I have a quad core dual-screen beast of a hackintosh that I use at my apartment for programming and a MBA that I tote with me to class. Perfect combo.
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I have a quad core dual-screen beast of a hackintosh that I use at my apartment for programming and a MBA that I tote with me to class. Perfect combo.
Currently typing this on a virtualised hackintosh. Running in VirtualBox on a Ubuntu 10.10 server. The specs are:
Athlon X2 2.2GHZ
3GB DDR2 800
1TB HDD
I only have 512MB allocated memory for the VM and its still pretty smooth running, though ive not tried anything heavy like iPhoto.
Athlon X2 2.2GHZ
3GB DDR2 800
1TB HDD
I only have 512MB allocated memory for the VM and its still pretty smooth running, though ive not tried anything heavy like iPhoto.
ahh that really is a perfect combo! how do you sync apps/docs between the two? ive yet to figure out a... good way
512MB? wah cutting it close! ive been running Lion in a VM off 1GB and its a tight squeeze! but it opened up 30 applications at once pretty well
Im just using it in a vm lab for pentesting, 512mb is fine running along side 2 XP vms and a server 2003 vm.
running along side 2 XP vms and a server 2003 vm.thanks for the link, This will really help!
Yes it is. thats exactly what im going for. I'm a noob when it comes to computers so i have some learning to do while a save up.
Im just using it in a vm lab for pentesting, 512mb is fine
all with 3GB RAM? you are far too keen
all with 3GB RAM? you are far too keen
I know, its a tight squeeze but as before with the sofa budget I have to make do with what I have
Dropbox! All of my docs are on Dropbox. Works perfectly.
Apps and music are on the main hackintosh with movies on a server hackintosh. I don't typically have room for any of that on my tiny 64GB flash on the MBA. I would go with the 128GB if I could do it all over.
I have this combo and it has been great.
My hardware set up:
Gigabyte X58A-UD3R
Intel Core i7 950
Gigabyte Radeon 5770 1GB video card
The rest shouldn't matter as far as compatibility goes. I used iboot and multibeast from tonymacx86.
oh truueeeee. arent bean-bags cheap enough?I know, its a tight squeeze but as before with the sofa budget I have to make do with what I have
OH wow. every notice any latency of sorts with that? especially with larger files?
pfft. go for the 512GB
very clever way of organising and backing up at the same time though!
Never had any problems with that sort of thing. How big of files are we talking here? haha
In fact, I keep all my code on my Dropbox so I can work from any machine and have all my changes synced. I can even do git commits on my code and that syncs as well!
Dropbox has a LAN sync feature so wouldn't be that slow at all on the same network, unless theres some huge files being modified or copied.
anything above 10mb-20mb i guess? some word files, pdfs and ppts can easily get that big! its a common occurrence in my day
git comments? but yes - thats very cool, i love how it works in that regard. though you could just setup rsync to work in the background behind the scenes and have unlimited storage - but whatever
OH! that is true! i forgot about this feature, nice one. *enables on own machines*
Never had an issue. I'm guessing they only sync the changes rather than the entire file again.
Finally got Lion running on my Hackintosh (specs in sig) with full res, quartz extreme, sleep & shutdown (not restart), NIC & audio
used the older basesystem.dmg installer and Chameleon RC3 with a new Netkas Lion boot file.
http://chameleon.osx86.hu/articles/chameleon-20-rc3-with-snow-leopard-and-large-disk-support
http://netkas.org/?p=660
then added arch=i386 -v -usecache to my boot plist, added my DSDT & smbios, installed FakeSMS to /S/L/E and updated mkext.
theres a DF panic that occurs a lot though and the trick i read is to press enter straight away for the Lion partition or set it as the default partition in Chameleon.
(specs in sig) with full res, quartz extreme, sleep & shutdown (not restart), NIC & audioused the older basesystem.dmg installer and Chameleon RC3 with a new Netkas Lion boot file.
http://chameleon.osx86.hu/articles/chameleon-20-rc3-with-snow-leopard-and-large-disk-support
http://netkas.org/?p=660
then added arch=i386 -v -usecache to my boot plist, added my DSDT & smbios, installed FakeSMS to /S/L/E and updated mkext.
theres a DF panic that occurs a lot though and the trick i read is to press enter straight away for the Lion partition or set it as the default partition in Chameleon.
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Finally got Lion running on my Hackintosh
SCORE! well done man
see - i KNEW that config of hardware would be great
yeah! love the hardware always works, even in Lion! only the 4870 is getting a little old now, but always works perfect with GE=yes
yeah! love the hardware always works, even in Lion! only the 4870 is getting a little old now, but always works perfect with GE=yes
Awesome, I was going to give Lion a shot over the weekend on my hackintosh but I ran out of time
It was pretty unstable on my MBA when I installed it. How is it on that better hardware?
Which components for AMD sixcore hackintosh?
I will setup a new computer with a AMD 6 cores CPU (I'm aware that is more easy with Intel, so pls stick to the question..). I wanna know which parts I need to buy for make a easy install of a hackintosh on it.
I wanna put a decent graphics card, so I imagine I can safely buy any of the one listed here...
I will setup a new computer with a AMD 6 cores CPU (I'm aware that is more easy with Intel, so pls stick to the question..). I wanna know which parts I need to buy for make a easy install of a hackintosh on it.
I wanna put a decent graphics card, so I imagine I can safely buy any of the one listed here...
As far as I'm aware, its not an easy process to turn an AMD based computer into a hackintosh, in fact most people may even say you cannot do it. I cannot say for sure so check out insanelymac.com, if it can be done, the steps needed along with what components are compatible will be listed there.