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- NinjaPig, on 01/25/2008, -4/+114It's really not as simple as this. As someone who's been on the scene for over a year, there's a lot of hardware dependencies. Some people cannot get the disc to boot up without an external USB drive. Although, I admit there are some incredibly hard working people who made the entire nforce 8000 series qe/ci enabled.
Oh, Kalyway's image even with a vanilla kernal, does not have a working battery meter, for those hackbook aspirers. There is an alternate image that fixed this i believe.
Not to be discouraging but the only way to be able to pull this off successfully is to look the osx86 scene(forums) and see how people are faring with similar setups to yours. - smoger, on 01/25/2008, -5/+97always a bad sign when an article starts with "the hardest part is messing with your BIOS. i don't know what i did to mine to get it to work, but here's some screenshots to help you guess. ok, next step!"
- deadbaby, on 01/25/2008, -10/+61If you buy the right hardware it's flawless. I like Apple hardware and all but there's no way I'm spending $2k+ on a MacPro when I can build a mid-range tower for under $1k.
- dedkittens, on 01/25/2008, -5/+52But, the iMac...
- lunarworks, on 01/25/2008, -11/+56Tempting, simply because Apple STILL refuses to offer a desktop between the underpowered/non-upgradeable Mac mini and the $2500 Mac Pro.
DON'T bother saying "But, the iMac..." - ElbowGeek, on 01/25/2008, -4/+39Dugg down - this article has nothing to do with Scientology.
- brufleth, on 01/25/2008, -2/+26So you claim it is an easy install but there are several hardware related issues which are going to require additional tweaking to fix.
You just agreed with the people you were calling liars. - helfire, on 01/25/2008, -3/+25for amd users: Zephyroth Leopard 10.5.1 AMD
- allyant, on 01/25/2008, -0/+20What? I have tried installing hackintosh and linux on my second partition many times, if you know how to do it the correct way, you will not lose data.
- smrekar, on 01/25/2008, -1/+19i heard of a guy who was able to pirate hardware...it was called...stealing.
- kcap122, on 01/25/2008, -2/+17n00b
- nielkie, on 01/25/2008, -6/+20Because some people prefer Mac OS X, and Mac hardware is overpriced.
(I built a hackintosh for about $1000 cheaper that it would of cost me to buy a Mac with nearly exactly the same hardware) - estvir, on 01/25/2008, -3/+16> I thought the overall impression on here was that Windows is better than OS X?
There is no way someone could think this about Digg who has actually used it for more than 5 minutes. - djh816, on 01/25/2008, -3/+16its really not that hard...you download a image, burn to dvd, and install. damn you're lazy
- pintomp3, on 01/25/2008, -0/+12you're right, it's not so simple. your success will depend heavily on what hardware you have. osx is designed for a very limited range of hardware. anything that isn't withint those bounds requires hacks, many which require a lot of tweaking to work right.
- Henwood, on 01/25/2008, -1/+13They could call it... the Mac.
- Nobiting, on 01/25/2008, -17/+29A small warning here from past experience: Don't try installing this onto a partitioned hard drive, you'll lose all the data.
- depro9, on 01/25/2008, -7/+19Buying a computer for " how it looks" is one of the dumbest things a person could do.
- brufleth, on 01/25/2008, -1/+12Sounds like a Linux install I had back in college. How appropriate.
- Bender1012, on 01/25/2008, -0/+11agree with allyant, I have Leopard running with XP on the same drive. Like with many things, you're only screwed if you don't know what you're doing.
- Onetrack, on 01/25/2008, -2/+12My hackintosh is rock solid right now, and Adam and I did a lot of troubleshooting on his board - OSX is incredibly picky about the hardware, but if you have compatible parts you can make a bullet proof install.
