Dark Side!!!
March 8th, 2009
I will go to the Dark Side : Hackintosh OSx86 (wikipedia).
A Hackintosh is a PC where you install Mac OS X, using hardware/software tricks, such as EFI motherboard, EFI-X bootloader, or a distribution of hacked Mac OS X Leopard. The idea is to have Mac OS X running on a cheap PC instead paying the price of a real Mac.
I will buy a Quad-Core 4×3.0Ghz PC with GeForce 8800 to install Mac OS X on it. Yes this setup is faster than first generation MacPro, that sold for $2000 used, but I plan to pay it around $500: a bargain!
How to install? Which distribution to install? How it’s effectively working? What’s the performances against real Mac? And more: what’s the MacPro or iMac do better that justify it’s tag price?