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I considered making a Hackintosh and guess what I found out!

opera57 said:
Well, yea. You might save a little bit in building your own hackintosh, but it will never run OS X how it was intented to run. Updates break it. It will be unstable. You can't beat a real mac
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From what I've seen successfully done, that's not the case at all. It is quite doable to build a hackintosh that outperforms any mac for less money, and is as stable as it can be. That computer can then be updated using software update without problems. You're just talking about early, less sophisticated methods of creating hackintoshes.
 
striatedglutes said:
and you're bringing up threads from March :rolleyes:
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Well yeah, you're right. I'll stop making that point then to those posts. But keep in mind that a person reading through these things might get the impression that hackintoshes have these disadvantages. And of course now they don't.
 
JasonA said:
I've been shopping for a new MBP recently, I don't think refrubs are all that everybody says they're cracked up to be. I did consider refurb, but you have to buy refurb from Apple, and Apple charges sales tax. It's cheaper to buy brand new from another retailer online that doesn't add sales tax, than it is buy a refurb from Apple. It was for me, anyway, and I live in Michigan where sales tax is 6%. Something to think about...
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If you buy from a shop that doesn't collect the sales tax, that doesn't mean you don't have to pay it. You are required to tell the IRS in your next tax return and will be charged then. You don't actually safe money, you are just given an opportunity to cheat on your taxes.
 
This thread is pure fanboyism.


OP, exactly how did you get that dell to $3000?


Equivalently spec'd PC's are cheaper than Macs. Thats actually a known fact in a field thats so subjective to everything else.


Very poor thread.
 
If you're going to hackintosh a netbook, the dell mini 9 is considered to be the best choice by many, but even it can have issues when applying numbered updates.

Ubuntu 9.04 netbook remix is actually pretty stable and usable, to my surprise. After snickering at the linux guys for '200_ is going to be the year for desktop linux, man!, I can see they actually have a point.

If my 70+ year old dad's ibook ever breaks, I think I'll get a PC and install ubuntu on it for him. I'm NOT going back to spending half a day twice a year to restore his windows setup ever again.
 
Upgrade, A Chunk At A Time

Hey, this is how I did it.

I started 4 years ago with a store-refresh Powerbook 17. Lost its HD after a year+ and I was sad.

Then I got a single-core mini. I ran on that for a while, and then got a white macbook (refurb), and did the painless User Migration thing, sold the mini to my business and its been in the co-lo for 1.5 years and is a happy server.

Then I sold the white macbook for 200$ less than I paid (16 mos later) and bought a just-before-unibody refurbed macbook pro 17, the coolest computer I've ever had in my life.

I saved 100$/mo towards all these purchases and it was easy. Just like quitting smoking, or, not getting an afternoon snack, etc.

G.
 
JasonA said:
I've been shopping for a new MBP recently, I don't think refrubs are all that everybody says they're cracked up to be. I did consider refurb, but you have to buy refurb from Apple, and Apple charges sales tax. It's cheaper to buy brand new from another retailer online that doesn't add sales tax, than it is buy a refurb from Apple. It was for me, anyway, and I live in Michigan where sales tax is 6%. Something to think about...
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refurbs are between 15% and 40% cheaper than new prize. salestax is only 6%-8%.

however sometimes the base model of the new MBP's is as good as the top end model of the old MBP's. So it really depends on what is important to you and how the models where updated. But you can get sometimes great deals where you get 10% less performance for 30% less money.
 
andiwm2003 said:
sometimes the base model of the new MBP's is as good as the top end model of the old MBP's
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SOME specs might be equal between generations, but SOME OTHER specs like internal buss speeds or amount of VRAM are another story. So you better dig deeper if you're trying to justify buying an older generation unit for "almost" the price of new.

