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The Merged Hackintosh Thread
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WTFok see the edit.
ok so looking at them in real ("real") life the 300 looks like a hunk of junk... i change my mind haha!
300 has that pimp 'Mac Pro' look about it but is a bit cheap inside? but the Solo might be better for me you think?
yea it doesnt look as good either, too square, to ugly, too blah!!! the solo seems a good option now. will be nice and quiet yet still functional.
ok question, the Q8200 is a newer CPU isnt it? howcome the older Q6600 is better then the newer one? (apart from the multiplyer) - ill have to look up a few comparision charts..
I love my 300. No louder than my imac was with the fans turned up in smcFanControl. Couldn't stand to know my graphics chip was idling at 65 C
good to know! i dunno yet, just need to decide.
but if it sounds like an iMac with the fans turned up it may not meet my needs as im looking at a quiet build and my house is pretty quiet. no offense! the 300 is a very good case it definitely attracted my attention!
hahaha well it must be true then
two vs none. easy decision for me.. now to find it.. wonder if MSY has them
Well, the Q6600 has twice the L2 cache and supports virtualization technology. I'm sure there are others, but it seems as if the Q6600 can be OC'd more than the Q8200. I have a Q6600 in my desktop hackintosh and it's quite a heat generator. I have a Q8200 in my home theater hackintosh and it's not OC'd because I want to minimize heat.
core i7 build
I've starting buying parts for my new core i7 "mac." anyone else going this route on these forums? I'd like to chat with someone who is, compare ideas for hardware, etc. Core i7 seems like the smartest route in my opinion.
I've starting buying parts for my new core i7 "mac." anyone else going this route on these forums? I'd like to chat with someone who is, compare ideas for hardware, etc. Core i7 seems like the smartest route in my opinion.
I'm switching as soon as there are compatible parts for me to choose from.
Yea, it's hard to know what will work. There are quite a few people who have built i7's already, but I am looking for a painless install with everything as compatible as possible. I have already bought an old pny geforce 7300 (same as old mac pro) in hopes that this will make the install straightforward.
Hmm... guess I'll post this here. This is a two part question...
Background: I successfully installed 10.5.6 on an EeePC 1000 using iPC 10.5.6, almost everything works: ethernet, audio, wlan (kind of ugly though), brightness, sleep/hibernate, etc. except for the built-in camera (although in one of my installation tries, it did work). And the battery meter is a little dodgy, it shows like 150% of charge and takes forever to calculate how much time on the battery is left. Both of those, I can live with.
First Question
What can I do reduce the installation footprint of OS X? More specifically, I'm trying to install Xcode, but I've run out of space. I've deleted all printer drivers and removed all (except English) languages using Monolingual. I'm now sitting at about 2.3GB of space after also removing some programs I know that I won't use. Is there anything else that I can safely remove?
Yes, I know that I could install OS X to the larger 32gb drive, but I tried it once and it was about twice as slow as installing to the smaller 8gb SSD... I would get beachballs almost every time I tried to start a program.
I am likely going to have to upgrade the 8gb SSD... which leads me to my second question.
Second Question
I've only found a forum post or two about this...
http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?id=65215
Has anyone else undertaken an upgrade like this? and how easy/hard was it? Also, from that post (or a similar one I think) it seems like the half-miniPCI drives are only compatible with the Mini9... but a miniPCI drive will work. I'm understanding that correctly, right?
Thanks, sorry for the long post.
Background: I successfully installed 10.5.6 on an EeePC 1000 using iPC 10.5.6, almost everything works: ethernet, audio, wlan (kind of ugly though), brightness, sleep/hibernate, etc. except for the built-in camera (although in one of my installation tries, it did work). And the battery meter is a little dodgy, it shows like 150% of charge and takes forever to calculate how much time on the battery is left. Both of those, I can live with.
First Question
What can I do reduce the installation footprint of OS X? More specifically, I'm trying to install Xcode, but I've run out of space. I've deleted all printer drivers and removed all (except English) languages using Monolingual. I'm now sitting at about 2.3GB of space after also removing some programs I know that I won't use. Is there anything else that I can safely remove?
Yes, I know that I could install OS X to the larger 32gb drive, but I tried it once and it was about twice as slow as installing to the smaller 8gb SSD... I would get beachballs almost every time I tried to start a program.
I am likely going to have to upgrade the 8gb SSD... which leads me to my second question.
Second Question
I've only found a forum post or two about this...
http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?id=65215
Has anyone else undertaken an upgrade like this? and how easy/hard was it? Also, from that post (or a similar one I think) it seems like the half-miniPCI drives are only compatible with the Mini9... but a miniPCI drive will work. I'm understanding that correctly, right?
Thanks, sorry for the long post.
I like OS X even with all the problems I've had with my first Mac. I'm thinking of getting a MSI Wind or Dell Mini 9 and putting OS X on it. I need a new portable before I take my vacation in September and since portable is key, not power and I will use it for the holiday and maybe once a week for 2 hours for my traineeship, I really don't see a need to spend $1600 on Macbook.
And really I don't see what the problem is with putting OS X on a netbook, I mean I'm going to buy a copy of OS X for $160, that's probably more than Apple would make off a netbook if they made it themselves.
And really I don't see what the problem is with putting OS X on a netbook, I mean I'm going to buy a copy of OS X for $160, that's probably more than Apple would make off a netbook if they made it themselves.
I know if you can hold out till Snow Leopard comes out it will have a much smaller footprint, Ironically the same is true of Windows 7
.Installing OS X on my EeePC 1000 was pretty easy... and it's pretty snappy as well.
Unscientifically, I counted from the bootloader screen to when the first login app (Ralink wireless utility app) fully loaded and it took about 35 seconds or so.
EDIT: I used iPC as a proof-of-concept to make sure I could get most everything to work. Now that that's done, I'm placing an order with the campus store for a copy of OS X.
To get OS X working on my Eee PC. I found out in my research that retail Leopard DVDs will work with a third-party bootloader on the Eee. So now that I have everything working with the iPC install, I'm going to get the retail DVD so I can have OS X (semi)legitimately.
EDIT: iPC is a hacked distribution of OS X, like iAtkos and iDeneb, etc.
Whoops. Sorry, I'm an idiot. For some reason I thought it was magical software that scanned your computer and told you how well it would work with OS X.
I knew that.
No biggie... I've had my share of brain farts.Whoops. Sorry, I'm an idiot. For some reason I thought it was magical software that scanned your computer and told you how well it would work with OS X.
I knew that.