Legit vs Hackintosh ?

[NoSmokingBandit]

Oh please can we avoid the whole EULA pissing match for once. It doesnt matter if its legal or not, people are still going to install it on their pc, so bitching about it isnt going to do anything but piss off a lot of people are massively derail this thread.

 

[lemonade-maker]

Oh please can we avoid the whole EULA pissing match for once. It doesnt matter if its legal or not, people are still going to install it on their pc, so bitching about it isnt going to do anything but piss off a lot of people are massively derail this thread.

Title is "Legit vs Hackintosh". Seem like a reasonable and on topic point to discuss.

 

[NUFC2025]

I have built a hackintosh because both of my previous macs developed faults and were going to cost too much money to fix and i already had the pc parts to do it, so cost me nothing. I refuse to buy another mac when i can run osx on hardware i have.
I might consider it in the future when funds allow.

i have leopard on it and fully up to date, it runs perfect and has done so for months.

 

[fhall1]

Title is "Legit vs Hackintosh". Seem like a reasonable and on topic point to discuss.

I have to agree with NoSmokingBandit....every one of these threads starts out with a decent discussion of hardware and techniques and then gets ruined with post after post after post from the amateur lawyers in the group spouting about both sides of the EULA violation argument. Please leave this thread somewhat technical....there's a dozen other threads where we can fall asleep reading about pseudo-legal opinions about Apple's EULA if we so desire.

 

[murdercitydevil]

Source on SLI for osx, Mr?

I may have been mistaken, at least partly, about that. I thought i remembered seeing something on prasys or netkas' blogs about SLI, but it seems it either only works on the few rare nv chipsets that OS X works on, or it will work with 2 cards, but they'll be seen separately. I think though that dual-GPU cards like the 5970 will work though.

 

[freeman727]

If you don't mind jumping through hoops every now and then, it's fine. If you don't depend on that machine for a living, then it's fine.

The advantage of the Mac Pro comes from the fact that everything was designed and specified to work perfectly. With a hackintosh, you've got to find drivers for all of your stuff, makes sure what you're buying isn't just a slight bit different than what you really need, etc.

It's cheaper sure, but is it worth it? It's only cheaper if your time is worthless, IMO.

jshbckr hit the nail on the head. I was an ex-hackintosher. I wasted toooooo much time in updating and finding drivers. Plus there are moments (albeit rare) that I would get kernel panics. The real benefit of my hackintosh experiment was to see how awesome OS X is compared to Windows. I now have a Mac Pro and MBP, and use a hacked copy of Windows on Boot Camp anytime I really need to go into Windows.

 

[Agaetis Byrjun]

About a year and a half ago I bought what was thought to be the perfect hackintosh setup, motherboard/RAM/video card/audio interface all would run perfectly. While I did deal with all the kext and drivers issues one runs into, I was able to get the thing running perfectly. I told myself after that I would never pay the money for a genuine MP.

Now I'm going to guess that all of us ran out and bought SL the day it came out, I know I did. So it was a real disappointment when I got home and couldn't install it. I knew it would only be a matter of time before someone came up with some type of fix that would allow me to get SL running. It's now been 9 months since SL's release and I'm still running 10.5.8. I've spent hours/days trying to get 10.6 running to no avail.

So it's not just updates that can be a pain, it's a potential OS problem. So it would seem I'm stuck until I either invest in another hackintosh or put up the cash for a MP. It's just too bad I didn't think of this at the time. But I do have to say, I learned much more about OSX getting a hackintosh running than I ever did with my MBP.

I'll for sure pick up a new MP once the upcoming one is ever released.

Agaetis

 

[parakiet]

anyway.. that apple support, how far does it go?
i can imagine it isn't as bright a they claim it.
anyone here actually been helped by them?

 

[McGiord]

anyway.. that apple support, how far does it go?
i can imagine it isn't as bright a they claim it.
anyone here actually been helped by them?

Nothing is perfect. And what I can tell you is that will always be behind their products for service and support. Obviously as technology evolves the life cycle to release new products becomes shorter, therefore some things will become obsolete faster than what we were used to.

I have a MacBook late 2006, made out of cheap plastic, lesson learned avoid plastic products from China, get aluminum Macs instead. Apple had replaced the broken plastic case parts a couple of times even out of warranty.

iPhone 3G, same history about plastic: cracks. Always replaced even out of warranty.

MacBook Pro: started to experience kernel panics, RAM or motherboard faulty, it is out of warranty = flat fee of repair $310, they call it depot repair. New RAM...could be something like that, motherboard...way more.

Go to a Genius Bar for any thing and they will do a free diagnostic of what is going on, if you need customer satisfaction ask for the manager and they will do their best to make you a happy customer. They will find a way to make you happy.

If you face some Genius that are not so...ask for the manager.

Even using their website for support, you can get a direct call from a support specialist right away, and they will guide you to do diagnostics or schedule the Genius Bar appointments.

I thought that I will never need apple care, but it turns out that it is worth the price, next Mac I buy, will definitely get apple care.

Anyway there is always www.ifixtit.com for some do it yourself repairs.