My hackintosh :-)

[mjnurney]

My quest for a non Microsoft operating system that is both well supported and easy to use led me to try and get osx on my intel atom motherboard.

As an apple user anyway I knew my way around osx and apart from some funny oddments it's a nice thing to use...

So my motherboard & CPU are intel dual core 1.6 atom on a micro atx motherboard. Nice and small.

So after many hours of can't install , won't install - I now have osx working pretty much perfectly on my little atom board!!

While I'll agree it's not the fastest thing on earth, it runs YouTube, surfs the net and looks nice in it's little black case.

So all in all I'm a happy bunny, I'll pop a couple of pics on later

intel Atom 1.6 dual core
intel D945 micro atx board -D945GCLF2
1 gb ram
osx leopard 10.5
black micro atx case with apple logo lol

 

[cosmicfrog]

nice one
there is a cd out there some where for installing it on a msi wind of which i have a clone/rebaged netbook, os10 worked great apart from the camera

 

[mjnurney]

There's a boot cd which has cameleon on it , you need am original osx DVD tho to install.
Cemeleon just makes osx think it's on an apple machine.

 

[Amigafanboi]

I Hackintoshed my Dell mini9 netbook and it ran absolutley great on OsX.

 

[Cloudane]

Good work

Quick tip, see if there's a Runcore SSD for your system if you can justify the investment. I put one into my Eee 901 and OS X ended up running faster on it than my iMac. Decent SSDs really are the dog's wotsits.

I've since sold the iMac and built an i7 dual purpose Hackintosh and Windows gaming beastie. Brilliant decision. I have all the things that Steve won't normally let me have (Bag-of-hurt drive aka. Blu-ray, the ability to change my hard drive for an SSD without paying through the nose or performing life risking surgery, decent graphics card etc) with all the awesomeness that is OS X. With the correct research and a bit of common sense when updates arrive it's pretty easy to maintain.

 

[cosmicfrog]

indeed it is crazy that you can make a better machine than apple is perpared to sell you and for a lot less

 

[Hell_Labs]

Depends on your definition, sure you might get a faster one for less money, but it's in an ugly metal box.

My specs:

g41m-es2l motherboard
2GB of ram
e5200 @ 3Ghz
9600 GT
some random 500gb ide drive

and snow leopard. Dual boots windows occasionally.

 

[mjnurney]

Apple machines are almost always good looking things....PC's are usually ugly boxes with fans blasting away!

but yes if your keen you could make a fast and quiet apple a like im sure

 

[salaxi54]

You can easily build a nice hackintosh machine!
I've built two already, one for me and one for a cousin, here's a few pics of the machine i built for her:

That's based on a real cheap pc case i got locally.
Here's the model: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...m1402X558040Xd53ad2236f78565f9f28c11149b24e26

Fascia has been modded of course with aluminum sheet, to cover the floppy slot, huge power button etc. USB, power and reset have been "transplanted" to a small plastic panel to look more like the MacPro front.
My case was black, so i had to paint it. The side apples are both hand-painted by yours trully.
System is a C2Duo @2.66, 2 GB RAM, GF 8400 GS, M-Audio Audiophile 2496.

Here's the one i made for myself, the one on the bottom left:

 

[mjnurney]

nice work Power mac pro cases look nice

 

[cosmicfrog]

indeed its not like you cant buy a nice case
but spose if you a mac person you all ready caught

 

[rkauer]

A street seller have some of those blue cases with a G3 machine inside for some money.

The case is hard to modify to house a pc? I think I can make my own hackIntosh, then. :mrgreen:

 

[salaxi54]

Rogerio, dremel is your friend on that!
Get the B&W G3, mod the case, and save the G3 cpu for future BPPC upgrades...

 

[mjnurney]

i'll be getting a mac pro case and a decent mobo & cpu and making a faster one i think ...

 

[Hell_Labs]

A street seller have some of those blue cases with a G3 machine inside for some money.

The case is hard to modify to house a pc? I think I can make my own hackIntosh, then. :mrgreen:

Don't do that. The blue G3 is quite rare as they only sold them for about six months.

 

[Cloudane]

There's value in all of the genuine Macs, sure.

Mac Pro - Workstation grade hardware (expensive stuff, and actually good value if compared like for like I.e. Xeon processors etc)

iMac - Great value if you like what you're given in terms of screen and insides, and they even put an IPS panel in it (way way better quality than the TN panels that most cheap LCDs have)

Mini - The power:size ratio is unmatched (anything "PC" that size is Atom crap)

Laptops - Unmatched build quality, which is a must for a portables, and again a superb panel. Okay the Toshiba laptops we have at work are adequate for half the price but poorer components, plasticy build quality and the screens are absolutely ghastly.

The problem is they have no consumer grade equivalent of the Mac Pro (and as a consumer I don't need the guarantees of ECC memory and such hence I can't justify the price). I think they just don't want the hassle that PC sellers have of their customers coming in for support after their nephew has tried to fit some random PCIe card off eBay or whatever. But it means that geeks with geek needs and finite wallets need to build Hackintoshes.

 

[mjnurney]

Well I'm both a mac user and a hackintosh user , why mac because it's well made and not windows. I've used windows since 3.11 and I've grown to hate it - and the pc in general. The apple stuff is far from perfect but it is much better made than typical pc stuff and I just like to use osx. So why did I build a hackintosh then? Simply to see if I could.

Yes apple stuff is expensive but you get what you pay for and it seems that more and more electrical stuff is being made to last twelve months before breaking, freezing , solder failing (xbox,ps3 junk) or windows so full of viruses, pop ups and adverts that it's unuseable.

I've been using windows pcs a lot of years, since dos & windows 3... And the best one I ever bought ? None of them. I will never buy another windows pc, ever.I'm sick of crashing, updates, driver errors, direct x this that and the other.

A hackintosh for me, is a bit of fun and nothing more. The intel atom is slow , osx doesn't run as well as it should or come even close to being as quick as my iMac.

Linux or osx from now on , windows only when I'm desperate to run software that's windows only.

But that's just my opinon .

 

[jvdbossc]

Well I'm both a mac user and a hackintosh user , why mac because it's well made and not windows. I've used windows since 3.11 and I've grown to hate it - and the pc in general. The apple stuff is far from perfect but it is much better made than typical pc stuff and I just like to use osx. So why did I build a hackintosh then? Simply to see if I could.

Yes apple stuff is expensive but you get what you pay for and it seems that more and more electrical stuff is being made to last twelve months before breaking, freezing , solder failing (xbox,ps3 junk) or windows so full of viruses, pop ups and adverts that it's unuseable.

I've been using windows pcs a lot of years, since dos & windows 3... And the best one I ever bought ? None of them. I will never buy another windows pc, ever.I'm sick of crashing, updates, driver errors, direct x this that and the other.

A hackintosh for me, is a bit of fun and nothing more. The intel atom is slow , osx doesn't run as well as it should or come even close to being as quick as my iMac.

Linux or osx from now on , windows only when I'm desperate to run software that's windows only.

But that's just my opinon .

I am happy wit that, I had quite a few mac os x on pc run on pc hardware. As long as XP is supported I'll stick with windows xp, after that I'll buy one machine.. Windows 7 is on the wild ... I use Ubuntu most of the time, or one of my amiga's.