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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
Mac7 said:
CaveMan's build seems nice, but did it run good? was it a pain to install osx on it?
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As far as hackintoshes go, it's pretty easy. The Asus board has the 9300 chipset, which is effectively the same as the 9400 chipset used in all the current Macs (except Mac Pro). The only differences are no on-board wifi or Bluetooth and you can only run one display from it (up to 1920x1200). But otherwise, all else works.
 
You can build for a lot less than Cave Man's if you just want a simple machine.

Case/PSU: http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboDealDetails.aspx?ItemList=Combo.215892
500gb WD HDD:http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136040
GA-EP45T-UD3LR:http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128371
4gb Crucial DDR3:http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820148227
LG dvd burnerhttp://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827136167
E7600 (3.06ghz core2)http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115059
eVGA 9400gthttp://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130471

Total is $566.84 + shipping - $15 Mail-in-rebate

According to the Wiki all those parts will work. Should be plenty fast enough for you, and you have quite a bit left over in your budget. You could go with a high-end core2quad and a gtx275 for $1k. At the moment im using a E6750 with 4gb DDR2 and an 8600gt and it runs Leo nice and quick for web browsing a photoshop, so the E7600 and 9400gt (though slightly slower than the 8600gt) should be just what you need.
 
How well does OSX run on Netbooks?

I'm thinking of getting a mini 9 or mini 10v as my hardware needs have changed.

My main PC is running nicely with OSX, and I feel comfortable enough to replace my MacBook with a netbook. All I do on the MacBook now is:

-Web
-iChat Video
-Email
-Documents and Spreadsheets
-Media (all stored on the main PC though)
-Network Troubleshooting through Terminal

With this in mind, and the fact that my sister needs a better laptop than the dying iBook that she has, I'm thinking that for my mobile computing, I could change to a Netbook.

If I can get a Mini 9, 10v or maybe an Acer Aspire One, or Lenovo S10, I would be able to install OSX on there with a 16GB SSD and 2GB RAM.

Would those needs be catered for by a Netbook?
 
steviem said:
How well does OSX run on Netbooks?

I'm thinking of getting a mini 9 or mini 10v as my hardware needs have changed.

My main PC is running nicely with OSX, and I feel comfortable enough to replace my MacBook with a netbook. All I do on the MacBook now is:

-Web
-iChat Video
-Email
-Documents and Spreadsheets
-Media (all stored on the main PC though)
-Network Troubleshooting through Terminal

With this in mind, and the fact that my sister needs a better laptop than the dying iBook that she has, I'm thinking that for my mobile computing, I could change to a Netbook.

If I can get a Mini 9, 10v or maybe an Acer Aspire One, or Lenovo S10, I would be able to install OSX on there with a 16GB SSD and 2GB RAM.

Would those needs be catered for by a Netbook?
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i have a dell mini 10v, runs OS X very nicely.

160GB HD too.
 
steviem said:
If I can get a Mini 9, 10v or maybe an Acer Aspire One, or Lenovo S10, I would be able to install OSX on there with a 16GB SSD and 2GB RAM.

Would those needs be catered for by a Netbook?
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OSX can be brought down to about a 4GB->7GB install (not exactly sure), that would leave you with around 7GB->10GB left (after formatting etc), if that sufficient enough for you?? i know it wouldnt be for me!
 
Yeah, this is what I am wondering.

I won't be storing anything on there, but may find out about 32GB or 64GB SSDs instead to give a little extra space.

The most space being used would be for a couple of movies, some music and a few TV Shows and I could just use a big SD Card for those anyway...

I'd rather not have an HDD in there just to minimize moving parts.
 
steviem said:
Yeah, this is what I am wondering.

I won't be storing anything on there, but may find out about 32GB or 64GB SSDs instead to give a little extra space.

The most space being used would be for a couple of movies, some music and a few TV Shows and I could just use a big SD Card for those anyway...

I'd rather not have an HDD in there just to minimize moving parts.
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that should be ok then, if your not going to be needing much space on it then 16GB should be enough.. 8GB SD cards are not expensive, so maybe you could purchase a few of those for movie storage etc..
 