I'm using a Gigabyte 945gcmx-s2 with 4 gigs of ram, geforce 7950GT, logitech s530 wireless keyboard / mouse, linksys wmp54gs 802.11G card, startech 6port usb, 320 gig sata formatted as GUID and split (200 gig for osx, the rest for vista, dual booting with darwinloader) and 2 500 gig sata storage drives also a pioneer 111d optical. Everything works flawlessly, and a little better than the Kalyway installer (which i am using now) I also have a test rig with a customized slipstream system for graphics, sound, lan strings built into com.apple.Boot.plist. So no drivers from the disk are required, system is rock stable @ 2.8ghz on an oc'd E6600.
Apple for f's sake make the missing mac, a headless mid tower with a couple pci ports so people can upgrade, my system is all crammed into a nice small thermaltake lanbox lite chained to a 22" acer @ 1680x1050 - osx is gorgeous on this system.
people HAVE to start realizing that paying 2000+ apple tax for a case with common pc hardware in it is foolish.
My next rig is a quadcore system which I'm assembling the parts for now, based on the configuration I want, I'll save about 3800 over the similarly configured mac pro.
OH.. Crysis runs damn nicely on this system too. - 31213121, on 01/25/2008, -5/+15yeah, and if you don't want to give your whole hard disk to Leopard, or want to dual boot with Windows, Linux etc. This doesn't tell you how to setup the HFS+ partition.
Go here for a detailed dual bot guide: http://osx86.thefreesuite.com/ It only tells you how, in a good way, in the last step there's a link to osx86scene forums, where you can ask questions. - nielkie, on 01/25/2008, -1/+10I recommend an 8800GT or GTS. They are both computable with the leaked 10.5.2 kexts (Which you can install relatively painlessly), and are both good cards. (Though with the current state of the drivers, performance is worse than most 7xxx cards, but that will be solved by the time 10.5.2 is officially released.
- Steeple, on 01/25/2008, -2/+11EXACTLY why i did this, the imac is plenty fast, but the inaccessible hard-drive and the built in screen make it a bad choice for me
- lebruf, on 01/25/2008, -0/+8Trying to tell anyone who is willing to build a Hackintosh to stay away from the newest version release is an exercise in futility.
- redxxx, on 01/25/2008, -0/+8uhhhh..... you can remap the mouse buttons so the left one does context menus instead of the right, just like you can in windows, linux, bsd, solaris...
unless I am massively misunderstanding you. - betterth, on 01/25/2008, -3/+11Digg is a Mac fanboy hangout. Probably because Kevin Rose is leader of the Mac fanboys =P
Hey I run OSX on my laptop and XP on my desktop. My laptop is used for school, where stability and ease of use are paramount. My desktop is used for gaming and various amounts of graphics and software development, where I personally strongly prefer XP.
To each their own :P - inactive, on 01/25/2008, -1/+9Your right, my hackintosh cost =$400.00
- burrgrinder, on 01/25/2008, -0/+8I'm a legitimate Mac user and a programmer and there really isn't that much you need to buy. There are high quality free programs out there for just about everything. Many packages from linux have been nicely ported over, and there are lots of native free programs too.
On my computer, I can count on one hand the number of mac-software packages I've purchased. iWork, Coda, Transmit, VMware, MS Office, and all of those are directly related to work. If you're just an "average home user" there probably isn't anything you'd have to buy except maybe Office, and you could easily get by with OpenOffice for most needs.
The only major software cost of switching would be big packages with restrictive licenses, like Adobe stuff and MS Office, where if you already own one of their packages for Windows, you'll have to buy it again for the Mac. And also, pirating is just as popular on Mac as it is Windows. It's something people either do or don't do, and it doesn't really affect any motives from Apple. - inactive, on 01/25/2008, -1/+8Can someone PLEASE virtualize this to an appliance so we can run it on our PCs via vmware!?!!
- SteveMax, on 01/25/2008, -0/+7I miss the times when only tech-related people were in Digg. It wasn't free of idiots, but at least their stupid comments didn't sound THIS clueless.
- starkruzr, on 01/25/2008, -0/+7Let us know when you finish masturbating to your resume.
- CoolWind, on 01/25/2008, -0/+7Absolutely no problems? Then why did you say in an earlier post "I can't change resolution and OpenGL applications aren't operating correctly. And, I haven't figured out getting my wireless to work."? Absolutely no problems?
