Hackintosh

[Robert]

Any of you guys on here dabbled in hacking OSX onto PC?

I've had a 3GHz, P4, WinXP Dell machine gathering dust for three years but have just managed to finally get it OSX86'ed enough to run Logic smoothly, with a nice display and my firewire Audio/MIDI interfcace/control surface working.
Once I stick more RAM in it, it should be a pretty decent little audio workstation.

I initially had it dual booting WinXP and OSX but decided to ditch Windows completely as I never seem to use it.

 

[Wayne]

Any of you guys on here dabbled in hacking OSX onto PC?

I've got a Dell Vostro A90 here that I'm running Snow Leopard on without any issues, save for the keyboard being tiny.

I initially had it dual booting WinXP and OSX but decided to ditch Windows completely as I never seem to use it.

That sounds very familiar. "Never seem to use it" is how I went from the Amiga to PC, then from the PC to Mac.

I've got an Athlon XP 2800 PC laying around here. Keep thinking I should load OSX on it, but it's not a C2D, and it would probably need all new video and other cards, so as long as I have my 27" iMac, I figure, why bother?

Wayne

 

[Robert]

Any of you guys on here dabbled in hacking OSX onto PC?

I've got a Dell Vostro A90 here that I'm running Snow Leopard on without any issues, save for the keyboard being tiny.

I'm on 10.5.3 on the Dell. (10.5.8 on this Macbook). I haven't actually tried 10.6 yet. Is it noticably better?

I've got an Athlon XP 2800 PC laying around here. Keep thinking I should load OSX on it, but it's not a C2D, and it would probably need all new video and other cards

Well, to get anything of use out of my Dell I had to install a FW card, new graphics card and will also need some more RAM. I'm on 4GB on this Macbook and the latest audio project I'm working on runs fine but it barely gets a couple of seconds in on the 512MB Dell before it chucks it.

I also had to crowbar Logic 9 onto it (min requirements are 1GB RAM and OS10.5.7).

 

[Wayne]

I'm on 10.5.3 on the Dell. (10.5.8 on this Macbook). I haven't actually tried 10.6 yet. Is it noticably better?

Honestly, not noticeably better. Lee can back me up on that, as he just moved up to 10.6 as well. There are some things I like, such as the nicer taskbar display and such, but I don't notice all the speed bumps people were claiming. Then again, I moved to a bigger mac about the same time, so which is faster, the mac, or the OS?

Well, to get anything of use out of my Dell I had to install a FW card, new graphics card and will also need some more RAM. I'm on 4GB on this Macbook and the latest audio project I'm working on runs fine but it barely gets a couple of seconds in on the 512MB Dell before it chucks it.

I also had to crowbar Logic 9 onto it (min requirements are 1GB RAM and OS10.5.7).

Yep. I thought about building a dedicated desktop hackintosh, but frankly by the time the word gets out about a compatible motherboard, it's out of production and impossible to find.

I'd also have to take into account the money required to buy a new big monitor, so by the time it's all factored in, I'm running about even with an iMac. Even discounting the monitor issue, about even with a Mac Mini, so there's really no reason not to just buy a mac and be done with it.

The new mac mini server deal looks kinda fun though.

Wayne