What is the Dell Mini 10? I don't know anything about it. How is it able to run Mac OS X?
According to an article I read in MaximumPC Magazine certain components are required to run Mac OS X. For example, you have to use Intel and not AMD chips. And only certain motherboards work. It is not that special computer components are required for a Mac. Everyday components will work. But certain components need to be used and not other components. And a Mac does not use the BIOS setup of a Windows computer. That was the reason for the EF-IX device.
As long as the right components are used and if you can somehow setup the Mac O/S to run you could probably build a desktop computer running the Mac OS X for a few hundred dollars. Depending on how powerful you wanted for the computer to be maybe it would cost something like $1500.00 to build one as powerful as a Mac Pro.
When that device became available I considered having a computer built that would run Mac OS X and Windows 7 (on separate hard drives). I am glad now I did not do that because according to what I have heard that device was a rip-off.
Building the computer is not the hard part. You have to be able to get Mac OS X up and running and Apple has deliberately made that difficult. But according to what I have heard some ten bucks worth of gear makes it all possible.
According to an article I read in MaximumPC Magazine certain components are required to run Mac OS X. For example, you have to use Intel and not AMD chips. And only certain motherboards work. It is not that special computer components are required for a Mac. Everyday components will work. But certain components need to be used and not other components. And a Mac does not use the BIOS setup of a Windows computer. That was the reason for the EF-IX device.
As long as the right components are used and if you can somehow setup the Mac O/S to run you could probably build a desktop computer running the Mac OS X for a few hundred dollars. Depending on how powerful you wanted for the computer to be maybe it would cost something like $1500.00 to build one as powerful as a Mac Pro.
When that device became available I considered having a computer built that would run Mac OS X and Windows 7 (on separate hard drives). I am glad now I did not do that because according to what I have heard that device was a rip-off.
Building the computer is not the hard part. You have to be able to get Mac OS X up and running and Apple has deliberately made that difficult. But according to what I have heard some ten bucks worth of gear makes it all possible.
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