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- Diggtatorship, on 02/03/2008, -22/+483Ok, I hate to be a dick, but this $350 hackintosh emits one vital piece of the puzzle. If you want to do this and make it even semi-legal you've got to buy Lepoard for another $130 which brings you to $480 at which point you're $20 short of just buying a real mac mini from the apple refurb store. That extra $20 gets you so much more, including a Core 2 Duo at 1.83Ghz, Bluetooth, 802.11g Wireless, a remote for Front Row, and iLife.
If Mac is what you want then you really can't beat the Mini in a dollar for dollar showdown. In fact, here's what you'd be paying if you stuck to all the cheapest components on Newegg and wanted to build a near-exact replica Mac Mini:
Shuttle Barebone - $174.99
Intel Core 2 Duo 1.86GHz - $169.99
1GB (2 x 512MB) DDR2 SDRAM - $21.99
80GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - $36.99
LITE-ON DVD/CR-RW Black - $22.99
Pinnacle USB Remote - $29.99
Rosewill 802.11b/g PCI Wireless Card - $14.99
USB 2.0 Bluetooth Adapter - $7.99
Mac OS X Leopard - $129.00
iLife '08 - $74.00
Shipping - $26.00
Total - $709.00 - jerryparid, on 02/03/2008, -83/+444A Mac is not a Mac if it is not expensive.
- colincornaby, on 02/03/2008, -13/+238More like build a really crappy Mac for $350. A Celeron? Even a Mac Mini would kick the crap out of this rig...
- f3l1x, on 02/03/2008, -20/+148haxed osx from your favorite torrent site: $0
hardware to build your hackintosh: $350
hosting your blog on said hardware then getting slathered in FAIL after submitting to digg: Priceless - basic0, on 02/03/2008, -6/+118The author doesn't mention what the performance is like. The CPU he used has 1/8th of the L2 cache that the base model iMac CPU does and is 400 Mhz slower.
- balthisar, on 02/03/2008, -7/+79Not breaking the law! Breaking a license agreement.
- buddhistMonkey, on 02/03/2008, -10/+79You're wrong on the high-end Macs. From ZDNet's George Ou (who is no friend of Apple):
"Now that the new Mac Pro with updated specifications and a much lower price has come out, I figured it’s time to do an updated comparison. But during my research I came to a stunning conclusion: it’s the cheapest name brand dual-processor workstation on the market IF you know how to buy third party memory and storage. It’s not only cheaper than the slower $3817 Dell workstation I looked at earlier this month, but I CAN’T EVEN BUILD A CHEAPER GENERIC PC CLONE UNLESS I SWITCHED TO A LOWER-END CPU." [emphasis mine]
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/?p=979 - otatop, on 02/03/2008, -1/+68It's what Apple calls their CD/DVD burners.
- Birdoftruth, on 02/03/2008, -18/+83wow this sure beats the hell out of lifehacker's $850.
- RoxStar1968, on 02/03/2008, -7/+67With some fiddling, one can make an equally priced hackintosh with 2 gb of the same ram by buying this hard drive
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?item=N8 ... - Diggtatorship, on 02/03/2008, -27/+86Of course, if you have no qualms about pirating software then, by all means, carry-on with your $350 hackintosh :)
Also wanted to add that the high-end Macs are a completely different story and are severely severely over-priced when you consider the component costs. So while you're going hackintosh you might as well take it all the way and actually get your money's worth. - WaterMedia, on 02/03/2008, -23/+81This is without:
iCal
iPhoto
iMovie
iMovieHD
Font Book
Front Row
iChat
iDVD
The real value of Apple's computers is in their excellent and integrated software. I'd go spend the $200 and get a real Mac... - vsLAN, on 02/03/2008, -1/+58That is a Pentium Dual-Core, not a Core 2 Duo... There is a major difference.
- jerryparid, on 02/03/2008, -4/+58Or pay $100 more and get an even better CPU. $450 still.
- getrealnow, on 02/03/2008, -10/+59Who doesn't love mods/hacks ? Keep up the good work.
- CHalCogen, on 02/03/2008, -9/+54That's one hell of a G4 tower, to have been made in 200, and to have gotten 1806 years of service. It must have had 3 galena-iron transistors.
- RoxStar1968, on 02/03/2008, -10/+56A home cooked mac mini :D
- dm33, on 02/03/2008, -15/+60This proves that Apple's are NOT overpriced. For a little more you can buy a Mac Mini with more expensive small components that is super quiet, cool and small. AND you legally purchase Mac OS X. And it came with a year warranty and you didn't have to mess with trying to build your own mess.
- georgetds, on 02/03/2008, -5/+46My G5 iMac recently stopped working, I took it into local Apple retailer for repairs. A week and a bit later, I get a call to come pick it up. The invoice valued the repairs of the power supply ($120) and the logic board ($735) but I was not charged a dime. Why? I really don't know - my computer is around 3 years old, long past its warranty and yet for some reason, Apple is covering for a flaw that was in it all the same.
So my question is, can I hope to expect that kind of service from a heaped together hackintosh? - cyberdork, on 02/03/2008, -9/+49Hackintoshs are great. I installed OSX on my PC at work a year ago.