In real life, though, many times even 25% performance boost is "nothing" so you would actually get better deal if the older unit was even 10% cheaper...
 
techound1 said:
And have you started playing with Windows 7 yet? All the bells and whistles of OS 10 without the heavy hardware costs (typing this on a $350 netbook on Win 7 - yeah, it runs it just fine...).
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If a $350 plastic netbook with crap parts makes you happy, then so be it. I have a Dell Mini 9, and as a novelty its alright, but for serious use? Yeah right. Keyboard is cramped, screen is small, very underpowered, etc. But if thats what kind of computer you want, then $350 is all you should spend. I demand a little more out of my hardware.
 
uberamd said:
If a $350 plastic netbook with crap parts makes you happy, then so be it. I have a Dell Mini 9, and as a novelty its alright, but for serious use? Yeah right. Keyboard is cramped, screen is small, very underpowered, etc. But if thats what kind of computer you want, then $350 is all you should spend. I demand a little more out of my hardware.
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Dell mini 10v has a lot better keyboard and screen, but the battery kinda sucks.
 
clyde2801 said:
Dell mini 10v has a lot better keyboard and screen, but the battery kinda sucks.
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I have a 10v and although the kb is great, the trackpad is awful. The machine is usable only with a separate mouse. BTW, netbooks are very capable, but my biggest gripe with the 10v and 9 and most netbooks is the resolution. 600 vertical sometimes is just too restrictive.
 
goldenaustin said:
I have a 10v and although the kb is great, the trackpad is awful. The machine is usable only with a separate mouse. BTW, netbooks are very capable, but my biggest gripe with the 10v and 9 and most netbooks is the resolution. 600 vertical sometimes is just too restrictive.
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Compared to the msi wind or lenovo s10, the dell's trackpad is miles ahead. But it just figures that there has no be one crippling flaw or two with every netbook....
 
clyde2801 said:
Compared to the msi wind or lenovo s10, the dell's trackpad is miles ahead. But it just figures that there has no be one crippling flaw or two with every netbook....
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The Toshiba NB205 would be the perfect Netbook if only it were to have a 720p screen. Maybe in the next revision.
 
uberamd said:
If a $350 plastic netbook with crap parts makes you happy, then so be it. I have a Dell Mini 9, and as a novelty its alright, but for serious use? Yeah right. Keyboard is cramped, screen is small, very underpowered, etc. But if thats what kind of computer you want, then $350 is all you should spend. I demand a little more out of my hardware.
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do you understand what a netbook is? i don't think anyone is arguing that a netbook is going to outperform a MBP, who tries to use one for those functions or for "serious use"? I think the point they were trying to make is that W7 is versatile and light enough to work on a netbook.

Sehnsucht said:
So my need for a MacBook Pro has reached a level of desperation that I never thought I'd reach: I've been browsing and configuring PC laptops from the likes of Dell, Sony and Alienware. Considering which one would be the best to make a Hackintosh out of. And GUESS WHAT!!! :D

The first two sneaky folks start off with a baseline configuration that looks cheap but SUCKS. Once I add decent NVIDIA graphics, a big enough hard drive, enough RAM, and a processor better than the standard crummy 2.0GHz, the price jumps from $799 to $3,000+ in a HURRY. (Not including, of course, the $129 for a retail copy of Leopard.) ;) But if I had $3,000 to spend, I'd just buy a real MacBook Pro instead and wouldn't be screwing around with a Hackintosh to begin with. :rolleyes:

Never mind that! I guess Steve will be getting his $3,000 EVENTUALLY. If I could just find the goddamn money somewhere. :D :D :D
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if your not sneaky enough to build your own box from scratch, why would you be interested in making a hackintosh or even opening the thread describing it? I know that sounds rough, but this looks more like "what refurb macbook should i buy?"
 
Jack Flash said:
The Toshiba NB205 would be the perfect Netbook if only it were to have a 720p screen. Maybe in the next revision.
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Yeah, I saw those were just released, and accordingly were getting top dollar for netbooks. Any reports on how easy it is to hackintosh it?

I opted for the dell because of the lack of fans/silent operation and the mydellmini forum support help. Those guys came up with the best hacks for the 9, so they're sure to do the same for the 10.

Toshiba's battery kicks the dell's a$$, no doubt about it. A two hour battery in 2009? I mean, come on!

And to be honest, I'm enjoying ubuntu netbook remix so much, I'm even wondering whether it's worth it to hackintosh it. The desktop interface on that os even flattened the learning curve a bit.
 
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