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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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Here it is, finalized in it’s first version:

• Quad Core 4×2.4Ghz
• 8GB RAM
• 1TB (OS X) + 500GB (Vista) HD
• DVD SuperDrive
• Blu-Ray Drive
• GeForce 8800 GTS
• 8 free USB Port, SD/CF/Memory stick Card Reader, 2 eSATA
• 24″ 1920×1200 screen (and Games playable in Full HD )

I could have bought an used Mac Pro (nearly 2000$ in Canada), adding memory, Blu-Ray Drive, hard-drive, but in any case I may not have a GeForce 8800 and so many USB port with an integrated Card-Reader!

And naturally this Mhackintosh run Windows Vista in 32bits and 64bits mode, something that only latest MacPro could do!

And for the price? It costed me less than $1000 buying an used PC

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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.

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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?

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