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[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.