SMOKING

do you know if hackintoshes can be turned into render farms?
or if you can cluster them?

are there any boards that support 8 cores like apple's octo does?

and are there raid cards that are supported? or are there onboard MOBO raids?
 
this is for film with Final Cut.
I have to say I am happy with OS X and the software Apple produces.

and what about RAID?
what's the scoop with that?
 
I edit in PS, motion, FCP and anything that involves film.
SO, a fast render disc is one part.
The other is a set up that makes sure my info is packed away safe. BUT, as of late, I have just been packing all my stuff to a drive then shutting it off.

So hardware or software is fine, but I understand that hardware is better.
Do you know of any supported RAID cards that have kexts
 
matteusclement said:
So hardware or software is fine, but I understand that hardware is better.
Do you know of any supported RAID cards that have kexts
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i have no personal experience, but in this thread a poster reveals that he has had no troubles with the Highpoint RocketRAID 3520 in RAID5.

software RAID is supported out of the box as OSX can do it, a lot of RAID cards come with OSX drivers - if that is the case then they will most likely work with a hackintosh (as there are virtually no differences apart from EFI/BIOS).

do you have a price point/budget at all?
 
RAID 0 stripes the drives together but has NO parity, so if a drive fails, the RAID partition will fail, You will get all of the capacity of the disks put together.

RAID 5 does a similar thing, but has parity across the drives. This means that if a drive fails, once you replace it, you can rebuild the RAID partition.
 
steviem said:
RAID 0 stripes the drives together but has NO parity, so if a drive fails, the RAID partition will fail, You will get all of the capacity of the disks put together.

RAID 5 does a similar thing, but has parity across the drives. This means that if a drive fails, once you replace it, you can rebuild the RAID partition.
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nice explanation, also needed to know:: if two drives fail in the RAID5 then all your data is lost :)
 
I'm considering turning my PC into a Hackintosh and have looked at the OSx86 project website to check compatibility but for my motherboard (Gigabyte P35-DS3P), it doesn't tell me what install DVD to use.

Has anyone used this board and knows which installer I should look for?

Thanks
 
steviem said:
RAID 5 does a similar thing, but has parity across the drives. This means that if a drive fails, once you replace it, you can rebuild the RAID partition.
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Not only is the data still there, the array is still usable, though it's running in a degraded state (slow, as it's having to read and reconstruct the data from the parity blocks). Best to get the new drive in, and proceed with the rebuild ASAP though, as the additional strain can kill another drive (assuming they're weak).
 
MacFanUK said:
I'm considering turning my PC into a Hackintosh and have looked at the OSx86 project website to check compatibility but for my motherboard (Gigabyte P35-DS3P), it doesn't tell me what install DVD to use.

Has anyone used this board and knows which installer I should look for?
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I do not have the same board as you but one of the P35 Boot132 CD's here should get you started. After the CD is booted you swap in your retail copy of OSX ...

Here is a installation guide for your board.
Edit:
I used this guide when i installed OSX on my P35-DS4 i think the Gigabyte P35 boards have mostly the same components, so it could work on your board too.
 
Donar said:
I do not have the same board as you but one of the P35 Boot132 CD's here should get you started. After the CD is booted you swap in your retail copy of OSX ...

Here is a installation guide for your board.
Edit:
I used this guide when i installed OSX on my P35-DS4 i think the Gigabyte P35 boards have mostly the same components, so it could work on your board too.
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Thanks, I'll give it a read :)
 
Just out of interest: would it be more beneficial to have a quad core 2.4GHz CPU running at 3GHz (Intel Q6600) or a Dual core 2.5GHz CPU running at 3.4GHz (Intel E5200)?

I'll be using the system for Web Development.
 
MacFanUK said:
I'm considering turning my PC into a Hackintosh and have looked at the OSx86 project website to check compatibility but for my motherboard (Gigabyte P35-DS3P), it doesn't tell me what install DVD to use.

Has anyone used this board and knows which installer I should look for?

Thanks
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I have a p35-ds3l and i have used Kalyway and iPC to much success. Im considering a retail install using boot-132, but hacked discs are so much easier to install, just more difficult to maintain.
 
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