flyakiteosx

[Schnabel]

Ok first of all, Leopard is $129. And I have used Flyakyte before. I was impressed with the likeness of it compared to OSX (10.4 btw). It got a little annoying after a while as it took a lot of processor power. I ended up uninstalling it from my computer except for the flurry screensaver which is just plain awesome. The best part about it is that if you find something you don't need/want, you can uninstall it. Oh and I just remembered, you have to have winblinds installed for it to work to it's full potential.

[mrbob1000]

i used it on my laptop for a ilttle wile... it wasnt as cool as i hoped.

[i_am_samus]

Yeah in the end it's just a skin, but a nice elaborate skin

[JamesBrown]

Originally Posted by Schnabel

Ok first of all, Leopard is $129. And I have used Flyakyte before. I was impressed with the likeness of it compared to OSX (10.4 btw). It got a little annoying after a while as it took a lot of processor power. I ended up uninstalling it from my computer except for the flurry screensaver which is just plain awesome. The best part about it is that if you find something you don't need/want, you can uninstall it. Oh and I just remembered, you have to have winblinds installed for it to work to it's full potential.

OSX is designed around Mac hardware and is optimized for it, this is a big part of the reason it runs so nicely, alot of this performance is lost on other systems.

If you are looking to install a better looking operating system rather than just looking for a nice skin then you are much better off looking at various linux distros rather than looking at mac os. Most are free and serve as a great way to learn more about your computer.

[Chris27]

Originally Posted by JamesBrown

OSX is designed around Mac hardware and is optimized for it, this is a big part of the reason it runs so nicely, alot of this performance is lost on other systems.

Well Mac's use the same motherboard chipsets, the same processors, the same graphic cards, the same ram, the same optical disks, about the only different thing about Macs vs PC's is that Macs boot off of EFI while PC's still use BIOS. With similar hardware, a PC running OSX will have the same performance as an apple computer running OSX.

[Derek Smith]

Originally Posted by Chris27

Well Mac's use the same motherboard chipsets, the same processors, the same graphic cards, the same ram, the same optical disks, about the only different thing about Macs vs PC's is that Macs boot off of EFI while PC's still use BIOS. With similar hardware, a PC running OSX will have the same performance as an apple computer running OSX.

And it would be a fair bit cheaper to build a system with similar hardware. I did a little searching a while back, and I found out you can buy all of the parts of a Mac on Newegg for $200-$300 cheaper than actually buying a Mac.