New Mhackintosh and Hackintosh blog
July 8th, 2009
Yesterday, I started a blog about Mhackintosh, that is mainly hacked PC to run Mac OS X or Mac OS X-compatible distributions.
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Archive for the ‘HackIntosh’ Category
It’s there :-)
March 9th, 2009
My own Hackintosh/FrankenMac
It’s an Acer actually, sporting Windows Vista Home Premium SP1. I will have to upgrade it a little, add 3GB RAM (Removing 1GB, and adding 2×2GB sticks), adding a 1TB drive to the 500GB installed drive, or maybe 2×750GB drives? And add my Blu-Ray reader internally (something a MacPro or iMac user couldn’t dream of: viewing Blu-Ray content with HDCP display)
Anyway, it’s actually working on Windows, I have to reinstall Windows, reinstall firewall, reinstall antivirus, reinstall anti-malware, all the loss of time associated with Windows!
Then install a distribution of OS X for PC, to give it a try.
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?