I've been running a Hackintosh as my main day to day system for nearly two years now - I've just moved from a core2duo to a core2 quad core (not cutting edge but runs merrily overclocked at 3.7GHz)
It can be a little problematic getting going but the advice below is correct - also hunting around the insanelymac forums can help. You will need a Mac OSx Snow Leopard retail disk to start with (this prevents you from getting into any thorny license issues) and I recommend looking at the Empire EFI bootloader I would suggest just doing an install with the above two (a vanilla kernel install) first and then see what is/isn't working - there is a very strong probability you wont get it perfect first time but you will learn a lot in the process. One key piece of advice is make sure your running SATA in AHCI mode in your BIOS (IDE or RAID mode WILL NOT WORK) - also if you can stick with NVIDIA for graphics (ATI will work but there are more occasions where they will not work well/at all) - I run an 8800GT and its fine driving two monitors at 1920x1200 My usage prompted me to get a MBP in January and the experience is totally comparable between the two - never looking back now ! Mac OS X really gives me the best of all worlds : 1) Good stable Linux(ey) underlying OS for developing/testing apps (Apache/Perl/Mysql) 2) Great virtual machine support (VMware fusion is brilliant - runs Windows 7 x64 at probably 80% native speed) 3) Functional Graphical interface (Windows is no where near and Compiz under Linux is overly mental) 4) Plenty of third party support (certainly in the last 2 years and growing) 5) Great hardware design Laptops, I can tell you, are a bit more of a challenge; it's unlikely that power management will work (including suspend) and highly probably that speedstep won't work (CPU running at full tilt at all times) Happy hacking Let me know if you need any help - I'll advise what I can Martin On 8 July 2010 09:42, Andy Taylor <andy...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 7 July 2010 17:45, Phil Thompson <p...@yarwell.demon.co.uk> wrote: > > Anyone put Mac OSX onto non-Apple hardware ? > > > > Is it worth the effort for a laptop, to save a few hundred quid (I > suspect > > the answer to that is obvious, but don't have a good measure of how > > difficult it will be). > > The best place to start is to check out the hardware compatability > list at http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page > > That site will tell you what is compatable, and if a piece of hardware > is not compatable out of the box, it will tell you how to install the > drivers. > > Before I got a proper Apple MacBook, I had a hackintosh at home. Never > had a problem with it. > > -- > Andy Taylor > http://www.retrocomputers.eu > > _______________________________________________ > Peterboro mailing list > Peterboro@mailman.lug.org.uk > https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro >
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