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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
br0adband said:
...make no mistake, they stole the very concept of the GUI from Xerox PARC, period
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Make no mistake... xerox protected their patents and got paid for them (hansomely!). Apple brought the mouse input and desktop analogy to personal computing... many others have incorporated this to their OS since. None of this is relevant to the debate here.

Having said all of this... the commentary on this thread is the best debate I have seen on MR for a while:)
 
br0adband said:
After I got involved in the OSx86 project back in 2005, I left it (those damned Apple Legal bastards, I swear) for about a year roughly then got re-involved just around the time I bought a few real Macs. In a 2 month span of time I bought a black Macbook (defective, returned it a few days later), then upgraded to a 15" Macbook Pro (defective, returned it a week later), and then traded up again to not one but two 20" iMacs - one for myself, one for my Wife.

Returned my iMac about 3 weeks later, defective, bad optical drive wouldn't burn CD media at all, kernel panics galore at any random time, sound output had noise/static in it, 3 dead pixels from the factory. Returned the Wife's iMac 2 weeks after that, defective, bad optical drive, overheated, random reboots, wouldn't play retail DVDs correctly but would play my burned backups, go figure, 2 dead pixels from the factory.

Now, not everyone has these issues, and some people could blame all that on them all being "new" items (the Macbook was 1st generation, so was the Macbook Pro, both had the thermal paste gooped on the CPU core, idiots), but then the two iMacs exhibiting similar issues with defective optical drives? Has Apple not learned anything over the years and realized "Hey, maybe we need to go back to Pioneer and stop using these craptastic Mitsumis..."

I guess not.

My point here is that for the Hackintoshes that I've built myself, each and every one of them was more stable, more reliable, and more useful to me in the periods of time I had them running OSx86 than the real Macintosh computers I bought in an Apple Store and got reamed on the return fees by - but I got the fees back in the long run.

Charging me for returning a defective piece of hardware. Shame on you, Steve, shame on you.
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Wow this is really bad luck! I guess there is always someone who is going to be this unlucky and I am really sorry that it was you **no sarcasm**

I would suspect that if apple were aware of this bad luck they will be getting prepared to fall over themselves to make sure that you get reliable harware in the future. They treated me like an absolute king when I got two dodgely blackbooks in a row including several courtesy calls and £100 of vouchers.
 
Hackintosh ?

:mad: I have a major problem with thieves. Pirating of any kind is stealing.

:D Hobbyists/DIY'ers making Hackintoshes is in a completely different class altogether.
And it is really cool :cool: to see if you can do it, as long as you own (bought, paid for) the operating system. :apple:

Otherwise :eek: :mad: STOP ! THIEF ! STOP ! THIEF ! THIEF !
 
duck69 said:
:mad: I have a major problem with thieves. Pirating of any kind is stealing.

:D Hobbyists/DIY'ers making Hackintoshes is in a completely different class altogether.
And it is really cool :cool: to see if you can do it, as long as you own (bought, paid for) the operating system. :apple:

Otherwise :eek: :mad: STOP ! THIEF ! STOP ! THIEF ! THIEF !
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There is a difference between pirating and the numerous other kinds of license violations. They are VERY different. In one case, you are stealing a copy of software that you don't own. In most other cases, you own the software (the right to use one or more copies), and have chosen to use them outside the listed boundaries.

Let's be careful not to water-down the concept of pirating with things that are not pirating.
 
I'd build a hackintosh for the fun of it. right now I think all the components on my pc are compatible, I just want to ensure I know how to do it so I can triple boot without damaging anything.
 
Can I add another category for those who would not buy or build a Hackintosh because they don't want the problems, but yet still have no problems with other people who do want to own hackintosh, and think all power to them. It always makes me laugh at how outraged that people get about other people owning hckintoshes as though they were cheating on apple or something.
 
If Apple comes up with a sub $ 1000.00 desktop (not an all-in-one) they'll have a new customer - or if they would rather save me a few hundred $ that works to :rolleyes:
 
If I had more time (to deal with the inevitable problems) I'd would have just built a Hackintosh, but I don't (3 young kids) so I just broke down and got an iMac.

You definitely need a poll option along the lines of I like the idea but don't want to deal.
 
I'm waiting for the Nehalem Mac Pros. I dislike building PCs and a Hackintosh, with all the extra effort to make it work, appeals to me even less. :p
 
I've alread got one - I'm an IT manager and I just love tinkering with things - I have about 8 different OS's running at any one time :D

I haven't got an actual Mac at the moment - I don't really want an iMac, the mac mini spec isn't good enough for me and the Mac Pro is out of my budget. I'm thinking mac book is the way to go for me now.
 
PNW said:
If I had more time (to deal with the inevitable problems) [....]

You definitely need a poll option along the lines of I like the idea but don't want to deal.
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something like: I like the idea but prefer the comfort of denial and spreading FUD.
 
I might of if I had more technical know-how. Its just that you need specific parts for a stable system a bit like windows then.

Would hate to do all the research, buy the parts and put it together and then arrghh find it does not work as well as I wanted it to and end up with just a windows PC :eek:
 
I love my Mack Pro (Hackintosh). It is the best Mac I have ever owned.

Core2Quad 2.67GHz
Asus P5k-e wifi
GeForce 8800GT
4GB ram
 
A company called EFiX evidently wants to make installing Leopard on Hackintoshes as simple as booting from a USB stick come the 23rd, though you'll need to buy it via a foreign reseller since they do not intend to offer it for sale in the US.
 
i'm a bit up in the air about hackintoshes. right now i have no desire to build one, but thats not to say that in the future i wouldn't. but probably couldn't be bothered to.
 
I'm kind of surprised that more than half of respondents are at least considering it. I suspected it would have been around 25%. But then again, there could be substantial sample bias in such polls. If it gets 400 or more responses, then I think it'll be a fairly accurate representation.
 
When I'm building my own 'nix box with compatible parts I'll probably add an OS X partition, but I wouldn't rely on it for work or anything important.
 
I prefer the very attractive, well designed Apple computer :D The experience of opening an Apple retail box, and smell the Apple computer smell is great! :p
I also wouldn't be capable of building a hackintoch I think, without alot if study..
 
I would never build a hackintosh. I have built many pc's in the past. Im very capable of doing it. However, after all the problems with different pc components over the years and microsux inability to find the hardware has really left a sour taste in my mouth.

I wish Apple would shut down hackintoshs...Why? Because its a virus doomed to destroy a Decent OS. The reason why OS X is so stable, is because of the limited hardware Apple uses. If you open up the hardware to all the third party companies, then OSX then becomes Winblows, and is unstable as crap! Im not interested in that scenario.

If you dont Like what Apple has to offer, go to their competition. Microsux...Im sure you will be happy there!
 
I used to build many PCs, from about 5 to 15 years ago, but eventually I got tired of it. My DIY energy has focused on home improvement the last few years, so I'd rather just buy a computer that turns on and works well out of the box now. Of course in another 5-10 years, I'll probably be sick of working on the house, and start hiring handyman services for stuff I know I could do but can't be bothered for anymore... :rolleyes:

Aside from diminished enthusiasm about building a computer (and one that would have to meet very exact specs to be a successful hackintosh), I also have another strong reason to wait for an updated mini: I want several of the mini's features that are more difficult to do well in a build-your-own PC.
  • Small footprint
  • Quiet
  • Power savings
I plan to buy a Mac mini for use as a home server and replacing two old, slow, power guzzling machines which are currently very loud with all their fans. The mini will be so perfect for this, if Apple will just freaking update it already! :mad::rolleyes:
 
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