The Merged Hackintosh Thread

[ease718]

So you can still dual boot Windows via bootcamp on these machines?

yes

i just use f12 at startup to select a hd though.

 

[ease718]

Didn't the board come out well under six months ago?

i have a rev1 board that is indeed over six months old.

most common boards are gigabyte p35-D3xx and D4xx also asus p35 boards.
intel and abit also work well.

its nice to know that when 8cores on a chip is affordable and here, i can upgrade myself esp if see what others have done on the forums. i can also check and see what hd works best which sata dvd drive works well etc.

 

[dukebound85]

So you can still dual boot Windows via bootcamp on these machines?

i am tribooting leopard, xp and vista at the moment


not with bootcamp though

 

[ease718]

Actually I QUAD boot my system, XP, Vista, Suse 10.3 and Leopard.

thats hot. how do like suse, thats my next empty HD project.

for all stuff except games (some surprisingly work ok still) i just use parallels if i need xp.

also i just have xp no vista, am i missing anything ?

 

[Brutus Rex]

fastest hackintosh?

ease, what is the fastest (geekbench) hackintosh system you have seen? what were the components?

 

[trip1ex]

it is actually the most reliable mac i have used. i know this sounds crazy but it is true. i didnt just build it last week, i've had it for well over six months on 24/7, it is just very stable.

Leopard came out not quite 6 months ago.

You were hacking Tiger too?

Come on. You just loaded Leopard on it the last few days and that's why you just posted.

 

[noi375]

Leopard came out not quite 6 months ago.

You were hacking Tiger too?

Come on. You just loaded Leopard on it the last few days and that's why you just posted.

OP never explicitly said he was using Leopard (sort of implied, for sure) - I was messing around with the hackintosh Tiger for a bit before deciding to spring for a Mac Pro (boot to Windows most of the time because I played games like Lotro and EQ2).

I gave it up because it was more headache then it's worth, unless you like to mess around with the stuff - kind of like some people that like to mess around with their cars.

 

[waremaster]

thats hot. how do like suse, thats my next empty HD project.

for all stuff except games (some surprisingly work ok still) i just use parallels if i need xp.

also i just have xp no vista, am i missing anything ?

I find Suse 10.3 to be a very polished OS hardware support is outstanding and package management is great. The other OS I play around with is Ubuntu which is also an awesome OS and 8.04 is looking to be a winner.

 

[ease718]

Leopard came out not quite 6 months ago.

You were hacking Tiger too?

Come on. You just loaded Leopard on it the last few days and that's why you just posted.

initially i used the xXx tiger release.

then brazilmac leo, then TOH leo, now Kalyway.

i first used EFI v3 or v4. now with the Kalyway installer, which installs EFI v8.

Thanks to netkas for hacking EFI things have got a lot easier.

I just installed other peoples hacks, i didnt 'hack' any code myself lol.

i have uploaded a screengrab from of the 'about this mac' window. that was grabbed in mid nov. i'm not about to post my receipts lol. you can also find me on other boards posting about my hack from last year.


re the quickest hacks i've heard about. Some guy built a 8 processor machine . for the money its hard to beat a well cooled core2quad. and core2 chip that is suitably oc'ed should be great for osx.

 

[kittiyut]

You can't call it a mac. It just runs OS X against the EULA. Why would you post that here? Are you looking to get flamed?

Why flame?? Are you jealous that he can do it? I think this is VERY COOL !!!
This is the kind of posts that is VERY INTERESTING.

Kudos to the OP

 

[JollyRogers]

I run one also since Jan08. In fact it is what got me "into" purchasing my Mac Pro AND convincing my boss to let me get a MacBook.

If I had not tried it I probably woudn't have bought one as my last experience with Apple was a Performa something in the early-mid 90's and OS9 I think.
I wanted to try OS X, but not buy a low end mac mini. So I tried the Hack route on my existing PC and let me tell you it wasn't easy on an nforce chipset motherboard (680i). Regardless, it runs well and I triple boot Vista64, OSX 10.5.2, and Ubuntu Gutsy 64 via the grub boot loader. I am not using EFI on mine though. Updates are interesting sometimes, and getting a kernel that works on my hardware is not to hard. Currently this kids are using that box, but I see them using Vista a LOT!

I am thinking about grabbing a P35 or such intel chipset motherboard and pulling that hard drive just to run OSX on a separate machine. All I need is a CPU/MB as I have everything else.

 

[teohyc]

I tried building one before.

My sound card/graphics card didn't work properly.

It's fun to try.

I'm now a Mac Pro owner though

 

[ease718]

I tried building one before.

My sound card/graphics card didn't work properly.

It's fun to try.

I'm now a Mac Pro owner though

its getting much easier as time goes on. good that you had fun. its not so hard and really enjoyable.

I'm sure apple sells a lot of mac pros and macs of all types through people that come to know osx through a positive experience with either installing it where possible on their existing windows based hardware or building a cheap hackintosh. many of those people will go to become hardware customers. i'm sure this point isnt moot to apple.

 

[statikcat]

I tried building one before.

My sound card/graphics card didn't work properly.

It's fun to try.

I'm now a Mac Pro owner though

Same here - when I installed some Nvidia driver thing it bombed my comp on boot. I have an older Nvidia FX card in my PC though. I may be willing to try again with some research. I just use that machine to play videos to my TV - but I would prefer OSx on it if possible.

 

[Infrared]

Actually I QUAD boot my system, XP, Vista, Suse 10.3 and Leopard.

Any advance on quad, then?

And.. what *do* you call it when you multiboot
5 different OSes?

 

[tom.]

Any advance on quad, then?

And.. what *do* you call it when you multiboot
5 different OSes?

I think you call it 'overkill'

 

[macsrules]

This guy walks you through building one with screen shots

1. http://macapper.com/2008/01/19/diy-hackintosh-tutorial-build-a-mac-pro-for-cheap/

 

[tom.]

This guy walks you through building one with screen shots

1. http://macapper.com/2008/01/19/diy-hackintosh-tutorial-build-a-mac-pro-for-cheap/

hehe, i think you mean photographs? Been using your computer too much!

 

[Infrared]

I think you call it 'overkill'

Heh

 

[Consultant]

I thought all hackintosh have issues with sleep?

 

[macsrules]

tom,

you are right I have been on this computer too much.

 

[tom.]

I found it funny because i did exactly the same thing, out loud the other day. Somewhat worrying!

 

[Firefly2002]

I'm almost tempted to build one of these in an old PowerMac 9600 or Sawtooth case. That would be neat. Hm.

 

[ease718]

i would love to build one in an old apple case.

the alum cases are pretty expensive.

i have seen some compact 'shuttle' cases that are cool

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16856101039
case mb + ati3100 $224

just add a core 2 quad for 239,
or a dual core for $80, 2 gb ram for 50 and a $50 hard drive ie roughly $400 .

shuttles have great reviews, compact size, very quiet.

 

[cherry su]

This QWNS (better than PWN) the lame Psystar failure.