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Harrison
10th April 2010, 02:08
Has anyone here built a Hackintoch, or is thinking about it?

Hackintosh = running Mac OS 10.5 or 10.6 on an unsupported computer.

I was just looking around a few of the many sites on this subject, and it seems that there are a lot of people doing this, especially to create a laptop running OSX.

One site called http://www.hackintosh.com/ contains links to loads of information and guides on doing this.
optiguy
10th April 2010, 04:55
I have a Hack not all that tough to get going as long as you have the right hardware.
I am running a DFI bloodiron mobo, with a q 6600 and its very stable, you just have to watch out for updates they can wreck you sysytem.
Submeg
11th April 2010, 05:03
Wouldn't do it...I find the Mac OS very limiting, I'm used to how the PC works and how you can alter things...
Vangar
11th April 2010, 22:24
I have hackintosh running on VMware fusion, but it rarely comes in handy...
Stephen Coates
12th April 2010, 04:44
I thought about running OSX on my new machine, but havn't got round to trying yet. I'm not sure if all my hardware is compatible.
Harrison
12th April 2010, 16:16
Intel CPU, so that will make it easier. Looking through a lot of the hacks and patches to make it work, it seems a lot of hardware combinations can be made to work. However the newest OSX doesn't seem to work as easily as the last.
optiguy
12th April 2010, 19:32
I tried getting snow leopard running and it proved to be to much trouble, but leopard runs great and you can multi boot with windows or linux so you are not tied to one os.
Harrison
13th April 2010, 11:01
I have hackintosh running on VMware fusion, but it rarely comes in handy...

VMware fusion? That is a Mac OSX virtulisation emulator, so are you in fact running Windows on your Mac? Not OSX on a PC?

But anyway, I hadn't thought of installing OSX on a virtual machine, as I was considering setting it up as a dual boot setup on an Intel PC, but it would be a nicer solution to do this.

I've had the PPC versions of OSX running fine using PearPC emulation in the past, and I think for the playing around I would only need OSX for, a virtual machine setup would be ideal.


Wouldn't do it...I find the Mac OS very limiting, I'm used to how the PC works and how you can alter things...

Whilst OSX is still quite a nice OS in its own right, I also find it quite limiting and restrictive compared to Windows, especially Vista/Win7.

But, also as you say, you are used to how Windows works, so OSX will always feel a little alien in the way it does things. It just depends on what you have grown up with, or used for years.
Harrison
13th April 2010, 13:08
I've just been reading about people managing to installed OSX 10.6 using VMWARE7, so I'm very interesting in playing around with this idea.

One article discussing this with a short guide is here (http://www.ihackintosh.com/2009/12/install-snow-leopard-in-vmware-7-windows-edition/). But there are many more also exploring it.
Stephen Coates
13th April 2010, 14:58
OSX is still quite a nice OS

I will remember that you said that.
Harrison
13th April 2010, 15:29
Quote taken completely out of context there Steve! ;)

I did go on to say it is limiting and restrictive, and stand by that.
woody.cool
15th April 2010, 16:37
I have a Hackintosh at the moment, but it doesn't like some of the hardware I have. For one, it doesn't support IDE/ATAPI optical drives (CD/DVD/BluRay) but all my SATA ports are used up with hard drives!
Any ideas of a way around this?
Harrison
15th April 2010, 23:47
SATA PCI card? Or an SATA splitter which can convert one SATA port into 2.
woody.cool
15th April 2010, 23:51
SATA PCI card? Or an SATA splitter which can convert one SATA port into 2.
My SATA card is currently in my other PC (a Windows 2000 file server) which is quite old and doesn't have SATA ports. As for SATA splitter, hmmmmm, didn't know they existed!?!
Harrison
16th April 2010, 00:03
Their proper name is port multipliers and they work more like a network hub, taking the connection from the SATA motherboard/IO card connection into the multiplier on one side, and then offering up to 5 ports at the other side to connect SATA devices to.

One such example is here (http://www.scan.co.uk/products/Lycom-ST-126RM-SATA-II-3Gbps-1-To-5-Port-Multiplier-bridge-board-%28for-Rack-Mount%29)
woody.cool
16th April 2010, 13:11
Their proper name is port multipliers and they work more like a network hub, taking the connection from the SATA motherboard/IO card connection into the multiplier on one side, and then offering up to 5 ports at the other side to connect SATA devices to.

One such example is here (http://www.scan.co.uk/products/Lycom-ST-126RM-SATA-II-3Gbps-1-To-5-Port-Multiplier-bridge-board-%28for-Rack-Mount%29)
Nice :)

I may have to 'invest' in a couple of those (always handy to have a spare)