Building your own Mac?
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- Ironmonkey
I dont know why the thought never crossed my mind. But recently I was talking with a computer savvy person who mentioned he had just built one.
Although it wont look as snazie as one from Apple, from doing a little research i've found you can build one for half if not a quarter of the price, with better performance!
Has anyone ever endeavored into such a thing?
- deathboy0
be cheaper
- ernexbcn0
I think it's not worth the hassle, if you want to deal with hacked versions of OS X for it, otherwise I'd just install Windows 7 on the thing.
- randommail0
People build their own PCs all the time.
I wonder why it's not so much with Macs.
- meffid0
I've rebuilt one I found. Easily done.
- acescence0
factor in all the time you'll spend putting it together, getting the OS running, and then hacking away at it every time the OS needs an update and it's not quite as cheap as it seems. unless your time is worth nothing and you have nothing better to do.
- the community behind the osx project has made it simple to install and everything you mentioned isn't hard to do.dorf
- sure, it's not that hard, but I can spend the hours I'd put into it working and make more money than I'd save by building it myselfacescence
- ..myselfacescence
- dont talk when you havent try itspraycan
- oh shut up you clownacescence
- Miguex0
if you are set on doing it, just do it.
not many people do it, but that doesn't mean its impossible right?
- ukit0
Why not just invent your own computer? Quit being a wuss.
- airey0
at least the time you spend will be useful for future ... ahh. shit. no. can't see the point really.
- acescence0
this guy builds machines with exactly the same hardware so it'll run without hax, much cheaper too...
- seems legiternexbcn
- this is more what i was going for.Ironmonkey
- holy crappy site, but really nice prices, I'm willing to bet the macs wont be in the nice aluminum towers, but its not about that, its about speed and reliabilitymoldero
- about speed and reliabilitymoldero
- ide give it a shot if i didnt just buy another mac pro with 12gb ram only to find out my currentmoldero
- mac only needed a fuckin new hard drive. FUCK. now I have 2, completely unnecessary.moldero
- ukit0
^ seems like quite a deal at first glance. what's the catch?
- soynutz70
If you price the parts out on newegg, its around $1200 depending on which motherboard they use, and case, power supply. Could be even cheaper.
- akrok0
mac pro case (around $200)
http://cgi.ebay.com/Apple-Case-M…- can't fit the motherboard and stuff in. layed out differentlysoynutz7
- prophet0
g5 case $40
http://cgi.ebay.com/Apple-G5-Alu…
- dorf0
installing osx on non-apple hardware isn't as hard as it seems. The installation is quite easy. Certainly, there are minor tweaks that have to be done once installed and some minor features may not work - i.e - sleep. Some of this depends on the hardware though.
- so, if i buy a retail osx cd. it could work?akrok
- you need the right combo of hardware, plus maybe a patch here and theresoynutz7
- look up osx86 project you'll have all the info you need.dorf
- The motherboard is probably the biggest challenge.Continuity
- Hombre_Lobo0
Yeh i downloaded Snow leopard OS X but never got round to installing it.
there are many methods to get os x on a system, distributions of you will.
tweaks are often needed for wifi, audio and other specific features.
- fooler20
think cheaper
- PIZZA0
completely defeats the point