My hackintosh has been running 24/7 with almost no problems for months now. I built it in a G3 PowerMac case. Check out the thread in my sig to see the build process. It is frikin awesome lol
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The Merged Hackintosh Thread
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That is a neat setup. I have two G3 Blue & White Mac towers, but they both work so well, I would hate to kill them.
Mine was working, but I didnt use it for anything, so I made a project out of it
It is far superior. I went from a geekbench score of around 1700 to 6100. It's a lot quieter than my Mini/MiniStack II combo, that's for sure. And Aperture flies through raw images - it's almost like watching a movie when you scroll through images. My only wishes are (1) fw was more reliable, (2) updating the OS would be easier, and (3) I had done it sooner.
From insanelymac forums it seems to be the most compatible board, particularly when matched with an Intel SSE3/4 Core 2 and Nvidia 8xxx series.
on board firewire isnt of high quality and not as fast. get a firewire PCI or PCI Express card with a TI chipset. you could also get firewire 800 as well.
help PLEASEE
Hi, i really need some help installing leopard onto my windows based laptop, its a vostro 1400.
basically i have the iatkos 2.0i dvd and try to install using it, but it loads the dvd, and where the language box appears i click the next button, it ehn says something about preparing install, then the computer just switches off, anyone has the same problem??
Hi, i really need some help installing leopard onto my windows based laptop, its a vostro 1400.
basically i have the iatkos 2.0i dvd and try to install using it, but it loads the dvd, and where the language box appears i click the next button, it ehn says something about preparing install, then the computer just switches off, anyone has the same problem??
Your hard drive is probably formatted as NTSF. You cannot load Apple software on that format.
The only reason I want it to be more reliable is for my video camera, not hard drives. I bought an eSATA/FW/USB2 drive and it works just fine with the hackintosh and my other 3 Macs.
It is far superior. I went from a geekbench score of around 1700 to 6100. It's a lot quieter than my Mini/MiniStack II combo, that's for sure. And Aperture flies through raw images - it's almost like watching a movie when you scroll through images. My only wishes are (1) fw was more reliable, (2) updating the OS would be easier, and (3) I had done it sooner.
From insanelymac forums it seems to be the most compatible board, particularly when matched with an Intel SSE3/4 Core 2 and Nvidia 8xxx series.
fyi, the 10.5.4 update works via apples software update on my hackintosh. no issues at all
very cool indeed
Did you go from 10.5.3 to 10.5.4, or directly from 10.5.2 (or earlier) to 10.5.4 (i.e., bypassing the 10.5.3 update)?
I enjoy my hackintosh, it's been quite good to me for a few months now. I ditched a nasty glossy-screened 20" iMac for it. It's really fast. Almost everything works perfectly.
The only problem that I haven't been able to resolve is that my card readers (one built into my Dell 2407wfp monitor and one built into my Epson printer) don't work. If my machine recognizes the SD card at all, the USB Mass Storage process hangs. Usually it just doesn't see the card. As it is, I have to plug my Nikon D40 DSLR in directly in order to read the images from the card. No problems there at all. Do I just need to buy a standalone card reader? Does anyone have a hackintosh and a card reader that works well?
The only problem that I haven't been able to resolve is that my card readers (one built into my Dell 2407wfp monitor and one built into my Epson printer) don't work. If my machine recognizes the SD card at all, the USB Mass Storage process hangs. Usually it just doesn't see the card. As it is, I have to plug my Nikon D40 DSLR in directly in order to read the images from the card. No problems there at all. Do I just need to buy a standalone card reader? Does anyone have a hackintosh and a card reader that works well?
I thought I would never buy Mac Pro but I did about 3 months ago and Im so glad I did. This is by far the best computer I have ever owned and I couldn't be happier.
So guys, what do you use your Hackintoshes for?
Everything I used to use my Mini for, except now I have three 3 gbps SATA 7200 rpm 32 mb cache 3.5" hard drives, a real video card that can drive two 30" displays, a 20x DVD burner, eSATA ports and 4 gb of RAM. Oh, and have I said it's much faster?
So guys, what do you use your Hackintoshes for?
Mine is my main machine at home, complemented by a MacBook Pro. I have 24" and 20" monitors hooked up to it and do lots of web design and graphics work. I got rid of my glossy iMac because the screens in those things are horrible.
My hackintosh also has four hard drives in it totaling 2.4 TB. One is my system and personal drive, two are for media, and one is for backup of critical items.
Building the hackintosh allowed me to get larger, high quality screens for graphics work than I could with the iMac, as well as add more hard drives (which enabled me to permanently shut down a Linux server which previously held them -- saves power). It also gave me more headroom for RAM -- I've got 4GB now and I think I'll bump it to 8GB soon.
Any advantages of 10.5.4 over 10.5.2? I've heard a lot of complaints about 10.5.3 (and not just from hackintosh users).
my geekbench score jumped by about 200 pts to now around 6500ish
in my case i had to reset the bios for not ahci when i did the 10.5.3 upgrade. didnt the first time and well had to reinstall the whole thing which sucked
to get the ahci, i just reinstalled the kexts then reset bios for ahci and works great
i would reccomend upgrading if you can imo
Dude I am sick of hearing about this crap. The "hackintosh" is exactly what it sounds like, a shoddy hack that has a better chance of NOT working on your particular hardware setup than working. Oh, and if it doesn't work, be prepared to be an outrageous mega geek to "insert code" to make things work. Shoddy, shoddy hackers. If they were actually GOOD at what they were doing, it would just work, oh like an Apple computer does. And as far as Psystar...they are NOT making hackintosh computers!! They know exactly what hardware they are working with, thats why they can get it to work! Sound familiar? APPLE DOES THE SAME THING.
mine works fine and was relatively easy to do
i suggest you research it than make "shoddy" remarks on a topic you have likely no experience in
If you spend about an hour doing research on compatible parts and procedures, anyone can do it. It is not that hard and I saved about $2000. It is faster and more reliable than my MBP in fact.
Boy, you sure have your panties in a tight-wad over this.
The reality is that mine works much better than any of my other Macs (and I've owned 7 or 8).
Really? I sure wish I could get AEBS disk sharing to work properly. Do you think you could get to work on that? And how about Quicktime and AC-3 passthrough - can you fix those problems as well? And while we're on QT, can you do something about its poor decoding of high-bitrate video? It's really sad that X Box Media Player is the best video software for the Mac.
You're an ignoramus. I installed Leopard with 1 disc, then ran two additional installers for drivers (sound, etc), and everything works. The hackers are very good, and have managed to put together very user-friendly packages to handle all this. You haven't had to fiddle with code for these things for a long time. Take your hate somewhere else.
I haven't read through this thread, so I don't know if it's already been covered, but if you want OS updates to work without waiting for hacked versions, install the Vanilla Kernel.
EDIT: don't follow this advice. See below
EDIT: don't follow this advice. See below