- norman619, on 01/25/2008, -15/+21Nice? This is OSX we are talking about. The hardware specs are pretty damn specific. you can't use any hardware you like. What you are basically doing is making a Mac on the cheap. Well, I guess that's pretty cool. You get to learn how much Apple rips you off for the same hardware config and save a ***** of money.
- johnnybluejeans, on 01/25/2008, -5/+11you're
- chingy1788, on 01/25/2008, -1/+7yes, my friends do that, i do that, and I'm pretty sure my enemies do that
- sv650touring, on 01/25/2008, -2/+7Buying a computer *just* for looks may be a bit girly, but don't let the basement dwellers tell you looks don't matter. Wife, car/truck, home, clothes, furniture, TV, bed sheets. Of those things, how many would you say you chose with no consideration for looks? How much of the human mind is dedicated to processing visuial info?
Also, by "design", could you have possibly meant silent & small? - Takuro, on 01/25/2008, -1/+6The title is a little misleading. Leopard cannot be installed on a Hackintosh with "no hacking required." Even with Kalway, you're really just using a pre-hacked disc, similar to the ToH disc that's been floating around for months. It's not like you can pop in a commercial Leopard dvd or anything.
- burrgrinder, on 01/25/2008, -0/+5No, but Mac Pros are the only expandable Macs, and if you just want a Mac that is expandable, the Pro is overkill. Also, you *can* build a Mac Pro equivalent for significantly less than Apple's price.
- Paranoidmarvin, on 01/25/2008, -12/+17My advice:
Get a Core 2 Duo on a 945GC Chipset, a Geforce 7 card and a Broadcom based wireless.
That way, you'll be nearly 100% compatible with Mac - pnrl, on 01/25/2008, -0/+5It's not a problem, really. There's most of "big" software from Adobe, MS, Apple, lots of quality shareware. And you have Darwine, which lets you run e.g. Internet Explorer 6 on OS X desktop. In desperation, you may compile Linux applications on OS X (it doesn't require command-line hackery) or install VMWare/Parallels which have nice, almost seamless integration of Windows with OS X desktop.
- natedouglas, on 01/26/2008, -0/+5Let me tell you about how ***** much I've missed Bonzi Buddy.
- EzarKun, on 01/25/2008, -2/+7I got
C2D E6420
GeForce 8800GTS 640MB (but System porfiler see only 256MB, lets see the final 10.5.2 drivers)
Asus P5B Mobo
LG SATA Mulit-functional DVD drive
Almost everything I need works, except sound input. I dont know about Firewire, I have never used it.
Leopard is great, remember to install PC_EFI.
THANK YOU ALL THOSE CODERS AND CONTRIBUTERS WHO HELP MADE LEO ON PC POSSIBLE, YOU GUYZ/GIRLS WIN! - celkin, on 01/25/2008, -0/+5BUTTER!!!!!!
- jsebrech, on 01/25/2008, -3/+8Yes, you can reduce it to the applications that are actually worth running.
- MikeCerm, on 01/25/2008, -1/+6@ NinjaPig - It IS as easy as this. The point of the LifeHacker article was to show you that if you buy the exact same hardware that they did, it will work. It's really about how to build a Hackintosh with only supported components, one that works out-of-the-box (or as close as possible), with as little guess-work and hacking as possible.
As stated in the first paragraph of the article, everything discussed in this article only applies if you used their recommended hardware. This is not a guide on how to convert whatever you have laying around into a functioning OSX machine. - djh816, on 01/25/2008, -1/+5there is a leopard amd out there somewhere.
- pnrl, on 01/25/2008, -0/+4Without properly working 3d drivers OS X is as much fun as Windows in Recovery Mode, and AFAIK it's not so easy to virtualize 3d hardware (with all the fancy shaders and good performance)
- malechite, on 01/25/2008, -0/+4And if there is IDE on board, IDE usually takes up 1st master/slave and 2nd master/slave, and a SATA drive in position 0 would be 3rd master.
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