hackintosh build
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- akrok0
Are most of the intel i5 or i7 cpu/processor - 64-bits? i looked at newegg and only 3 was listed as 64-bits.
- 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
- akrok0
woop, woop. status updates? any new builders. etc.
- akrok0
WD - Caviar Green vs. Caviar Black.
thoughts?
- Why would you want the slower one?detritus
- http://www.techpower…albums
- bingo! make sense.akrok
- scarabin0
they break out several super affordable builds here. just order the parts and follow the directions.
- zoozoo0
not bad akrok, what about with a SSD?
- add 70 to 160 bucks for a 120GB SSD. >> http://eshop.macsale…akrok
- that if you remove the 1TB. which cost around 100 - 140.akrok
- dorkKn1ght0
Did this for my airport card, works flawlessly.
http://bit.ly/tpDYxX
- scarabin0
i can't complain. i ended up getting a hacked wireless card off ebay
- section_0140
I've had the same one for 4 years and it still runs like a champ. Using it strictly for music production.
- akrok0
how's it going with the hackintoooosh!
- mine's still fine.johnny_wobble
- good to hear.akrok
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- vaxorcist0
I had to use a $5 USB soundcard on my hackintosh..... got it on ebay
- akrok0
^
awesome.
- scarabin0
so here's my setup.
i had some hardware troubles (i received a defective motherboard which blew out my CPU, had to replace those) which put the project on hold for a while, but once i got the beast up and running installing OS X was a simple thing. my entire build was compatible with kakewalk http://kakewalk.se so i went that direction instead of iboot like i had planned. i bought a hard copy of snow leopard but ended up using a pirated version of lion and installed everything off a thumbdrive.
right now everything is running smoothly except when i first boot up i have wacom driver problems and sometimes have to reinstall them. graphics look good, haven't tested sound yet.
- oh yeah, and opted to not overclock as i don't really need itscarabin
- also there are some builds on that kakewalk site that are pre-vetted and are super cheap to put together. definitely worth checking out if you're at all interested in a new macscarabin
- checking out if you're interested in a new macscarabin
- Sweet. Mine's still running fine. Gonna try updating it soon.johnny_wobble
- holy shit. 32GB ram. lol.akrok
- 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
- err0
anyone running 10.7?
- pr20
anyone does heavy video editing here on one of those with FCP?
- kalkal0
Wouldn't it be a hilarious at this point if there was some terrible incompatibility with the hardware chosen and osx86? :)
- not really. bet he checked it all out.johnny_wobble
- All the parts have been vetted by others, it'll work :)scarabin
- Only if you're a bitter cunt.orrinward