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Posted by chinamon on May-22-2009 21:17:

hackintosh -- anyone?

so yesterday i built myself a new pc because i wanted to run osx. today i finally got osx running nicely and im on it right now. any of you guys/gals using a hackintosh?

i hope im not the only one considering there are so many nerds on TA.

Posted by LKD on May-22-2009 22:22:

there are a couple netbooks out there that are 100% hackintosh compatible...a dell and an acer(?)

PS. what you gonna do with ur second mouse button? lol

Posted by chinamon on May-22-2009 23:40:

quote:
Originally posted by El K Dee
there are a couple netbooks out there that are 100% hackintosh compatible...a dell and an acer(?)

PS. what you gonna do with ur second mouse button? lol

uhh.. right-click works.

as for netbooks, its the dell mini 9 and the acer aspire one a-150.
im thinking about getting the acer.

Posted by Ozmozis on May-22-2009 23:41:

Posted by chinamon on May-22-2009 23:42:

quote:
Originally posted by �Zm�zis
new macs/os use the second mouse button paki

yeah that smelly bastard is still stuck back in the days of Apple II.

Posted by exstasie on May-22-2009 23:43:

quote:
Originally posted by �Zm�zis
new macs/os use the second mouse button paki

+1

Second mouse button is used as the secondary click (right click).

Does the same if you hold CTRL + click or if you have 2 fingers touching the trackpad and click.

Posted by Ozmozis on May-22-2009 23:43:

quote:
Originally posted by chinamon
yeah that smelly bastard is still stuck back in the days of Apple II.

That's what happens when they just stick to one thing and that's all they use. Kinda like ordering Medium double double at Timmy's

Posted by LKD on May-22-2009 23:52:

quote:
Originally posted by �Zm�zis
That's what happens when they just stick to one thing and that's all they use. Kinda like ordering Medium double double at Timmy's

triple triple for me you mexican

Posted by Orko on May-23-2009 00:20:

I've wanted to try it out, but I was too lazy to look for a guide.

Link?

Posted by LKD on May-23-2009 00:35:

quote:
Originally posted by Orko
I've wanted to try it out, but I was too lazy to look for a guide.

Link?

first purchase the original OSX disc...*cough*cough*

Posted by malek on May-23-2009 00:37:

binder dundat...

my only issue was that my damn video card wasn't 100% compatible.

Be sure that your specific video card has a osx driver, because else you won't get hardware accelration , and that sucks.

Posted by chinamon on May-23-2009 00:49:

quote:
Originally posted by Orko
I've wanted to try it out, but I was too lazy to look for a guide.

Link?

i did all my reading on www.insanelymac.com
they have a good wiki with a decent list of compatible components.
but make sure you do a LOT of reading on the forum as well because there is usually more to do than just an install of osx.

Posted by chinamon on May-23-2009 00:50:

quote:
Originally posted by malek
binder dundat...

my only issue was that my damn video card wasn't 100% compatible.

Be sure that your specific video card has a osx driver, because else you won't get hardware accelration , and that sucks.

motherboard is the most important piece of hardware when it comes to hackintosh.
second would be cpu. only dual core cpu's are supported. ive seen a patch for single core but i dont know how well it works.
third would be video card. i made sure i picked one that was completely compatible.

Posted by malek on May-23-2009 01:08:

yeah the first two are for sure because the thing won't even boot to let you install it, so you get the idea right away that your setup is not up to the game...

but discovering that your video card is incompatible after hours and hours of install and fiddeling sucks assssssss

Posted by rabbitjoker on May-23-2009 03:21:

Why bother with Win7 around the corner.

OSX wha?

Posted by Prometheus Xex on May-23-2009 03:29:

Re: hackintosh -- anyone?

quote:
Originally posted by chinamon

so yesterday i built myself a new pc because i wanted to run osx. today i finally got osx running nicely and im on it right now. any of you guys/gals using a hackintosh?

i hope im not the only one considering there are so many nerds on TA.

It's an abomination I tell ya! Repent heathen ! ! !

Posted by spolitta on May-23-2009 04:08:

I've been using this for over a year now and it's rock solid and silent, doesn't come close to my old G5. Funny enough, I've tweak it so much for some reason it doesn't load windows anymore unless I load it via VMware, I think it Only likes OSX.

Posted by LKD on May-23-2009 04:17:

quote:
Originally posted by rabbitjoker
Why bother with Win7 around the corner.

OSX wha?

but you're not cool if you use any microsoft products...dont you get it?

Posted by Ni-Cd on May-23-2009 13:18:

Jay, you mind giving us an equipment list & prices? I'd actually be interested to try this out. You running dual monitors? I have a 20" and a 28" and I wouldn't want to sacrifice any of the realestate..

All you other peeps, anyone running OSX in VMWare in windows 7 rc1 environment? What's the performance like (I think with the latest VMWARE you can run two monitors) too.

Posted by VDub on May-23-2009 14:03:

quote:
Originally posted by malek
binder dundat...

Paki who's been all over the world...

Posted by plaxx on May-23-2009 15:22:

quote:
Originally posted by rabbitjoker
Why bother with Win7 around the corner.

OSX wha?

You mean 'Vista ME' ?

Posted by spiderpig on May-23-2009 15:30:

quote:
Originally posted by Ni-Cd
Jay, you mind giving us an equipment list & prices? I'd actually be interested to try this out. You running dual monitors? I have a 20" and a 28" and I wouldn't want to sacrifice any of the realestate..

All you other peeps, anyone running OSX in VMWare in windows 7 rc1 environment? What's the performance like (I think with the latest VMWARE you can run two monitors) too.

http://lifehacker.com/software/hack...-800-321913.php

Posted by Mr Moss on May-23-2009 16:32:

osx has its own file system right? does the osx install format the hd to that before copying system files?

Posted by chinamon on May-23-2009 18:11:

quote:
Originally posted by Ni-Cd
Jay, you mind giving us an equipment list & prices? I'd actually be interested to try this out. You running dual monitors? I have a 20" and a 28" and I wouldn't want to sacrifice any of the realestate..

ive never run dual displays ever so i cant comment on that.
however, you can find a good list of compatible parts here: http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

make sure you do lots of reading beforehand. there are people that keep trying but never get it to work and they end up loading windows on the box. people in a hackintosh chatroom told me that i am lucky to have mine running after one day because many of them took a few days or even weeks until their system worked fine. i did all my research on www.insanelymac.com in their osx86 subforum.

Posted by chinamon on May-23-2009 18:11:

quote:
Originally posted by Mr Moss
osx has its own file system right? does the osx install format the hd to that before copying system files?

yes.

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