Windows 7 installed on a Pentium II-based PC

Here is the bottom line imo.

Apple don't sell as many Macs as they would like to. They therefore put a premium on the cost as they need to make money. The components arent any better than parts that can be bought separately but you pay the apple premium

They then offer upgrades like Snow Leopard for 29 dollars and people ignore they paid extra for the hardware they are running the software on.

I would like to see apple allow OSX to be run on non-apple machines. Ill bet that it will run really well on a standard desktop but Apple won't let it happen. They won't make enough money without selling the hardware at a premium plus I think they would have problems making it compatible with the same range of hardware that Microsoft users take for granted.

Well, part of making their OS exclusive to only their hardware is also part of their marketing. As said, i don't think they can really survive that well if their OS ran on every computer.

As far as my opinion on macs go, i do say that they're a fad machine more than anything :X I've used macs before and i find them just alright, but their prices don't justify most of their performance.

Taking simple comparison purchasing a apple notebook of same specs as compared to maybe a asus notebook or some other brand for that matter of the same specs, you're likely to fork out 2 if not 3 times more where i come from.

I'd have to side with Quantex_rox with his statement as well regarding better boards and better PSUs because well, they do exist and those brands stated ARE better than intel boards and whatever PSUs and it has been proven via statistics. Anyone who has gone and look at reviews around the web with statistics can see this really.

But sometimes its not just extra performance but what comes with the board as well, like how in general Asus boards and Gigabyte boards or eVGA so on so forth have better overclocking capabilities than the stock intel boards. As he said as well not many of the non enthusiast end may notice these things, but for people who spend time tinkering with their machine, or try pushing it to its maximum potential, you'll find that there is a difference.

If its one thing though, its that Apple has one of the best marketing teams in the world. Its respectable but i still won't get their hardware

Hmm, maybe I should install this on my 1 ghz pentium III, 256 mb of ram laptop

I want to see some benchmarks! What is the 3dMArk 2000 score for these

Crap, Apple charges a premium because people don't buy ENOUGH of their overpriced machines?

Watch out, under that theory Opera will start charging you for bandwidth that passes through their browser... don't tell them I said that.

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Damn right ^^

Interesting, but must have been slow
I installed Windows Vista on a K6-2, 500Mhz with 256MB RAM, the boot took about 5 minutes, took hours to install, but until Vista worked more or less, of course, after I installed off a lot of services.

The difference is a Opera is open source. I'm pretty sure Apple is not...

I still have a Thinkpad 300 with 160MB RAM and 20GB HDD. Maybe I will also try to install W7 if I can start the screen (that and it's batteries were the problems that made me stop using it).

Haha thats great that it was installed on such an old machine, it's just the processor taking a while to process all the info, thats all.

And for you Apple fanboys, why do you post here? why can't you post in the apple forums or something, jeez. I still have no reason to switch to an Apple Macintosh, which I know has great hardware, and warranty, don't get me wrong, but I just don't care for Macintosh Operating System X (yet) as I have been unable to use it enough to get into it.

The only way i'd ever get into Macintosh OS would be to have it ported to common personal computers, rather than just Mac personal computer hardware. It isn't that I won't switch, I just don't want to pay a premium for the hardware, and the warranty or support, as I can fix my own computer just fine. That is why i'll stick with custom that I build myself, and run Windows and Linux on.