Fauxzen.com » computer http://www.fauxzen.com Incoherent Ramblings in basic form Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:36:32 +0000 en hourly 1 OsX86 on MSI Wind Desktop http://www.fauxzen.com/2009/osx86-on-msi-wind-desktop/ http://www.fauxzen.com/2009/osx86-on-msi-wind-desktop/#comments Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:59:38 +0000 Shelby http://fauxzen.com/?p=873 So I did some changing around at my place. I originally bought and MSI Wind Desktop to use as a low powered File Server for all my Media. Its a pretty nice machine, 1.6ghz Atom CPU, 2gb of ram, and OS is on a 16gb CF card. Over all I was happy with it…. Until I started to run low on disk space. I placed a 1tb drive in it, but it only has 2 drive bays. I installed over PXE as I didn’t have a CD/DVD Drive.

Flash Forward to last night.

So Last night I decided to place the drive in my desktop machine as it has more than enough bays(7). I now was left with my MSI Wind doing nothing. I made a trip to Frys and picked up a $30 LiteOn DVD burner and put that in the machine. So now it has a DVD Drive and 16gb flash drive. I did some reading and I can install osx86 on it and from what I read it runs next to perfect. I am still waiting for the ISO to download and then I will let you guys know the outcome. I am hoping for the price of under $300 I will have a decent running machine with OS X installed. I will let you all know in case you too want to take the plunge on a cheap Faux-Apple desktop PC.

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Ryan was here over the last week and I wish my luck was as god as his.  Seems that he had a lucky streak as he was up around $1000 during the time he was here. Even though I haven’t won like that in a long time, he still treated us to nice steak dinner at Claim Jumpers.
I have started to plan out my new fileserver setup.  Mainly I have a dual 1ghz machine with 4gig of ram that I am going t put in pace as the fie server, and then take the d fileserver and make it a MythTv frontend for my bedroom…  Lets see how well this ends up working out.
 

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