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    Hackintosh

    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.

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    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.
    Last edited by optiguy; 10th April 2010 at 22:51.

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    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...
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    I have hackintosh running on VMware fusion, but it rarely comes in handy...
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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Vangar View Post
    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.

    Quote Originally Posted by Submeg
    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.

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    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. But there are many more also exploring it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Harrison View Post
    OSX is still quite a nice OS
    I will remember that you said that.

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