hackintosh build
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- kalkal0
I wouldn't be the first:
http://www.s155158671.websitehom… (horrible site design)Pretty sure there's a better way to mount those fans inside without ruining the looks though.
- hah...cool. :-)akrokdesign
- just use a black dust filter I thinkepigraph
- prophetone0
This is cool, good work.
- GeorgesII0
Scarabin, you're going to love it,
my hackintosh is pretty fuckn rock solid,
are you going lion or snow leper?btw what liquid cooling are you putting in,
I'm using the corsair H60?
- Hombre_Lobo0
Sweeeeeet!
Nice work dude :)
did you have to do bios changes before install?
- yeah, it's mostly spelled out in those directions above. not too much to that. mb had latest bios already.johnny_wobble
- most tweaking and experimenting was in multibeast after install. there a few hangups along the way.johnny_wobble
- Boz0
damn abettertomorrow is gonna lose it :)
- orrinward0
I was running 10.7 on my Dell Mini 9 Netbook but preferred SL, dropped back to 10.6.8, then decided to drop to Ubuntu for speed, and better XBMC capability.
My Mini 9 was a beast - 16GB SSD for main OS, with a customised motherboard with 4 internal USB ports, each with a 16GB drive. One ran Ubuntu, the other 3 were storage.
About £130 spent and a bit of solder, for a 9inch netbook 2GHz Intel Atom (overclocked), 2GB RAM, internal Bluetooth, 3G and 80GB (closer to 70 really as 5 drives at '16gb' is less) of Solid State Storage.
I tried reinstalling OSX the other day but followed the guide slightly wrong so it wouldn't boot, and decided I'd stick with Ubuntu anyway.
- £130 includes the laptop itself.orrinward
- nicescarabin
- Ubuntu is awesome!Hombre_Lobo
- johnny_wobble0
it wasn't a perfectly smooth install. it froze a couple of times, it rebooted when it wasn't supposed to once and caused problems, a couple of times it's had no keyboard or mouse control after rebooting...
the power supply problem was like this:
I put everything together, plugged it in and pushed the power button. the lights on the motherboard flashed and then nothing. so I start unplugging things and seeing if it'll run. first with no sata drives hooked up and only 1 stick of ram and it runs fine, got video, bios screens, keyboard, etc. hooked them both back, nothing. hooked only the sata dvd drive up and turned it on, it runs and is ready to boot from my iboot boot disc, but no hd to install to. hooked up just the sata hd, runs fine and sees the hd, but no OS. so it's gotta be the power supply, but is it bad or too small? according to research, it's big enough. I unplug everything, plug it all back in and the fuckin' thing runs! both drives. ok, boot from iboot, swap out for retail cd, it's starting to install... then I get the gray screen that says "you must turn your computer off" or whatever. I'm still thinking it's gotta be the power supply, so I go buy a bigger one today, plug it in and everything powers up. it didn't take long to install after that.i'm not sure if sleep is working or if the mouse and keyboard problem is gone yet or if it's only after restarting or powering down or a hard reset with the power button? I only have the power button hooked up right now, so I need to hook up the rest of the front panel wiring before closing it up, hopefully the front usb ports work. I need to research opening up stuff on the motherboard like usb3 and sata 6gig ports for the future.
if this thing stays stable, I can always stick an i5 or i7 cpu in it and some more ram.
apparently the way to see if you have full video acceleration is by adding a new widget in dashboard, if you get trippy wripples around it when adding, your video is good. mine does that, so I guess video is all good. looks good to me.
- and that's why it's so cheap...betelgeuse
- and the cheap part makes it worth the trouble to me. *shrug*johnny_wobble
- Not cheap. But smart In the future will by the blueprint and build it themselves.VikingKingEleven
- Sounds like a pain in the arse. Alright though if your time isn't worth muchanimatedgif
- kalkal0
Well, I now have a mackintosh.
Rather unwittingly really, just built a new AMD pc and wondered if it'd work. Never has before for me.
Works great though! Typing this on Mavericks now. Looking forward to upgrading to Yosemite.
NZXT case (Not bad for a PC case imo)
Asus SABERTOOTH 990FX
AMD 8350fx BE @ 4ghz 8 cores
8GB 1600mhz (will likely upgrade to 16GB)
AMD R9 270x 4GB
2x120gb Samsung EVO's
2x Samsung M8 1TB
- akrok0
woop, woop. status updates? any new builders. etc.
- sem0
New barebone systems from Intel are giving you an i5, 16gb DDR3 Ram, SSD HD and USB 3.0 for stupid money AND its fucking tiny!
http://www.intel.com/content/www…Check out the Brix I & II though, if they can run OSX they will be the ones to get, i7 and the II is said to have a built in projector?!
- animatedgif0
"your wireless keyboard and mouse dongles"
Christ... dongles... in 2013
- vaxorcist0
My Hackintosh is very solid, Q6600 + gigabyte MD, etc...
but it won't run Hasselblad Phocus and certain other apps....
- orrinward20
Nothing fancy here. I've converted a bunch of Dell D630's into Hackbooks.
I got a lot of 4 recently for £200. They were all 4GB RAM, 320GB 7200 HDDs running the Intel (not faulty NVIDIAs) chipset with 2.2GHz Core 2 Duos. Using MyHack and the EDPs from MyHack they're a straight install for everything running (including QE and CI) with the exception of hibernate-on-lid close. Flipped them on Gumtree for £290 each.
No hardware changes. No BIOS changes. £800 profit for just installing an OS on 4 machines :D
- Sadly the 2 I already had and ran were NVIDIA's, and 1 of them has gone kaputt.orrinward2
- nice!scarabin
- _niko0
- Don't really care...kalkal
- And in a lot of instances it drives a lot better than a Ferrari. It's like getting a more powerful kit car :Pkalkal
- Yeah, better doesn't always means faster, but when something breaks and you already know how to fix it, it is.kalkal
- are you honestly suggesting apple is anything like ferrariscarabin
- no, I'm saying Ferrari is like Apple :)_niko
- but seriously, is there another computer company that cares so much about form and design?_niko
- there are tons of companies that make faster, more powerful cars but how many look as nice as a ferrari? form and function._niko
- and you can argue that Ferrari has to compete with lambroghini, Porche, buggati, ect, who is apple's competition?_niko
- Dell? samsung? asus? they are as far from a ferrari as you can get.
Despite its shortcomings, apple stands alone i think._niko - ...stands alone I think.
Just my opinion, don't want to get into a mac vs debate. Plus I have a hacintosh as well._niko - i see your point but i do take pride in the form of my hackintosh :)scarabin
- its a computer; a tool — who gives a shit about ‘form and design’ in aesthetic terms?detritus
- comparing macs to ferrari...
fanboyism, not even onceGeorgesII
- Julesvm0
@noneck - your setup looks very sweet, and has got me thinking of replacing my 5 year old mac pro. Do you have a parts list, and would you be willing to share?
- ideaist0
I'm just chiming in to say my 12-core Mac Pro is astoundingly fast and as it was a business expense it was quite affordable considering my increase in productivity.
These are the only tools we need to create, edit, etc. so spoil yourselves; hackintosh or Macintosh...
- vaxorcist0
For my hackintosh (Q6600, made almost 2 years ago)
I have found that I had to get a USB sound stick on ebay for $5
and a USB wifi reciever, both worked once I got the right drivers for the wifi reciever...