What is a "hackentosh"?

here you go

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSx86

 

Its spelled "Hackintosh" and is a non-Apple PC that is hacked to be able to run Mac OS X.

 

No they are not considered hackintoshes

Were you by chance watching the disney channel to see those pear computers?

 

It has nothing to do with a pear logo, maybe that is custom made, but nothing more. You use normal PCs from Dell or HP or Acer or ... to hack them and install Mac OS X on them.

 

Actually its spelled, Hackint0sh.

 

Now that I've checked, I've seen it both ways. The "0" is for the scene I guess.

 

This.

My sister was watching a show called Zoey101, I think thats the name, and when I was reading this, I looked at the Tv and there was the pear! In the show, the just use regular macbooks, with some sticker type thing covering the front.

Now that I think of it, alot of shows use covered up macs...

 

I have one on my Dell Inspiron 1525
but getting a real mac soon

 

I don't believe it was walt who glamorized pear computing. That was always Nickelodeons territory, i.e. Zoey101 but especially iCarly:




always sort of seemed like an inside joke reference to the "dev team" with their pineapple.

 

You know I was at a kids party over the weekend and saw this, I also noticed the one guy had a "PearPad" Which was a 3 foot ipad with a glowing pear on the back. I thought that was pretty funny.

 

It's a PC with a Hacked Version of OSX Installed, However, It's nothing like a Mac... Starting with the world "Reliability"

 

It's actually worse than having a PC with 7.

 

actually no. my hackintosh is just as reliable as my macbook

 

I have real facts, i have a Core i7-920 System, It was pretty unreliable, just to get it working i had to install it 3 times and some minimal changes stopped it from working at all, I guess that if you are the kind of person that understands how all of that works it will work well for you, but 90% of the Mac buyers pay the premium for the Premium hardware and support

 

I have 2 hackintoshs in my house, both of which are rock solid. If you are smart enough to buy hardware that is known to work it will be a breeze, but you cant expect to pull anything off the shelf and have it work.

 

Well there you go then!

So basically no laptop on the planet is capable of being a Hackb00k

 

A good deal of netbooks work great though. I recently picked up a Dell Vostro A90 (corporate version of the Dell Mini 9) and it works flawlessly, just had to install a microphone driver to get that working so I could video chat, everything else worked perfectly straight away. And the install was honestly easier than any linux install I've ever done. It makes for an excellent portable Mac as it is so light and small. Been using it for a while as my travel laptop, and has been as solid as any full blooded Mac I've owned.

 

I did it for a while on my 17" HP Pavilion (Dual booted W7 and Leopard). It worked like 95%, my built-in camera and wireless didn't work; I solved the wireless problem by buying a $9.99 USB wireless N dongle. Other than that (and, of course, it didn't have the MBP's awesome trackpad) it worked as well as a Mac.

 

Is a hackintosh good enough for joe user? Absolutely not, since there are are few people who would be able to support such a setup.

Can it run well ? Absolutely. Grab any gigabyte board and a decent (supported) video card and you'll be up in no time. As long as you don't modify the kernel and install it straight from the CD, then there's no reason for it to go awry.

btw I don't have a mac pro anywhere in my house