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I saw my first hackintosh in the wild today...

I turned an Asus eeePC into a Hackintosh running Leopard, just for fun. It was a useful little portable with incredible battery capacity, though I never got a few things working (like the trackpad or being able to hook it up to an external display). I had an iMac, so it was just a project for fun, to see if I could do it.

I finally got tired of it (especially after I got an Asus Transformer, and finally a MBA).
 
I hackintosh'd a custom built PC like 7 years ago... it didn't work that well haha.

I'm sure it's a lot easier now-a-days, but I've since purchased an iMac and MBA, so no need :p
 
KylePowers said:
I hackintosh'd a custom built PC like 7 years ago... it didn't work that well haha.

I'm sure it's a lot easier now-a-days, but I've since purchased an iMac and MBA, so no need :p
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I thought the same thing too. my SO bought her MBP mid 2009, and compared to the Dell D830 I was given for work, it screamed. I waited until the MBA came with Sandy Bridge, magic trackpad, and backlit keyboard, and pulled the trigger on it last year.

Liked it so much that I dumped my Linux box, which was my main machine for 17 years, but didn't want to spend the 4 figures on a Mac Pro, iMac, or Mac Mini. so for $380, I hackintoshed. worked great out of the box, and haven't looked back since.

$300 - $400 for a hackintosh vs. nearly $1000 for a mac mini? can't get much better than that..

BL.
 
I'm currently running a hackintosh build with Lion and only have very minimal problems (front mic port and sleep functions refuse to work). Otherwise, it's a very solid machine, and my specs compare to that of a Mac Pro, only I spent $800 with custom built parts.

Lion is running on a 1 TB Hard Drive, and I have a second 1 TB drive for windows 7. A simple BIOS hard drive priority switch dictates which OS I want to boot into. :)
 
I'd love to do a custom build one day, but for me, the whole point of Mac OS is the seamlessness and how easy it is to use, and if it takes all that work to get Mac OS working on a custom build, that defeats the purpose for me. I'd much rather have just a PC build if that's what I was going to do.
 
mfuchs88 said:
I'd love to do a custom build one day, but for me, the whole point of Mac OS is the seamlessness and how easy it is to use, and if it takes all that work to get Mac OS working on a custom build, that defeats the purpose for me. I'd much rather have just a PC build if that's what I was going to do.
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You don't understand,its not for using it everyday,but rather a test to prove your worthiness,it shows you have the knowledge.

Besides its fun:)
 
macbook pro i5 said:
You don't understand,its not for using it everyday,but rather a test to prove your worthiness,it shows you have the knowledge.

Besides its fun:)
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Oh yeah I understand the concept, just for me it would be more fun to just do a custom gaming build on windows and play awesome games on it. :)
 
mfuchs88 said:
Oh yeah I understand the concept, just for me it would be more fun to just do a custom gaming build on windows and play awesome games on it. :)
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Yeah,I'm making a gaming rig with two hard drives,One for OS X and one for windows 7:D

It even has a gtx 670!(If you want to know the rest of the specs PM me).:)
 
I built an i5 hack last weekend after years of wanted to build one. After following the guides it was dead easy! I have two SSDs for the OSes and dual boot Windows 7 and Lion. It has been amazingly fun to build, and even more fun to use!
 
macbook pro i5 said:
I might not do it either,But apple might release drivers for the 6xx series.
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It wouldn't be Apple you'd have to worry about. nVidia would release the drivers, and they are easily applicable to hackintoshes.

BL.
 
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