hackintosh

sucks2beme
sucks2beme Posts: 5,601
edited October 2010 in The Clubhouse
Anyone here with build experience with one?
"The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg." --Thomas Jefferson
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  • Cpyder
    Cpyder Posts: 514
    edited October 2010
    I built my own comp and tried to dual boot 7 with Snow Leopard, but gave up after a bit. It takes a lot of work and I had problems getting OSX installed, which you have to already have installed to install Snow Leopard.
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  • sucks2beme
    sucks2beme Posts: 5,601
    edited October 2010
    I've got a boot iso for my dell d620. No dual boot crap.
    Boot up with the burned iso, and then swith over to the
    10.6 install dvd and go for it.
    It's supposed to work pretty well with this set up and the dell.
    I've got a spare drive and for $29 for the OS, I thought I'd
    give it a whirl. Windows 7 pisses me off, and so does the MAC
    overpriced hardware.
    "The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg." --Thomas Jefferson
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  • Cpyder
    Cpyder Posts: 514
    edited October 2010
    I'd say give it a go. However, I'm not sure if you can get updates for the OS. The OS might know it's not installed on official Mac hardware when it goes to update. But you may not care about this - I probably wouldn't.

    I'm running 7 right now because I got it for free through my university. I hated Vista, but they did seem to fix most of the problems when they released 7; so if you're basing your opinion of 7 on your dislike of Vista, you may want to check out 7 thoroughly: it impressed me.

    As far as installing the Mac OS, I had problems with booting the iso. It would hang quite often and I even tried separate releases, until it became too much of a hassle and I gave up.
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  • bigaudiofanatic
    bigaudiofanatic Posts: 4,415
    edited October 2010
    Was going to do this on a netbook but decided to just go get another mac and I love it with the multi taks touch pad and everything else. I may be in college for computers but I love my mac. Vista left a bad taste in my mouth than Microsoft had the audacity to charge you another 350 to upgrade to a new OS 5 months later, and on top of that make people upgrade to new computer with xp support stopping. Ya still mad about all that.
    HT setup
    Panasonic 50" TH-50PZ80U
    Denon DBP-1610
    Monster HTS 1650
    Carver A400X :cool:
    MIT Exp 3 Speaker Wire
    Kef 104/2
    URC MX-780 Remote
    Sonos Play 1

    Living Room
    63 inch Samsung PN63C800YF
    Polk Surroundbar 3000
    Samsung BD-C7900
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  • Knucklehead
    Knucklehead Posts: 3,602
    edited October 2010
    Just run Linux and be done with it. :)
    Polk Audio Surround Bar 360
    Mirage PS-12
    LG BDP-550
    Motorola HD FIOS DVR
    Panasonic 42" Plasma
    XBOX 360[/SIZE]

    Office stuff

    Allied 395 receiver
    Pioneer CDP PD-M430
    RT8t's & Wharfedale Diamond II's[/SIZE]

    Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music. ~Ronald Reagan
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  • sucks2beme
    sucks2beme Posts: 5,601
    edited October 2010
    It's alive! I've got it running on a spare dell laptop.
    Not to bad so far. Straight X os only no dual boot.
    "The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg." --Thomas Jefferson
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  • WilliamM2
    WilliamM2 Posts: 4,773
    edited October 2010
    bigaudiofanatic wrote: »
    Was going to do this on a netbook but decided to just go get another mac and I love it with the multi taks touch pad and everything else. I may be in college for computers but I love my mac. Vista left a bad taste in my mouth than Microsoft had the audacity to charge you another 350 to upgrade to a new OS 5 months later, and on top of that make people upgrade to new computer with xp support stopping. Ya still mad about all that.

    Who's forcing you to upgrade? And why would you pay $350?

    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16832116754

    Or get a three pack:

    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16832116775
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  • messiah
    messiah Posts: 1,790
    edited October 2010
    Just curious, why hackintosh?
    "They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."
    Benjamin Franklin, February 17th, 1775.

    "The day that I have to give up my constitutional rights AND let some dude rub my junk...well, let's just say that it's gonna be a real bad day for the dude trying to rub my junk!!"
    messiah, November 23rd, 2010
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  • bigaudiofanatic
    bigaudiofanatic Posts: 4,415
    edited October 2010
    Mac OS is the best IMO lol. Linus is nice as well but not much support plus mac is a bit more friendly than linux.
    HT setup
    Panasonic 50" TH-50PZ80U
    Denon DBP-1610
    Monster HTS 1650
    Carver A400X :cool:
    MIT Exp 3 Speaker Wire
    Kef 104/2
    URC MX-780 Remote
    Sonos Play 1

    Living Room
    63 inch Samsung PN63C800YF
    Polk Surroundbar 3000
    Samsung BD-C7900
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  • jmwest1970
    jmwest1970 Posts: 846
    edited October 2010
    I have a Optiplex GX620 running OSX 10.5.6 and love it. I use it to host media for my Squeezebox and XBMC. I'd love to install it on my laptop, but there's no support for my wireless card and I don't feel like cracking the case to replace the card.
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  • nguyendot
    nguyendot Posts: 3,594
    edited October 2010
    I'm going to try an install tonight. Think it'll run on my Inspiron 6000? I don't know the requirements offhand for OSX nowadays. I had a hackintosh long ago but that was on the last version of OSX....
    Main Surround -
    Epson 8350 Projector/ Elite Screens 120" / Pioneer Elite SC-35 / Sunfire Signature / Focal Chorus 716s / Focal Chorus CC / Polk MC80 / Polk PSW150 sub

    Bedroom - Sharp Aquos 70" 650 / Pioneer SC-1222k / Polk RT-55 / Polk CS-250

    Den - Rotel RSP-1068 / Threshold CAS-2 / Boston VR-M60 / BDP-05FD
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  • AsSiMiLaTeD
    AsSiMiLaTeD Posts: 11,726
    edited October 2010
    bigaudiofanatic wrote: »
    Mac OS is the best IMO lol.
    How?
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  • bigaudiofanatic
    bigaudiofanatic Posts: 4,415
    edited October 2010
    No crashing, rarely if ever gets viruses or malware, very stable, not freezing, can run for days and months without needed rebooting, no cluttered registry like windows that bogs the computer down over time, lots of hardware support, runs just about anything you want and can dual boot if needed right through mac os, partition on mac and linux never needs defraging. I can go on and on just very easy to get use to and very enjoyable knowing every time I power on my mac it is going to run. Oh and no shutting down and please wait while 45 updates install. Your lucky if you get one or two a month.
    HT setup
    Panasonic 50" TH-50PZ80U
    Denon DBP-1610
    Monster HTS 1650
    Carver A400X :cool:
    MIT Exp 3 Speaker Wire
    Kef 104/2
    URC MX-780 Remote
    Sonos Play 1

    Living Room
    63 inch Samsung PN63C800YF
    Polk Surroundbar 3000
    Samsung BD-C7900
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