Questions about macs

[Underage_Thinker]

Hey I have just been pondering over 3 questions i have about macs, and i was wondering if sombody who works on, or just knows somthing about macs could answer them.

1.)Are you able to run the operating system on a reguler pc hardware.

2.)Is there hardware that you can upgrade a mac with, video card sound card ect. or are they un modeble

3.)Can you build a custom mac, or do you just have to buy the hole packege, operating system and hardware.

[Wizard of R'lyeh]

1. nope
2. yea, if you have a power mac (the towers)
3. yes and no, you can select different vairables in the specs era ( they range from $500 to $17,000) Mac users usually buy Macs for the OS, although you can install windows on the new intel based macs. (BOOT CAMP IS NOT AN EMULATOR). you have to buy the OS. Check out apple.com, because the only thing like the pc that apple sells is the powermac, teh iMac and the miniMac are both entirely diffrent form factors.

[Underage_Thinker]

k thanks, just needed some clarification.

[mr. self destruct]

Yay, someone who actually uses a mac on this forum!

[Kiros]

Heh, Benji (actually, I think it was Advent on his account) is just a Mac lover, not a user :P Haven't a clue about Forrest though.

[JunkBondTrader]

I have an Intel iMac as well as a PC (It was free) and there are ways to upgrade them and/or change the hardware but it's a little complicated. Now as for running MacOS on regular PC hardware that technically is possible but not really worth doing. Apple did nothing to prevent it from being run on old Pentium Pro machines. (I overclocked mine to 200MHz, it really runs hot! :P).

[Kiros]

Hmmm... I know pre-OS X, the Mac OS could not run without Apple's proprietary RAM. I thought it was also for OS X, but obviously I'm wrong :rolleyes: At any rate, the only hardware flaw with Mac is that it doesn't like AMD :P The only software flaw is the incompatibilities for some websites and some applications. Otherwise, it's a stable, fun OS :)