But be aware that there are some drawbacks. Most importantly: if there is an update of the OS you can't simply install it, you will most likely have to once again download a hacked disk image and reinstall the entire OS. For that reason I'm still running 10.4.8.
I also have the feeling that performance wise a Hackintosh is slower than a real Mac. My PC with a P4 3.2GHz and 4GB of RAM often doesn't feel much faster than my iBook G4 1.2GHz. Eventhough I have full SSE3 support and even QE is working. - skidooer, on 02/03/2008, -24/+63You are already breaking the law by installing OS X on non-Apple branded hardware, why pay $130 to do so?
- bootle, on 02/03/2008, -14/+52Buried for the phrase "100% working"
- bobartig, on 02/03/2008, -0/+37Erm, the Lifehacker's machine had better hardware, and was also built from off-the shelf components. I don't want to blow your mind here, but better hardware costs more =P
- cave, on 02/03/2008, -12/+46Please show me where Leopard is mentioned in the constitution and I'll ***** my pants.
- satanatnmtedu, on 02/03/2008, -0/+34omits
- allyant, on 02/03/2008, -2/+32Well seen that most people got the Leo disk from torrents, i'm sure they will be able to find all that software too.
- estvir, on 02/03/2008, -1/+29A lot has changed in a year, for example, if there is an update for the OS you /can/ simply install it if you have EFI+Vanilla kernel which all the major releases (Kalyways, iATKOS, etc) of Leopard support.
Oh, and even a year ago you wouldn't have to reinstall it to install big updates like 10.4.x or so. - nixfu, on 02/03/2008, -4/+30Actually not quite 100%....updates become a major pain because they all ALSO have to be hacked to get them to install so your always chasing down hacks keep your system updated.
- Tippis, on 02/03/2008, -1/+27It supports X3100 as well.
- johnpaul191, on 02/03/2008, -19/+44I don't think Macs are expensive when you consider how long they are usable. I don't know if this will change in the Intel era, but i don't think so. It's an OS thing. As OS X matured, it actually ran faster on older PPC Macs than the previous version (G3 or G4 chips). Ask anyone that had the same machine and went from 10.1 to 10.2 to 10.3 to 10.4.
I used a G4 tower from early 200 till late 2006. It ran everything from OS 9 to 10.4. I did some upgrades along the way (processor, vid card etc), but a 6 year old machine running the current OS and most new software is pretty ok to me. - Kerrigore, on 02/03/2008, -0/+22It's more comparable to the Mac mini than the iMac.
- troye, on 02/03/2008, -1/+23Apple does what pleases Apple.
- archer75, on 02/03/2008, -2/+23You can still have all those apps. They are on my hackintosh.
- inactive, on 02/03/2008, -0/+21Thanks! I'll send you everyones email address.
- wildwobby, on 02/03/2008, -14/+35Yeah, and cheaper!
- noahhoward, on 02/03/2008, -3/+23In other words stealing something you want?
- RoxStar1968, on 02/03/2008, -4/+23you build it?
- Eminemdrdre00, on 02/03/2008, -4/+23Since when do Digg users have a problem with piracy?
- Steeple, on 02/03/2008, -1/+19not anymore..efi emulation cured that
- 31213121, on 02/03/2008, -3/+21yeah, though if you don't want to buy a completely new PC for OSX, and want to dual boot with Windows, you need this guide: http://osx86.thefreesuite.com/ (which tells you how to dual boot leopard or Tiger with Windows on your Intel or AMD PC)
- Hosalabad, on 02/03/2008, -2/+20Haha is this the first time you have ever heard of anything Apple has done? Wait until you hear about their mouse.
- wordsofwisedumb, on 02/03/2008, -3/+20Read the whole comment? Never crossed your mind?
- chingy1788, on 02/03/2008, -12/+29or have a saving of $20
whats a super drive? some new fancy term for CDRW/DVDRW? - cave, on 02/03/2008, -0/+17If you ever tried to use a Linux distro on obscure hardware, you'd know what they mean...
- ataylor32, on 02/03/2008, -5/+21You weren't supposed to mention that
- DarkDx, on 02/03/2008, -1/+17It feels the same? wtf, try playing HD video in that ibook...
- digitalpencil, on 02/03/2008, -2/+18I think you underestimate just how crappy celerons are!
- inactive, on 02/03/2008, -14/+29-_-
- houndeyex, on 02/03/2008, -1/+16Start playing one of the few games they make available for Mac. Your "lifetime" will take a steep turn for the normal. Additionally, if you're replacing the main guts of the machine (processor, vid card, etc.) I'm not so sure that it's the same computer anymore. Sure I've been using the same case for 6 years and one of the hard drives was the same until recently, but I don't call it the same "computer" anymore.
- inactive, on 02/03/2008, -1/+16When Apple does that, they will be no different from Microsoft in Driver issues, having to instal drivers for simple things like scanners, printers, etc.
OSX runs good due to having a limited hardware base that code need to be created for. Throw in a few hundred different motherboards alone and the problems start, then they have to write for AMD gear, older PC parts, videos cards, etc. lets not forget cheap no name network cards, you then have the same thing that Windows has, issues with hardware, another Vista. -
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