qviri, without SSE2 you're out of luck. SSE2 is the minimum requirement. Hopefully, you'll find a friend with a more recent rig where you can try OS X or you have to spend something like $200 for a new board and CPU. I can tell you that I've an Asus P5GD1-VM coupled with a Celeron D331 and 512 MB of...

qviri wrote:Yes, I looked into it before. I have an Athlon XP. No SSE3, no 64-bit, no NX, no pressing need to "upgrade" since it's plenty fast.

Do you have SSE2?

One has to eat the cake to know if its tasteful. At least a couple of times to be able to have an opinion. :) If you want to buy me a cake.... feel free to. I'd love to have a Mac for its looks personally, but they're selling for at least twice the price of a x86 system that does what I need it to ...

When was the last time you've tried one, for a long period? Give them a chance, Mac OS X is a lot of fun! As I've said, I never tried one. I detest iPod and its trend, I detest their white colour and I detest even more the Apple elitists. So no, I won't give them a try. They have done a good job wi...

When was the last time you've tried one, for a long period?

Give them a chance, Mac OS X is a lot of fun!

BTW, rpsgc, have you tried any kind of Mac?

rpsgc wrote: That page isn't mine FYI

I know the page isn't yours. These japanese guys are totally crazy, regularly when a new mac is out they buy it on the very first days they're on sale and disassemble them, just to see the internal parts.

I've heard that unlike the macbook pro in which the cpu is soldered to the motherboard, the imac actually has a socketed CPU. I've read reports where people have changed the CPU with no problems. As far as I know, the CPU is upgradable as well, although I don't know just how down and dirty you have...

It's expensive but it exists... 160GB 2.5" http://www.silentpcreview.com/article298-page1.html With what as been said so far I don't know how the "typical" iMac user would need 250 or 500GB. There's always external storage... but oh well, it's quiet as it is. I was just curious to why... Oh and the...

Good review and very well thought case as it seems . In my opinion, it could be an almost perfect case if it weren't for the lack of: 1- A frontal FireWire 400 port. 2- Stealth drive bays for the optical drives. 3- A quieter PSU fan. Adding this wouldn't cost, probably, more than $10 to the final co...

ive always had a thing for apples, but never owned one. just never had the money to keep my PC's up to date and buy a mac. If you wish to try Mac OS X you can do it with a PC. To learn how to do it go to www.osx86project.org. I'm doing it with an Asus board and a Celeron D 331 and it runs smooth. A...

Good to see you finally giving macs some attention . About some of your power and screen troubles, like those stated in "Much of the power savings in the low power mode seems to come from a reduction in the brightness of the LCD screen, which drops to the lowest possible brightness. This sometimes g...

MikeC,

Can you get samples of some of these boards for a review like the ones made for the Pentium M boards?

Hyphe wrote:Here's an intresting summary.

http://www2u.biglobe.ne.jp/~shinta/be/_ ... 200602.htm

Thanks for the info. There seems to be an error on the list: the DFI board is a socket 775 and not a 479, so I dought it supports the Core Duo processor.

Tom's Hardware have posted a review of Aopen's i975Xa-YDG board:

http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/03/07/ ... e_desktop/

2006 seems a good year for silent, cooler...and powerful computing. Also good news from Intel/IDF Spring roadmap, Anandtech and other sites have reviews.