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It's Alive: Mac OS X on Non-Apple Hardware

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Another "How to make a Hackintosh" post. Ground breaking. People have been able to do this for quite a while now, I don't see how this is news at all.

Especially true when you scroll to the very bottom and the end result is Audio and DVD not working.

I would attribute that to the poster not knowing a whole heck of a lot when he bought his hardware, or about the availability of various fixes for the issues he's having. There is a vast amount of information out there. The DVD not working is of course due to him setting his BIOS exclusively to SATA instead of compatibility mode. The audio, if its even close to a new motherboard, should be able to be solved quite easily with http://code.google.com/p/voodoohda/ or HDAEnabler. Some of the stuff he does is unnecessary. A lot of newbie mistakes. The only thing interesting is that it's an i7.

ETA: Written on my faster-than-a-mac-pro-and-only-cost-800-dollars-hackintosh.

Only $800? That's great--what are the specs?

Antec 300 Case

500 Watt Antec Earthwatts PS

2x 1TB HDs

Q8400 2.66GHz Quad Core Processor

Gigabyte EP45T-UD3LR Motherboard

8GB DDR3 RAM

If you have further interest drop me a message.

Cool--that's a great rig. I'm exploring it all now on the IM forums.

Oops -- I should also have added that it's a 9800GTX+ EVGA video card.

Fixed since then.

Not ground-breaking, but this is one of the more detailed instructions I've seen.

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http://hackerol.ds :(

I basically did the same thing, but it went like this:

    1. Build my first PC (similar specs as theirs, the important bits anyway)
    2. Install Arch Linux and be comfortable with that
    3. Curiosity builds, I attempt a Hackintosh install and am greeted with everything but audio working.
    4. Back to arch for a few months.
    5. iAtkos v7 came out a little while ago, I tried it, and it worked flawlessly. I am now running 10.5.7 as my main OS. Woo.

(Side-rant: I have to use a codeblock for a list? Seriously? For such a technical site this place sure isn't pretty when it comes to functionality and overall completeness. It's like someone started working on it, forgot about it, and people are using it without the creator knowing about it.)

So, while this may be a "How to make a Hackintosh" post, it is actually more helpful as the hardware they mention is hardware that did not work properly in the past.

My installation and setup was much less difficult than theirs, though, I just had to select NVEnabler and the GT200 video drivers and everything worked.

It'd be a lot less work to just buy a legit Mac. ;-)

If they weren't so fucking expensive, or if Apple _openly_ allowed you to install it on whatever the hell you wanted to, then we wouldn't be having this conversation.

There very little aspect of learning, challenge, and fun in just buying something off the shelf, however.

After attempting to get a Hackintosh up and running a couple of times (and failing), I would advice anyone who attempts this and intends to remain somewhat honest, to stall the purchase of a proper version OS X until you actually have a successful, working install.

In my opinion getting the install to work can easily be considered more complex than getting an equivalent box running Linux properly was back in the days.

I respectfully disagree for one reason and one reason only. The insanelymac forums have guide upon guide for all sorts of hardware configurations.

There is a hardware compatibility list that gives you a good starting point for buying compatible hardware.

Finally, the use of Boot-132 in conjunction with Chameleon has made setting up a completely flawless 10.5.x install pretty simple compared to what it used to require.

Although, you might be right. I am very conveniently forgetting the 2-3 days I spent tinkering with broken installations a year ago. It takes time to learn some of the stuff, but for most of the folks on HN I would assume you'd have little trouble getting it working after a little reading and googling.

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