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The Merged Hackintosh Thread

What describes you?

  • No way would I build a hackintosh

    Votes: 349 23.0%

  • I'd consider it if Apple doesn't provide a new Mini or headless iMac in the next three months

    Votes: 185 12.2%

  • I'm considering it right now

    Votes: 578 38.2%

  • I already built one

    Votes: 403 26.6%
  • Total voters
    1,515
RHD said:
Really interested. By why do you run Parallels with XP? Why not Bootcamp into XP?
Cheers.
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The most obvious and logical answer is:

Why bother running one OS or the other when you can run them both at the same time with little to no performance hit?

Sometimes I wonder if people really know or understand just how cool it is running multiple OSes at the same time on the same machine. For us beta testers or just hardware and software enthusiasts, us tweakers extraordinaire, running ONE OS AT A TIME... that's... that's like a baby's toy, I swear. :D

Right now I've got 10.5.5 fully updated across the board running on a Celeron 430 with 2GB of RAM, XP Pro SP3 running in Coherence mode with Parallels 3, and I'm thinking about adding Ubuntu 8.10 beta just for kicks. All running at the same time, just because I can.

What other reason should anyone have? ;)

btw, I just finished this machine on Friday and posted the info about the process here:

https://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=6448918#post6448918

Even with the frustration of feeling "beaten" I never gave up and finally succeeded. No fun in just letting it go... and it's a hobby like any other I suppose. Why do people build cars that can go 200 MPH but legally can't be driven that fast on regular roads? Why do people climb mountains? Save stamps? Collect comics?

Because we can, that's why.
 
Is there any guide how to hackintosh a laptop? And is it possible to hackintosh this laptop: HP Pavilion DV7-1090ed ??
 
mladenz said:
Is there any guide how to hackintosh a laptop? And is it possible to hackintosh this laptop: HP Pavilion DV7-1090ed ??
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The main issue with any hackintosh: sleep mode.

The most important part of a mac laptop: the ability to sleep successfully.

This is the main reason I just ended up buying a macbook and using a hackintosh desktop.
 
nomar383 said:
The main issue with any hackintosh: sleep mode.

The most important part of a mac laptop: the ability to sleep successfully.

This is the main reason I just ended up buying a macbook and using a hackintosh desktop.
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Hmm, im in the boat for a Laptop, and i've been wanting the MBP for a long time, but it costs me 2000€ while the HP costs 1300€, so if i can hackintosh it, that would be awesome. I allready have my imac, so dont need a desktop:p
 
mladenz said:
Hmm, im in the boat for a Laptop, and i've been wanting the MBP for a long time, but it costs me 2000€ while the HP costs 1300€, so if i can hackintosh it, that would be awesome. I allready have my imac, so dont need a desktop:p
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If you are able to Hackintosh the HP lappie, then you will have to turn it off before you close the lid. Closing the lid puts it in Sleep mode, and to get it out of Sleep mode, you must restart it. So, you might as well shut it off first.
 
nomar383 said:
The main issue with any hackintosh: sleep mode.

The most important part of a mac laptop: the ability to sleep successfully.

This is the main reason I just ended up buying a macbook and using a hackintosh desktop.
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yes sleep is a pretty big issue.. and it needs to be addressed somehow.

how does the "deep sleep" go with all of the hackintoshes?? if that worked successfully i know id much rather do the equivalent of windows hibernate instead of restarting and shutting down everytime.
 
DoFoT9 said:
yes sleep is a pretty big issue.. and it needs to be addressed somehow.

how does the "deep sleep" go with all of the hackintoshes?? if that worked successfully i know id much rather do the equivalent of windows hibernate instead of restarting and shutting down everytime.
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The only problem I have with my Hackintosh is that when it would go into Sleep mode, upon waking, the Ethernet port is no longer recognized. To get back on the Internet, a restart is in order. Consequently, I have turned off Sleep mode. I do sleep my monitor when I am away from the computer for awhile.
 
maccompaq said:
The only problem I have with my Hackintosh is that when it would go into Sleep mode, upon waking, the Ethernet port is no longer recognized. To get back on the Internet, a restart is in order. Consequently, I have turned off Sleep mode. I do sleep my monitor when I am away from the computer for awhile.
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same here
 
Just a postscript, I have always turned off my computers every night so Sleep mode is not a big deal for me.
 
DoFoT9 said:
bootcamp wont work for me from parallels, maybe it wont work him either?
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Sorry, confused. (It doesn't take much).

You Bootcamp from OSX into XP or whatever via a restart.

You don't need Parallels at all.
Do you mean you've tried Bootcamping in OSX to a partitioned hard drive with XP on in on a Hackintosh and it doesn't work so you use parallels instead?

