recommendations
Hello fellow OSX86 users! I am in need of your help! I am contemplating to purchase a new laptop in the near future to run OSX, but I need to be sure that I purchase something that fits my needs and wants.
I have spent many hours already research and looking online for the best osx86 compatible laptop (excluding apple of course), and seem to find that some work and some don't. Some need patching for hardware, etc. I'd like to find one that is a "vanilla" based, where very little patching is required, if that is possible. Anyhow, one of my dilemmas is the software I run. I do a lot of 3d modeling, and use OpenGL with Autodesk Maya and similar products, therefore 3d acceleration is a must to have! Along with true OpenGL support. In short, this is the specs I am looking for: 1. 15.4 inch laptop (wide screen if possible) 2. Intel Core 2 Duo with a couple megs of cache (3- 4 mb) 3. nVidia graphics with OpenGL 2.0 or higher support - pci express if possible too. Oh, shared video memory doesn't matter to be, but dedicated memory would be better. 4. 2 GB (expandable to 4 GB) 5. 200 to 250+ hard drive Serial ATA. 6. Working Wireless & Ethernet 7. USB 2.0 & firewire support. 8. ExpressCard support for modern cards. 9. Resolution 1280x800 to 1680x1050 resolution. As long as it's widescreen, i'm fine. 10. I'd like to have good power management, and working audio as well. Well, I hope I am not asking too much! Based on my reading of the forums, it is not easy to find anything along these lines (except buying a macbook pro) which I can't afford right now... Feel free to send me your recommendations, I will gladly welcome them! 
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04-23-2009, 05:09 PM
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I did a similar search and found some IBM Lenovo notebook, but I didn't need to buy one yet. You can try the search of notebooksbilliger.de. It's German, but the listed system specs are nearly language-independent.
2 Opteron systems: OSx86 10.5.8, Andy's 9.8.0 kernel, Asus A8N-SLI Premium, Opteron 185 o'clocked @ 2 x 2,95 GHz (2nd system 2.6 GHz), ATI Radeon HD2600XT 256MB Dual-Monitor 2x HP L2035, 4 GB RAM, Griffin FireWave as main audio device, Marvell + nForce LAN, Asus U3S6 USB3/SATA6 card, 5,5 TB harddisk, Firewire 800 card, Apple Remote + eHome IR receiver, 2x Wacom serial graphics tablet, Canon Pixma iP4700, Logitech Internet Navigator wireless keyboard/mouse combination. My Audio stuff: M-Audio Transit USB (default audio), M-Audio ProFire 610, M-Audio ProFire Lightbridge (34 channels) using Creamware A16 ADAT converter • MIDI: M-Audio Midiman 4x MIDI interface • Behringer Audio Mixers: Xenyx 1002, Xenyx 1002FX, Xenyx 1202FX, Eurorack UB1002FX, Eurorack MX1804FX, Eurorack MX262A • FX devices: Lexicon MPX100 DSP, Behringer DSP-1000 Virtualizer, Behringer MiniFEX 800 DSP, Behringer Multicom Pro MDX4400 compressor • RETRO: MSSIAH midi/sequencer/synthesizer cardridge for the C64 (Dual-SID), Steinberg M.S.I. MIDI Interface for C64
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#3
04-23-2009, 11:17 PM
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Thanks...
Naquadda,
Thanks for the link. I will use it. It is so hard to decide which laptop to get, it's crazy! I'm tempted just to find a used Macbook, avoid all the installation issues. Then again, to run osx on a notebook to show others would be quite something to see their reactions... :-) I truly think (this is my opinion, mind you - nothing else) that most Mac users use their Macs as a way to superiority to others (PC users) when in reality, all they have is a nice fancy unix box, running on PC architecture. The only difference is the software. I'd want to run OSX on a PC to prove my point to others. But that's my opinion. But the reason why I want a laptop with OSX is not to show off to, but to run applications! I want to run more than just Windows! I want all 3 major operating sytems on one machine that's portable. And run any application ever written! No limitations and no boundaries! I have done some research and have kinda found the following: Dell Inspirion 1525 - It seems to work right out of the box! However this is not sold anymore by dell! Would the new Inspirion 15 work with 10.5.6? It looks quite nice. The only drawback I have is the Intel GMA chipset. I don;t know if it would be good enough to run Maya and major 3d applications. I'm sure any major video app would be fine, it's PCI express! I'll keep you posted on my findings. There's no rush on this. I want to make a good decision. Anyhow, thanks for your help. thorpedonj ps. What thinkpad model were you looking at? Just curious...
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05-22-2009, 09:32 AM
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I'm bumping this thread because it's pretty much my dilemma as well. I'm looking to get a 15" laptop for my wife to use. I'm really just looking for something that works easily out of the box like the original poster said. It doesn't have to have a lot of graphics power, though.
Suggestions on a laptop currently available that just works?
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#5
05-22-2009, 06:46 PM
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hello,
sorry to disappoint some of you for not answering your questions with my post, because i too would like to ask if anybody already uses/bought a laptop on which osx86 could be installed without too much patching... It doesn't have to be too expensive, my intention is to use it for adobe programs, so graphic spec doesn't have to be too good. 💡 Deploy cloud instances seamlessly on DigitalOcean. Free credits ($100) for InfMac readers.
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