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Hack&Lube · 08-01-2010, 03:07 PM

You mentioned building your own computer before, I would basically recommend that route and choosing your parts well for compatibility and stability. I have never had a problem with hardware in many years now after I stopped cheaping out on components and started buying good motherboards and high end power supplies and providing adequate cooling.

Mind if I ask what issues you are having with hardware that are giving you the headaches? That seems like an odd problem to me, most of the times it is software and the fault is with the OS, not the hardware unless it's junk with poor driver support or low end or mass produced Dell/HP low end boxes. Hardware failures occur with everything, even Apple. If you lost a lot of data on your backups, I understand that is awful. For me, it was the actual harddrives dying (Seagate) and not the fault of anything else. There are much better backup solutions out there like a Drobo or RAID setup with automatic imaging with Acronis, etc.

As for switching to Apple, since everything is Intel based and if you do know what you are doing, you could just install OSX on your current PC hardware and use bootcamp to have both solutions. You are making this all far more complicated than it needs be. You can have both worlds running off the same hardware with some effort. My current machine has Windows Server that I want to run Win7 virtualizations off eventually, a Linux Partition, an XP Parition, and I'm thinking of trying to bootcamp OSX onto it as well at some point to check it out. I have reverse bootcamp on my WinXP right now. Why must you transition over completely? What are your computing needs that you need to go and convert absolutely everything over?

08-01-2010, 03:07 PM	#6
Hack&Lube Atomic Nerd Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Calgary Exp:	You mentioned building your own computer before, I would basically recommend that route and choosing your parts well for compatibility and stability. I have never had a problem with hardware in many years now after I stopped cheaping out on components and started buying good motherboards and high end power supplies and providing adequate cooling. Mind if I ask what issues you are having with hardware that are giving you the headaches? That seems like an odd problem to me, most of the times it is software and the fault is with the OS, not the hardware unless it's junk with poor driver support or low end or mass produced Dell/HP low end boxes. Hardware failures occur with everything, even Apple. If you lost a lot of data on your backups, I understand that is awful. For me, it was the actual harddrives dying (Seagate) and not the fault of anything else. There are much better backup solutions out there like a Drobo or RAID setup with automatic imaging with Acronis, etc. As for switching to Apple, since everything is Intel based and if you do know what you are doing, you could just install OSX on your current PC hardware and use bootcamp to have both solutions. You are making this all far more complicated than it needs be. You can have both worlds running off the same hardware with some effort. My current machine has Windows Server that I want to run Win7 virtualizations off eventually, a Linux Partition, an XP Parition, and I'm thinking of trying to bootcamp OSX onto it as well at some point to check it out. I have reverse bootcamp on my WinXP right now. Why must you transition over completely? What are your computing needs that you need to go and convert absolutely everything over? Last edited by Hack&Lube; 08-01-2010 at 03:14 PM.