Thanks.
 
RHD said:
Sorry, confused. (It doesn't take much).

You Bootcamp from OSX into XP or whatever via a restart.

You don't need Parallels at all.
Do you mean you've tried Bootcamping in OSX to a partitioned hard drive with XP on in on a Hackintosh and it doesn't work so you use parallels instead?

Thanks.
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hahaha ok...


my hackintosh was origianlly a PC, running windows xp.

i installed OSX leopard (which i now use at my primary OS).

i installed parallels for stupid things like the ability to use certain programs for my uni assignments (they dont support macintosh).

i wondered if i could use parallels to "convert" the xp partition into being able to run on parallels, whilst still being able to run on normal xp when i wanted to restart (deactivating it was no problem id just ring them up and say that i replaced the mobo or something).

so yea it didnt end up working very well for me, when i booted parallels it just kinda stopped for a good 30mins at least so i just turned it off. vmware wouldnt even boot, saying there was some wierd "boot4" (something like that) error in the console.
 
Bootcamp is a BIOS emulator for the Mac firmware, its not for hackintoshes since PC's already have BIOS. You do a normal PC dual boot if you want to do that on a hackintosh. EasyBCD is the easiest way since its just a couple clicks to add OS X to your boot menu.
 
stainlessliquid said:
Bootcamp is a BIOS emulator for the Mac firmware, its not for hackintoshes since PC's already have BIOS. You do a normal PC dual boot if you want to do that on a hackintosh. EasyBCD is the easiest way since its just a couple clicks to add OS X to your boot menu.
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lol i dont think you understand.

1. i HAD my pc.. with just plain windows xp.. (boring).

2. i installed leopard onto it (yay).

3. i still want to use the windows partition, whilst inside leopard.. so i want to run parallels from it LIKE how a mac runs bootcamp. i did not open up the bootcamp program to install xp, im not a g00ber.

make any more sense haha>>??<<
 
stainlessliquid said:
Bootcamp is a BIOS emulator for the Mac firmware, its not for hackintoshes since PC's already have BIOS. You do a normal PC dual boot if you want to do that on a hackintosh. EasyBCD is the easiest way since its just a couple clicks to add OS X to your boot menu.
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Bootcamp is not a BIOS emulator. It's a graphical front end to the inbuilt OSX partitioning utility and a set of Windows drivers for the Mac hardware. Get your facts right.


DoFoT9: I don't know how well parallels will work with your XP partition. You can just try it with-in parallels to see if things work. Install parallels tools while you're in there before re-activating. You might get better support with VMWare, they have more experience with the whole virtualisation bit.
 
By the way, what ever happened to the story about Apple bricking the Psystar clones? Is that something I have to worry about if I build a Hackintosh?
 
riker1384 said:
By the way, what ever happened to the story about Apple bricking the Psystar clones? Is that something I have to worry about if I build a Hackintosh?
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I installed Leopard 10.5.2 on my Hackintosh, and I see no need to upgrade the OS. If there is no benefit, why upgrade? Others may have a need to upgrade, depending on their software, etc.
 
maccompaq said:
I installed Leopard 10.5.2 on my Hackintosh, and I see no need to upgrade the OS. If there is no benefit, why upgrade? Others may have a need to upgrade, depending on their software, etc.
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They offer new features, bug fixes, security fixes etc. I was hoping to intstall a retail version on mine so I could get the benefit of updates.

If I didn't upgrade the OS, would I still be able to update things like Itunes?
 
riker1384 said:
They offer new features, bug fixes, security fixes etc. I was hoping to intstall a retail version on mine so I could get the benefit of updates.

If I didn't upgrade the OS, would I still be able to update things like Itunes?
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That is something I cannot answer.

My experience with iTunes: on a Mac tower with Panther (10.3.9):
I accepted the Apple upgrade to iTunes even though I had never previously used it. After downloading it, both internal hard drives were hosed. I started the Mac using the Panther CD, went to Disk Utility to try to fix both hard drives. Neither hard drive showed up. I removed both hard drives and put them in my Hackintosh, reformatted them, and loaded Leopard on them. Fortunately, I had almost everything backed up to an external Firewire HD. I put a new HD in the older Mac and loaded Panther on it.

I later read an article in MacWorld that others have had that same problem after downloading iTunes. I am sure that we are in the minority.
 
I have a Sun Ultra M4 Workstation. I have before Windows 2008 & now Windows XP 64.

I wonder how feasible is put a hackintosh there. The procesors are AMD Opteron & the graphic card is a nvidia fx 1500.

I have a MacBook but wanna know the best route to do this.
 
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